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The Oval

The Oval is a literary magazine published annually by the Associated Students of the University of Montana, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and the Creative Writing Program of the University of Montana English Department. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual art.

Current Issue: Volume 16, Issue 1 (2023)

Full Volume

Front Matter

Title Page, Staff List, Editor's Note, Contents

Poetry

Who Feeds the Strays?
Lily Wages

Silver Dollar Bar
Caitlin Thompson

Look at Your Hands
A.C. Moore

Foxhole
Caroline J. Tuss

The Five Animals You Meet in Heaven
Josh Moyar

Maternal Gifts
Ashlee Dowling

In the Garden of Holy Death
Alex Andrews

Prose

Third Shot
Libby Riddle

Franglais
Shasta Hecht

The Green Sweater
Siena Cysewski

Train Days/Train Daze
Birch Reeves

Singularity
Abby Doss

Night on Bass Lake
Maja Holmquist

Siberian Winter
Maja Holmquist

I Am Not a Digital Creature: Vignettes on Love
Scout McMahon

Fulfillment
A.C. Moore

Visual Art

Mystics
Halley Linscheid

Charlie's
Walter Medcraft

Warped Introspection
Aubrey Frissell

Como Camas
Maja Holmquist

Fuck You Jeff Koons
Walter Medcraft

Pledge of Allegiance
Walter Medcraft

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Kaisha Gerhardt

Like Moths to a Flame
Kaisha Gerhardt

Morning on Bass Lake
Maja Holmquist

Love
Halley Linscheid

D.O.S.S.
Sebastian Ambriz

The Woman in the Mirror
Halley Linscheid

The Faces of Life
Aubrey Frissell

Contributors

Contributors, Honorable Mentions, Sponsors

Editors

Editor-in-Chief: Jade Taylor
Faculty Advisor: Robert Stubblefield