Writing Awards 60
Asher Black of Brooklyn, New York for “Supper with Witnesses”
Asher Black is a novelist of literary and cross-form fiction exploring moral conflict, loyalty, and identity under pressure. His short fiction has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Isele Magazine, and Eclectica. He has served as Chief Editor of MYTHOLOG and Managing Editor of The Green Man Review. He writes almost entirely outdoors between the Catskill Mountains watershed and Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, where Walt Whitman edited the Brooklyn Daily Eagle while composing Leaves of Grass.
J.P. Bellipanni of Cape Neddick, Maine for “The Curator of Forgotten Things”
J.P. Bellipanni has an M.A. in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.F.A in Writing from the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast. He has taught writing for twenty years, written a book of short stories, Slippery Devils: Collected Stories, and written three books about teaching writing: Word: Creative & Critical Composition, The Naked Story: A Concise Guide to Metafiction, and Fifty Stories: How to Read and Write Experimental Fiction.
— FINALISTS —
POETRY
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FLASH FICTION
Lisa Arrastia
Canaan, New York
“Hombre”
Zoe Daou
New York, New York
“Wash”
Adele Gallogly
Hamilton, Ontario
“To Make Blue Dough Right Before Dawn”
Jeannette Garrett
Houston, Texas
“Chemistry”
W.H. Hilf
Great Falls, Montana
“The Rider of Judith Gap”
Evan Hale
Toronto, Ontario
“The Moment”
James Hartman
York, Pennsylvania
“Watching the News”
Natasha Johnstone
Des Moines, Iowa
“Thrall”
James Hohenbary
Manhattan, Kansas
“Relevant Facts”
Elisa Celina Maiz
San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico
“Just for Show”
Tessa Murphy
Encino, California
“Refeeding Syndrome”
Baochi Nguyen
Berkeley, California
“Unbottled”
Dániel Levente Pál
Budapest, Hungary
“The Trimming”
Allie Pearce
Alexandria, Virginia
“Thumbs”
Kira Trainor
Pomfret Center, Connecticut
“The Drowning”
Ellen Tuckett
Stamford, Connecticut
“Above It All”
Korey Wallace
Des Moines, Iowa
“Somehow”
Neil Weiner
Portland, Oregon
“That Old Black Magic”
Daniel Woodruff
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
“Unnova”
Sandra Worsham
Milledgeville, Georgia
“Pleasure”
FICTION
Hal Ackerman
Los Angeles, California
“Mastodons”
Raymond Arcangel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“The Mocker”
Hanna Bahedry
Los Angeles, California
“Dark Opening”
Meagan Baker
New York, New York
“The Garden Shed”
Margaret Benbow
Madison, Wisconsin
“Joe Szabo and the Traveller Bride”
Catherine Browder
Kansas City, Missouri
“Tomato Man”
Anil Classen
Aeugst am Albis, Switzerland
“Snow Cranes”
Juliana Delany
Wenonah, New Jersey
“Cloudy, with a Second Chance”
Jaime Gill
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“The Drinking Game”
Jason Gipstein
Los Angeles, California
“Beatrice and Ingrid”
Kailey Haider
Chicago, Illinois
“The First Good Boy”
Marina Hatsopoulos
Boston, Massachusetts
“Feet Dangling in the Sea”
Nancy Kattenfeld
High Point, North Carolina
“Tin Plague”
Lindsay Kent
Moss Beach, California
“The Split”
Marianna Kokkinaki
New York, New York
“The Sea and the Maiden”
Deirdra McAfee
Henrico, Virginia
“Limitless”
Ellie Prusko
Somerville, Massachusetts
“The Watercolor Baby”
Patricia Sammon
Huntsville, Alabama
“Brother Wolf”
Morgan Smith
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“La Paloma”
Megan Trihey
Portland, Oregon
“His Dog Kitty”
NONFICTION
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— Honorable Mentions —
POETRY
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FLASH FICTION
Bruna Barbosa
Raleigh, North Carolina
“Inverted Flight”
Makynna Black
Blanding, Utah
“The Registrar”
Katherine Carlson
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Rising to the Occasion”
David Daniel
Baltimore, Maryland
“Dominion”
Julia Dinmore
Denver, Colorado
“God Is a Bean”
Dean Gessie
Midland, Ontario
“Monsters”
Emily Gierlich
West Bend, Wisconsin
“A Single Mother”
Ayli H
Groveport, Ohio
“Beautifully Psychotic”
Kevin Harris
Indianapolis, Indiana
“The Girl Who Lived”
Emily Alice Katz
Durham, North Carolina
“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Mother?”
Nasif Khan
Queens, New York
“Smoke Break”
Will Kirkland
Corte Madera, California
“The Martians Have Come”
Kathryn Russell
Decatur, Georgia
“Opening”
Elizabeth Sundstrom
Richmond, California
“Are We There Yet”
Rosalind Trotter
Eugene, Oregon
“It’s Got To Be Here Somewhere”
FICTION
Jazmyn Michelle Blackburn
Brooklyn, New York
“Past Saxon”
Julie Chagi
Scotts Valley, California
“The Camel”
Fletch Fletcher
Phoenix, Arizona
“Snorting Your Antidepressants”
Perry Genovesi
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Beside the White City”
Ben Hoffman
Long Island City, New York
“Of Your Life”
Ashish Kaul
Navi Mumbai, India
“Birds of Paradise”
Liam Keller
Toronto, Canada
“The Instant It Catches”
Deborah Levine
Hampden, Maine
“A Thousand Kisses Deep”
KC Luna
Chicago, Illinois
“The Calling”
Annie Montanus
Rollinsford, New Hampshire
“Casual”
Clare Rolens
San Diego, California
“Tidy”
Carwin Rose
Fayetteville, New York
“You Will Hear Her on the Wind”
William Sharkey
Hillsborough, North Carolina
“The Caveman”
Faith Shearin
Montgomery, Vermont
“The Kingdom of Childhood”
Claire Thomson
Nottinghamshire, Great Britain
“Human Resources”
NONFICTION
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