Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered Diverse Voices this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received.
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We are thrilled to advance entries to the Semifinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing. Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on January 15th!
Without further ado, the Spring 2022 Diverse Voices Semifinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| A Nasty Habit | Sadie Fearon |
| An Ideal Wife | Sarah Knight |
| Ask Already | Sandra Lince |
| Ben Johnson Day | Kerena Marchant |
| Billie & Sadie | OShea Myles |
| Blitz | Levena Ostergaard |
| Blue | Andres Valentin Lopez |
| Calls From Home | Laura DeBar |
| Cayenne and Dee | Laura LeeLun |
| Cream City | Jeffrey James Keyes, Matt W. Cody |
| Daddy’s Little Girl | Rob Poquez |
| Dead Mom Friend Summertime Fun Club | Alex Walker |
| Dig | David Vieux |
| Doing Business As | TOM KUHL |
| Elevate | Emma and Dustin Bates and Castleberry |
| Eulogy | Andi Avery |
| Feminoid | Alexandria Lane |
| Fireflies | Michael Chen |
| Five With A Bullet | Christopher Isenegger |
| Good Things | Scott Button |
| GREEN WARS | WARREN CLARKE |
| HEAVEN | John McPhaul III |
| I Am Bruce Lee | Erin Falconer |
| I am the Dragon King | Michael Choi |
| IN THE AESTHETIC OF DESMOND | D.K. UZOUKWU |
| Karachi Vice | Faisal Qureshi |
| Kingdom of Ivory Coast | Sean Davis |
| L.A. | Jillian Ibarra |
| Liberty City | Jessy Lauren Smith |
| Lucha | Danny Cavada Montenegro |
| Made in USA | Desdemona Chiang |
| Meet Me in a Dark Alley | Jessy Lauren Smith |
| My Best Friend’s Love Story | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| My Daughter Maya | Sarah McCulley |
| Mystic | Cody Ashford & Eric Vue |
| No More Allies. | Pierce Livingston |
| O.T.i.S. | K.J. Sparrow |
| Out Again | Raye Schiller |
| POLYDACTYLY | Joni Rodgers |
| PSYCHO FREE | Amy Blackwelder |
| PULP | Ann Lu |
| Reaching for Rye | Andrew Guerrero |
| Rearranged | Sajini Subaskaran |
| Release | Stacie Shellner |
| Reparations | Marilynn Loveless |
| Roopa and The Bloobs: Pandemmy Blizzy | Gilani Sumida-Moiseff |
| Storme | John Lowe |
| The Adventures of Catfish & Zombie Tom | Evan Kuykendall |
| The Bermuda Shipwreck | Eric Murphy |
| The Brimstone Guild | Alex Hurt II |
| The Devil and Dick Gregory | Sean Slater |
| The Free World | Marcus Thomas |
| THE GRIND | FV Everleigh |
| THE KING OF COLORED TOWN | Darryl Wimberley |
| The Vampire Prince | Kyle Hinton |
| This Is How You Lose Her – Pilot | Luis G. Santos |
| To Be American | Laura Lujan |
| To Heck With It! | Teddi Shaffer |
| Tom Boy | Cameron Tendaji |
| Under The Moon | Ari Silver |
| Wanderland | Blake Williams |
| We Are Still Here | Phoenix Rivera |
| We Good | Keisha Prince |
| WE WERE ONCE | Rebecca Stahl |
| Weigh In | Rudy Bamenga |
| Welcome to the Sovereign Nation of Kasovia (pop. 57) | Diogo Beltran |
| When Joey Met Gemma | Britt Wilkinson |
| X/WIND | Richard Pohl |
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