The results are in! Since this contest closed in June, we’ve been hard at work reading through the hundreds of wonderful reprints you all submitted. After tough deliberations, we’re pleased to announce Greg Schutz as this year’s winner, with “You Are the Greatest Lake,” first published in Sycamore Review in 2011. Congratulations also to Robyn Allers and Larry Flynn, whose stories were selected as runners-up. Our full shortlist can be found below. Stay tuned for news on next year’s contest—thank you once again for all your support!
Winner
“You Are the Greatest Lake” by Greg Schutz (first published in Sycamore Review)
Runners-up
“Here We Are” by Robyn Allers (first published in Flash Fiction Magazine)
“Catch & Release” by Larry Flynn (first published in West Branch)
Shortlist
“The Smallness of Asking” by Vincent Anioke (first published in Split Lip Magazine)
“Dhamma Talks” by Lauren Barbato (first published in Modern Language Studies)
“Muskeg” by Hillary Behrman (first published in The Madison Review)
“Second Person” by Christine Boyer (first published in Tahoma Literary Review)
“183” by Donald Carreira Ching (first published in StoryQuarterly)
“Family, Genus, Species” by Gabrielle Hovendon (first published in Arroyo Literary Review)
“Wax” by Scott Limbrick (first published in Griffith Review)
“Nesting” by Erin MacNair (first published in Prairie Fire)
“One More Time” by Dian Parker (first published in Westerly Magazine)
“O’HERLIHY (nee Noonan)” by Andrew Peters (first published in The Missouri Review)
“Colliding” by Julie Petrini (first published in CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women)
“The Space Above the Wardrobe” by Chris Wright (first published in the Belfast Book Festival’s Mairtín Crawford Awards)