Sierra Dickey is our very first winner of the Looky Here Magazine Short Story Contest! You can read her story, “Stick in the Mud” in Looky Here Magazine: Issue 3 at our RELEASE SOIRÉE at noon on Saturday 12/7 at Looky Here!
Sierra Dickey is a writer, educator, and organizer living in Great Falls. Her reporting and creative works have been published in Prism Reports, Shadowproof, Talk Poverty, Modern Farmer, Adroit Journal, Barrelhouse, and more. Sierra’s research interests include queer, material, and third world feminisms, the environmental humanities, and police and prison abolition. Sierra has taught writing and journalism at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, the Community College of Vermont, and Looky Here. She is presently at work on a book about new women’s prison projects in New England. Gemini sun, Taurus rising.
photo credit: Alexis Hott
2024 Looky Here Short Story Finalists:
Easton Smith – “Van Dyke”
Easton Smith’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, The Sonora Review, The Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his partner, his friends, and three beautiful chickens.
Mo Schweiger – “The Cat and the Suitcase”
Mo Schweiger is a writer and comedian based in Western Mass. They are the co-creator of Ha Sof Ba (The End is Near) satire magazine, half of the brain behind Mandy Mudballs, The Montague Reporter’s premiere satire love columnist, a co-producer of Far Out! Comedy Festival, and a lover of collaboration, clearly. Mo is currently working on an absurdist transgender screenplay titled Baker’s Boy and programming a storytelling theater as part of A Happening: Leviathan, Eggtooth Productions’ immersive multi-arts festival.
Rebecca Rideout – “Missing Merle”
Soaking in nature textures, staring at walls, and moving her bones are just a few passions Becca has when not making documentary films, doing paid work for capitalism, or parenting her skin and her fur baby. Other interests include trying to grow things and make plant medicine, thinking about parallel dimensions, and talking about ghosts.