Announcing the Winners of the 2015 American Literary Review ​Awards

Read the winning entries in our current Spring 2016 issue

Fiction, judged by Garth Greenwell:

Winner: “Something Blue,” by Rebecca Foust
Runner Up: “House in the Woods,” Ronit Feinglass Plank
Finalists: “God is Love is Love is Love,” Sonya Larson
“Colors Only Birds Can See in Their Mating Rituals,” Judith Shaw
“Crossing the Commons,” H. E. Francis
Semifinalists: “Gone Means Gone,” Amanda McTigue
“The Panty Goblin,” Russell Working
“Ick,” Janna Brooke Cohen
“Home,” Jeanne Desy
“Missing Men,” Richard Jespers
“The Putin Resurrections,” Ree Davis

​Creative Nonfiction, judged by Jill Talbot:

Winner: “When We Were Vikings,” Kate Angus
Runner Up: “Language from Later Days,” Jessica Wilbanks
Finalists: “According to the Map,” Karen Palmer
“Osama bin Laden is Dead,” Samantha Tucker
Semifinalists: “Alpha and Omega,” Jeffrey Schneider
“Naming the Hurricane,” L. Lanser Rose
“Pieces/Parts: On ISIS, Coming Out, and A Country that Doesn’t Exist,” Tracy Fuad
“The Day You Find Out Your Uncle was Gunned Down,” Lis
Anna-Langston
“The Lines Between Genres are Terrifically Blurred,” Lori Soderlind

Poetry, judged by Gregory Fraser:

Winner: “Fog,” John Sibley Williams
Runner Up: “The Last Tasmanian Tiger,” Timothy McBride
Finalists: “Last Things,” Robert Huddleston
“The Harp Knows How to Be Stripped Bare,” Hannah Dow
“Transport,” Kim Garcia
“Still/Life,” Pamela Davis
“In My Wife’s Vegetable Garden,” Owen McLeod

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“Pink Still Life,” Meg Franklin. 2016