Writing Awards 59
JR Fenn of Rochester, New York for “Memory Box”
JR Fenn is from the Central Appalachians. Her work has appeared in many places, including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, and The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Joyce Carol Oates Prize in Fiction. She’s the author of Tiny Vessels, which won The Masters Review Chapbook Open and will be published in February 2026. She lives in Western New York with her family. Find more of her work at www.jrfenn.com.
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POETRY
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FLASH FICTION
Tim Baehr
Portland, Maine
“Waiting”
Chris Bauer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
“A Coupla Minutes”
Michelle Brady
Gaithersburg, Maryland
“Waiting for Bones the Tigers Left”
Myna Chang
Potomac, Maryland
“The Potential of Radio and Rain”
Ayla Dedeoglu
Lemont, Pennsylvania
“The Syringe”
Sierra Falconer
Santa Monica, California
“Rubberneck”
Jaime Gill
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“Waves Fall on All Shores”
Vienna Harvey
Norfolk, Virginia
“Vinny Chris Has No Teeth”
James Hohenbary
Manhattan, Kansas
“Relevant Facts”
Emmy Holman
Suttons Bay, Michigan
“Cry of the Cat”
Ashish Kaul
Navi Mumbai, India
“The Death of a Jokebook”
Timothy Lord
Bloomington, Illinois
“I Wanted to Be an SOB”
Ronald Marullo
Rome, New York
“A Sunday Satellite Sermonette”
Jay McKenzie
Chilcotts Grass, Australia
“What to buy your husband of thirty-seven years for his birthday”
Julie McNeely-Kirwan
Harrison, Arkansas
“The Many Wives of Johnny Nix”
Michele Nevard
London, England
“Liberation”
Zoe Ratches
Tigard, Oregon
“Wreckage”
Brenda Shoshanna
White Plains, New York
“Let’s Dance”
Nina Singh
Fairfax Station, Virginia
“Empty Space”
Adriana Stimola
West Tisbury, Massachusetts
“Casey on the Commute”
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— Honorable Mentions —
POETRY
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FLASH FICTION
Christina Bryan
Durham, North Carolina
“From the Grandmother’s Club”
Joe Cappello
Galisteo, New Mexico
“I Pray”
Kent Dixon
Springfield, Ohio
“Good Sport”
Marjory Faion
Caledon, Canada
“The Sentence”
Linda Hoagland
North Tazewell, New Mexico
“The Storm”
Camille Javal
Melbourne, Australia
“Highlands”
Mary Moreno
New York, New York
“Prince Charming”
Theresa Moritz
Toronto, Canada
“Hot Dog Wagon”
David Newkirk
Kansas City, Missouri
“Six Things the Shooter Took”
Valerie Oliver
Atlantic City, New Jersey
“Maria Magda”
Sara Raymond
Houston, Texas
“The Helicopter”
Reagan Ross
Los Angeles, California
“Disco Elysium”
Patricia Schultheis
Baltimore, Maryland
“The Script Reader”
Sara Shea
Weaverville, North Carolina
“Metamorphosis”
Cecilia Xue
Scottsdale, Arizona
“12 hours left of you”
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