Writing Awards 50
Yannick Thoraval of Victoria, Australia for “Learning to Die and Live: 24 Hours in Evacuation”
Yannick Thoraval is a writer, teacher and communications consultant. He holds a masters degree in history, a PhD in creative writing and teaches professional writing and editing at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Yannick has written two novels and has published nonfiction work in national publications. www.yannickthoraval.com
Robyn Carter of San Francisco, California for “Excelsior”
Robyn Carter’s writing has appeared in Prime Number, Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, West Branch, Colorado Review, NanoFiction, and other journals. She serves as a San Francisco WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence at a public school in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
— FINALISTS —
POETRY
Coming Soon!
FICTION
Coming Soon!
FLASH FICTION
Melissa Bowers
Gilroy, California
“Our Voices Echo”
Myna Chang
Potomac, Maryland
“Air So Thick”
Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Endicott, New York
“Turtles”
Jane Copland
Berkshire, United Kingdom
“A Trading Post on the 117th Meridian West”
Colleen Corbett
Saint Louis, Missouri
“Getting Out of Jail Free”
Hannah Faver
Hampshire, United Kingdom
“Mud”
Catherine Fehre
New York, New York
“She”
Hannah Fowler
Chicago, Illinois
“I want a haircut that will fix my life, please”
Libertad Garcia-Villada
Holly Springs, North Carolina
“The First Heroine”
Jim Gish
Arcanum, Ohio
“The Long Dark”
Tamar Jacobs
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
“If A Thing Is Trying To Eat You”
Bud Jennings
Salem, Massachusetts
“The Brain of the Black-Capped Chickadee”
Lindsey Pharr
Alexander, North Carolina
“Crazy Josh and the Perfume of Immortality”
Gary Powell
Cornelius, North Carolina
“The Geometry of Desire”
Vikram Ramakrishnan
Roslyn, New York
“Nothing Set in Stone”
Lee Reilly
Chicago, Illinois
“Sold”
Dutch Simmons
Wilton, Connecticut
“Solitary”
Steven Simoncic
Chicago, Illinois
“You Will Do This”
Will Woldenberg
Charlottesville, Virginia
“Pacifism is Not Something to Hide Behind”
Hannah Yang
Boulder, Colorado
“Vocabulary Lesson”
NONFICTION
Mary Petty Anderson
Seattle, Washington
“Newt Terrell”
Anthony D’Aries
Brookfield, Connecticut
“Memorial Day”
Ilona Duncan
Heathsville, VA
“The Little Crapaud”
William Fleeson
McLean, Virginia
“No Golden Man”
Ellen Graf
Cropseyville, New York
“A Line of Immeasurable Width”
Roger Martin
Lawrence, Kansas
“Birds of a Feather”
Dheepa Maturi
Carmel, Indiana
“A River Dance: Cauvery in Crisis”
Stephani E. D. McDow
Beltsville, Maryland
“A Letter to My Son”
Margarita Meyendorff
Rosendale, New York
“The Elephant Fall”
Faith Model
Cody, Wyoming
“When There is Hope”
Kirsten Oerke
Hastings on Hudson, New York
“Distancing”
Allen Price
Cranston, Rhode Island
“Running from Blackness”
N. R. Robinson
Charleston, South Carolina
“Our Dad”
Sarita Sarvate
Albany, California
“In the Cuckoo’s Nest”
Emily Seibert
Yonkers, New York
“Human Error”
Sarah Stuteville
Seattle, Washington
“No One Is Watching”
Lori Tobias
Newport, Oregon
“What About Yvonne?”
Jemma van Loenen
VIC, Australia
“Summer of Discontent”
Gerry Walker
Los Angeles, California
“10 Days Under The Anthill: Confessions of a Criminal Trial Juror”
R. S. Wynn
Dresden, Maine
“Release at Fox Point Lighthouse”
— Honorable Mentions —
POETRY
Coming Soon!
FICTION
Coming Soon!
FLASH FICTION
Tolu Adeyeye
Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
“The Attic”
Chad Broughman
Harbor Springs, Michigan
“True-south”
Madison Cilluffo
Oakton, Virginia
“January in Maine”
Clemintine Guirado
Mountlake Terrace, Washington
“Deception Pass”
James Hartman
York, Pennsylvania
“The Range of Acceptability”
Louise Hawes
Pittsboro, North Carolina
“Tipperary”
Susan Hettinger
Olympia, Washington
“Thaw”
William Huskey
Seattle, Washington
“Enduring Doubt”
Jennifer Laxton
Weston, Wisconsin
“Stories the Dying Tell”
Jay Nunnery
Madison, Wisconsin
“A Visitation”
Dutch Simmons
Sarasota, Florida
“Papa’s” Typewriter”
Josh Swiller
Spencer, New York
“Mild Case”
Wallace Taylor
Caledon, Ontario
“Inconceivable”
Robert Walton
King City, California
“One Stone”
Herbert Zarov
Northbrook, Illinois
“The Ceremony”
NONFICTION
Marcus Carbo
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Incognegro”
Bea Chang
Redondo Beach, California
“Homesick Island”
Kira Compton
Sunnyside, New York
“Summer in East Boston”
Elizabeth Flinn
Kapaau, Hawaii
“The Monarch”
Geoffrey Kent Graves
Laguna Beach, California
“The Philtrum”
Susannah Israel
Oakland, California
“The Storyteller’s Children”
Jeffrey Kass
Denver, Colorado
“Twenty-Four Inches”
Michael Mack
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“The Year After High School”
Kat McNichol
Ontario, Canada
“What You Remember about Your Wedding Day”
Joan Merriam Merriam
Nevada City, California
“Whispers of a Forgotten Plague”
Rebekah Morris
Grand Rapids, Minnesota
“Laugh Lines”
Phoebe Pan
Irvine, California
“All the Voyage of Life”
Ellen Ronan
Bend, Oregon
“My Mother’s Stone”
Anne Rudig
Torrington, Connecticut
“Read To Me”
Alice Silberling
Omaha, Nebraska
Pretty Strong