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Best Emerging Writers Anthology: April 10 – June 8, 2025
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New Voices: “Will You Listen to Me, Please?” by Emily Collins
April 28, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024
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April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: Introduction by Gina Chung
Best Emerging Writers 2024
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April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “Fermentation” by Jacqueline Gu
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April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “In Praise of the Collective Noun” by Beth Richards
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “Postictal State” by Margaret Adams
April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “Driftwood” by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “SeaWorld” by Aurora Huiza
April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “Disfigured: An Essay” by Emilie Pascale Beck
April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “(Other Mother.)” by River Lucero
April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “The Real Boys of Summer” by Jillian Weiss
April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “My Own True Name” by Vicky Grut
April 14, 2025
Best Emerging Writers 2024: “Blades of a Feather” by Laura Price Steele
April 14, 2025
Summer Short Story Award 1st Place: “Leaving Paradise” by Kimberly Blaeser
March 31, 2025
Summer Short Story Award 2nd Place: “Coup de Grâce” by Blaire Baily
March 24, 2025
Summer Short Story Award Honorable Mention: “Remembering Forget” by Sean Macgillicuddy
March 17, 2025
New Voices: “If I, He, They, She Had, Hadn’t, Had” by Allison Snyder
March 10, 2025
New Voices: “Never Rome” by S.G. Ondercin
March 3, 2025
New Voices: “Gnats” by Mark Bryk
February 24, 2025
New Voices: “A Mother’s Face is an Atlas that Leads You Home” by Howard Meh-Buh
February 17, 2025
Reprint Prize Winner: “You Are the Greatest Lake” by Greg Schutz
February 10, 2025
Reprint Prize Runner-Up: “Here We Are” by Robyn Allers
February 10, 2025
Reprint Prize Runner-Up: “Catch & Release” by Larry Flynn
February 10, 2025
New Voices: “The Pick” by Emma Pacchiana
February 3, 2025
New Voices: “Black Walnut” by Danielle Claro
January 27, 2025
New Voices: “The Wound” by Josephine Wu
January 13, 2025
New Voices: “A Mirror for the Dead” by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
January 6, 2025
New Voices: “At Mr. Ed’s Grave, Outside Tahlequah, Oklahoma” by Christopher Chilton
December 9, 2024
New Voices: “Quantifying the Dent of Bob” by Andrea Bishop
December 2, 2024
New Voices: “The T-Bone” by Shantell Powell
November 18, 2024
New Voices: “The Nightwatchman” by Franz Jørgen Neumann
November 11, 2024
Featured Flash Contest Winner: “Hurmë” by Melanie Simonich
October 28, 2024
Featured Flash Contest Winner: “The Increasingly Unfortunate Circumstances Which Have Led Me To Wave You Off The Highway” by Austin Tucker
October 21, 2024
Featured Flash Contest Runner Up: “Define: Business as Usual” by Kim Ravold
October 14, 2024
Featured Flash Contest Runner Up: “The Beak” by Robbie Herbst
October 7, 2024
New Voices: “Treatment-Resistant” by William Hawkins
September 30, 2024
Winter Short Story Award 1st Place: “The Sisters” by Angie Ellis
September 23, 2024
Winter Short Story Award 2nd Place: “Feu Follet” by Rebecca Meredith
September 16, 2024
Winter Short Story Award 3rd Place: “Linoleum People” by Eliza Gilbert
September 9, 2024
Winter Short Story Award Honorable Mention: “The Two Things Blassie Knows” by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
September 2, 2024
New Voices: “Flying Over the Wine-Dark Sea” by Logan Furlonge
August 26, 2024
New Voices: “Queen of Hearts” by L. Soviero
August 19, 2024
Novel Excerpt Contest 1st Place: “Back Line” by Raf Richardson-Carillo
August 12, 2024
Novel Excerpt Contest 2nd Place: “Curious Monster” by S. P. Donohue
August 5, 2024
Novel Excerpt Contest 3rd Place: “A Geology” by Virginia Lee Wood
July 29, 2024
Novel Excerpt Contest Honorable Mention: “The Natural World” by Amy Stuber
July 22, 2024
Novel Excerpt Contest Honorable Mention: “California Natives” by Kelly Anne Bonner
July 15, 2024
New Voices: “Adam’s Nose” by Dino Enrique Piacentini
July 8, 2024
New Voices: “Rest Stop 99” by Michelle Kicherer
June 24, 2024
Reprint: “Bridge Work” by Susan Straight
June 17, 2024
New Voices: “CHRISTMAS MARKETS, STRASBOURG, FRANCE” by Sheree Winslow
June 10, 2024
New Voices: “Don’t Smile” by Aaron Rabinowitz
June 3, 2024
New Voices: “The Unattended Moment” by Marcia Peck
May 20, 2024
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