PRECIOUS THINGS

Winner of the 2024 Cleaver Emerging Artist Award

“Precious Things” by A.L. Gordon was one of those submissions that wowed me by how unafraid and emotionally raw it is in its subject, while still being beautifully crafted in form. Gordon’s extended metaphor of the octopus is spot on, and it’s carried through the entire piece, woven in and out of the details of a parent’s love for a lost child: “no matter how many arms tried to keep you close you would have slipped away.” —Kathryn Kulpa, Flash Editor, Cleaver

Publications

Running Away- The Write Launch

Waiting in the Grass - ellipsis zine (ellipsis seems to be offline, this link goes to a pdf version of the writing).

Echoes- Please See Me

Circles - The Rappahannock Review

Precious Things - Cleaver Magazine, Winner of Cleaver Magazine's 2024 Emerging Artist Award

Moments of Change - The Awakenings Review (No online version available. Appears in FALL 2022 VOL. 9, NO. 2)

Holding On - Waccama - a journal of contemporary literature

PRECIOUS THINGS

Publications

Get in touch at gordon.tony@gmail.com