We’ll be publishing 16 total stories from this contest and we’re so excited about Judge Sara Lippmann’s choices! Thank you all for trusting us with your writing!
Grand Prize Winner: For a Short Time Only by Holly Burns
15 Finalists (in alphabetic order) are:
- Pairs by Jennifer Ahlquist
- possible future for our daughter #683 by Carly Alaimo
- Is Now and Ever Shall Be by Alex Bisker
- If we name it Mittens, can we please keep the food delivery bot, please? by Moisés Delgado
- We Mistakenly Think It Keeps Growing by Marilyn Hope
- Candied Lemon by Grace Kennedy
- Intertidal by Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch
- In All The Loveless Places by Jennifer McMahon
- My Mother, the Water Monster by Aeriel Merillat
- The Girl Made of Dirt by Dawn Miller
- Piel Muerta by Gabriella Navas
- Cheerful by G. Ochsner
- Four by Evan Ramzipoor
- Fullness by Payne Ratner
- Snagging Blanket by Abigail F. Taylor