Congratulations are in order for Read Cook, author of “Bristol Palin is a Realtor,” winner of the 2025 Reprint Prize! Congratulations also to our runners-up, Judith Hannah Weiss and Charlie Watts. Their three pieces will be published in early 2026. Thank you so much to all of our submitters who made our third Reprint Prize such a success—and a round of applause for the final twelve writers on our shortlist!
Winner
“Bristol Palin is a Realtor” by Read Cook (first published in EPOCH)
Runners-up
“Mrs. Pomeroy’s Table” by Charlie Watts (first published in Storm Cellar)
“The Doctor Said” by Judith Hannah Weiss (first published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine)
Shortlist
“Contingency Plan” by Chris J. Bahnsen (first published in Tupelo Quarterly)
“The Side Effects” by Paul Curley (first published in The Missouri Review)
“The Closet Has Teeth” by Finn Deerhart (first published in The Audacity)
“What Lies in Store” by Laura Demers (first published in North American Review)
“Mine and the Other” by Robert Frankel (first published in Fatal Flaw)
“Skin” by Lena Fransham (first published in Overland)
“The Last Laugh” by M. Lea Gray (first published in Fractured Lit)
“Grief Maps” by Ashleigh Bell Pedersen (first published in The Mississippi Review)
“Maketh the Man” by Tessa Rossi (first published in Invisible City)
“Last Kiss” by Michelle Ruiz Keil (first published in Buckmxn Journal)
“FLAMETHROWER” by J.E. Sills (first published in Joyland)
“Toward a Tranquil Sea” by Jean Synodinos (first published in Everyday Fiction)