Touch Grass: Antelope Hill Writing Competition 2023

What motivates us to live life to the fullest, to engage in the real world beyond the all-encompassing technology of our modern age?

What began as a meme to address this question, “Touch Grass” has become the prompt for this year’s writing contest, drawing contributions from authors who have all shared a piece of themselves in response.

While some of the writings in this book address the prompt more literally with poems and short stories about nature, others focus on a variety of accomplish...