Buckham Fine Arts Project is pleased to announce the finalists for the inaugural juried anthology: Rain & Rot.

​Selected Finalists for Publication:
Hazel Dehn-Shimniok, “I Know You” 
Tracee J. Glab, “Lady Wolverton's Collection”
Lauren Noelle Johnson, “The Stone”
Rachel Kitch, “Like Mother Like Daughter”
Meredith McGhan, “Fieldwork”
Melissa Neigh, “El Grillo and the Haunting of Brenda Chind”
Melissa Neigh, “Sacred”
Ronan Streby, “Why Does the Sun Sing?”
Eden Aurelia Thorpe, “Pretty White Dress”
Jenifer Fernandes Veloso, “A Maldição de Ambrosina (The Curse of Ambrosina)”

“Rain & Rot: Anthology” publication will be released on October 25, 2025 with an event held from 2 to 4 PM, with readings by many of the authors and reception at Buckham Gallery in Flint, Michigan.

Thank you to all the writers who participated in the call! 
Over the past few months, a panel of jurors have evaluated a number of technically accomplished and conceptually intriguing compositions for Buckham Fine Arts Project’s inaugural  Horror Anthology, with the final selection made by award-winning horror novelist and poet, Leslie J. Anderson. We are humbled by the breadth of works and trust in allowing us to view and consider your works. Thank you.

Winning selection, I know You, was written by Hazel Dehn-Shimniok of Sauk City, Wisconsin. Congratulations!!

About the Juror, Leslie J Anderson:
Leslie J. Anderson is a speculative poetry and fiction writer whose writing has appeared globally. Her debut novel, The Unmothers, won the Ohio Art Council's Individual Excellence Award in Fiction and was named as one of New York Times top books of 2024. She lives in an old, white house beside a historical cemetery with two good dogs, a small son, and a Roomba.