2016 Winners

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8 years ago

2016 Contest Results

Boats, Bois de Vincennes, Paris – Roger Camp

We are thrilled to publish the winners and runners-up for our 2016 contest in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Congratulations to our winners and our sincere thanks to all who submitted to the competition!

Fiction
Winner:
Peanuts Aren’t Nuts
-Courtney Zoffness

Runner-up:
The Chinese General
-Peter Justin Newall

Judge:
Merritt Tierce, author, most recently, of the novel Love Me Back, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.

Finalists
Darién
-Carol Duran Quinn

Shondesh
-Jay Thumar

Poetry
Winner:
Psychotherapy
-sam sax

Runner-up:
Self-Portrait as Token, [Offering]
-Daniel T. O’Brien

Judge:
Melissa Kwasny, author, most recently, of the poetry collection Pictograph, a portion of which was the recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.

Finalists
How Exist
-Felicia Zamora

An Hour North of Lee Vining, California
-Michelle Bitting

On Forgetting My Tongue in Japan
-Martin Rock

Placeholders for a Father [Found During His Mother’s Funeral]
-Samantha Deal

Doomsday Book
-Denise Jarrott

Creative Nonfiction
Winner:
Essay Notes on Attachment Disorder
-Lara Lillibridge

Runner-up:
A Bedtime Story From Your Future
-Lisa K. Buchanan

Judge:
Charles D’Ambrosio, author, most recently, of Loitering: New and Collected Essays, and recipient of a Whiting Award.

Finalists
About Where You Come From
-Samantha L. Deal

A Pack a Day
-Betty Jo Buro

The Evolution of a Trigger
-Whitney Templeton