2017 Winners

Judge: 
​Josef  Novakovich, author, most recently, of the novel Tumbleweed, recipient of a Whiting Award and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. 

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Finalists
David Zoby – “Five-Bear Day”
Liz Howey – “The Boy”
Kathryn Takabvirwa – “Maria and the Other Man”

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Judge: 
​Pimone Triplett, author, most recently, of the poetry collection The Price of Light.

Finalists
Kelly Grace Thomas – “Boat/Body”
Kelly Grace Thomas – “Life/Boat”
Kelly Grace Thomas – “Half-Masted”
Samuel Piccone – “Black Velvet”
Kelly Hoffer – “Gladiolus Stem”
Katie Schmid – “Apple Glory”
Forester McClatchey – “The Attractive Ostrich”
Johnson Cheu – “Wail”

​Judge: 
Marcia Aldrich, author, most recently, of Companion to an Untold Story, winner of the 2011 AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction​.

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Finalists
Julialicia Case – “The Stories I Do Not Know For Sure”
Rachael Goldberg – “The Art of Disappearing”
Justin Hunt – “Cold War Prairie”
Debra Marquart – “Side by Side”
Martha Wolfe – “The Reluctant Sexton”
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