ELEVENTH HOUR LITERARY

ELEVENTH HOUR LITERARY ISSUE 1.1

Winter 2025

"The Swimming Hole" by Thomas Eakins, courtesy of Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Winner of the 2025 Inaugural Prose Contest

NANCY DREW & THE SECRET OF BOY ISLAND 

Libby Cudmore

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, R. RENEE BRANCA

"Gray Concrete Pathway Besides Pink Flower during Day"

WATER WHEEL
Heather Ostman

"Cozy Interior of a Traditional Village Home"

NEXT
Matthew Roberson

"Woman and Man Standing Beside Piles of Books"

SELF-HELP
Cynthia Miller Coffel

"An Empty Cinema" overlaid by "Illustration using Assorted Colors"

FANTASIA
Diana Abu-Jaber

"8 Electric Guitars Hanged on Brown Steel Bar"

WHAT WE CHOOSE TO REMEMBER
Joe Ponepinto

"White Metal Railings Near Swimming Pool"

WE’VE NAMED ALL THE STARS
Valli Jo Porter

"White and Pink Cherry Blossom Flowers in Bloom"

PLUM BLOSSOM IN THE DOWNLOADS
Beth Sherman

"A Woman Holding a Hearth Shape Red Paper"

PAPER HEART
Courtney Justus

Woman Drinking

HALF LIFE
Marcie Roman

GUEST ESSAY CONTRIBUTION

THE MORNING LINE + CODA

Jay Neugeboren

Issue Masthead

Editor-in-Chief

R. Renee Branca

Managing Editor

Ethan Knox

Fiction Co-Editors

Lauren Garnett

Amber Gates

Journal Board: Michelle L. Gardner, Sarah Ford, Doug Laura, Kaitlyn Bellettini, Joshua Chimene, Jacob Uzel

Cover Art by Jonathan Cohen

Submission Transparency

This issue received 139 submissions, for which we were honored to publish these 10, with a publication rate of 7.3%.