2018 FINALISTS
FICTION
Michael Alessi's "The Flat" from Okay Donkey
Sarah Boudreau's "The Birdhunter" from Little Fiction | Big Truths
Alexa Brahme's "Something Like Drowning" from Pigeon Pages
Leesa Cross-Smith's "Little Doves" from The Offing
E.G. Cunningham's "Women and Children" from Fugue
Emily Devane's "The Word Swallower" from Ellipsis Zine
Angie Ellis's "Sequins" from Passages North
Annie Frazier's "All of Us Animals" from Longleaf Review
Ephiny Gale's "In the Beginning, All Our Hands are Cold" from Syntax & Salt Magazine
Megan Giddings's "A Husband Should Be Eaten and Not Heard" from Split Lip Magazine
Sara Kachelman's "The Rapist's Dog" from Your Impossible Voice
Maria Kuznetsova's "Light Year" from Kenyon Review
Joanna Lee's "Prawn Mee" from Cha
Raven Leilani's "How to Smile" from Pigeon Pages
L.L. Madrid's "Ephemeral Girls" from The Coil
Evan Marcey's "Borges' Aleph" from Duende
Jolene McIlwain's "Drumming" from The Cincinnati Review
Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor's "Boy" from Smokelong Quarterly
Claire Oleson's "The After-Dog" from Bridge Eight Press
Dayna Patterson's "Contents" from Whale Road Review
Eleanor Pearson's "Mirror Images" from Syntax & Salt Magazine
Kristen Ploetz's "Lifecolor Indoor Latex Paints® – Whites and Reds" from jmww
Michelle Ross's "Why Science Lessons that Involve Potatoes Give Me Grief" from Threadcount Magazine
Grace Singh Smith's "Oshini" from The Tishman Review
Brandon Taylor's "Grace" from The Rumpus
Cathy Ulrich's "Wobble of Ostriches" from Blue Fifth Review
NONFICTION
Ellen Adams's "Military Coup Matching Quiz" from Kenyon Review
Ruby Al-Qasem's "The Girls" from The Baltimore Review
Mary Margaret Alvarado's "On Memory with No Devices" from Cagibi
Krys Malcolm Belc's "Check My ID" from The Adroit Journal
Brian Broome's "God Don't Like Ugly" from Hippocampus Magazine
Harrison Fletcher's "Identity Theft" from JuxtaProse
Marcos Gonzalez's "Pedro Full of Grace" from Black Warrior Review
Lawrence Lenhart's "How to Talk Dlak Thooted-Therret" from Quarterly West Review
T.S. Mendola's "Rivers of Babylon: The Story of a Third-Trimester Abortion" from The Rumpus
Abby Minor's "Rooms" from Contrary Magazine
Carley Moore's "My Big Gay Essay" from Aster(ix) Journal
Celina Nader's "Little Things" from Anomaly
Artemis Spyridonidis's "Clash of the Titans" from Noble / Gas Qtrly
Sheryl St. Germain's "The Light of Who We Are" from Iron Horse Literary Review
Jessie van Eerden's "What I Want Your Voice to Do" from Blackbird
POETRY
Destiny Birdsong's "To the Black Virgin Mary on a Steeple in Greensburg, PA" from Split This Rock
Mary Block's "I Want Some Land" from SWWIM
Kayleb Rae Candrilli's "Someday I'll Love Myself See-Through" from Radar Poetry
Sarah Carson's "Ode to the White Boy Who Takes Me to Williams Sonoma" from The Baltimore Review
Dorothy Chan's "Revenge of the Asian Woman" from The Boiler
Tiana Clark's "Tim" from Frontier Poetry
Hannah Cohen's "Superficial" from Cease, Cows
Sandy Coomer's "Calligraphy" from Mud Season Review
Qurat Dar's "Apples" from The /tƐmz/ Review
Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton's "Death is Not a Riddle" from Under a Warm Green Linden
Deirdre Fagan's "Outside In" from Nine Muses Poetry
Asha Futterman's "halloween in college" from Anomaly
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's "The Tale of Called Magic" from Moonchild Magazine
Ximena Gómez's "Last Day (Último Día)” from Cagibi
torrin a. greathouse's "On Examination/Dereliction" from Duende
Hedy Habra's "Or Do Memories Go Through Our Children Like Thread Through a Needle?" from Peacock Journal
Samuel Hughes's "Landscape with Human Figures" from Rust + Moth
Christina Im's "Blank Theory" from Counterclock
Umang Kalra's "neon lights and other signs of modernity" from The Brown Orient
Steven Karl's "Untitled Blue #6" from Dream Pop Journal
Megan LeAnne's "Passing" from Screen Door Review
Sheila Maldonado's "temporary statement" from Aster(ix) Journal
Francisco Marquez's "My Father Takes Me to Baseball to Straighten Me Up" from Brooklyn Poets
Caits Meissner's "Loving the Enemy" from Split This Rock
Brandon Melendez's "American Boy Shares Death Metal with His Abuelo" from Lunch Ticket
Briana Naseer's "Autonomy" from Up the Staircase Quarterly
Alan C. Palaez's "sick in 'america'" from Vinyl
Vivian Faith Prescott's "White Reindeer's Skull in the Sky" from Sheila-Na-Gig online
Linette Reeman's "The Mirror in My University's Weight Room Speaks to Me, in Two Parts" from Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Rae Rival's "Tiempo Muerto" from Cha
Alison C. Rollins's "Public Domain" from TriQuarterly
Danez Smith's "fat one, with the switch" from The Fight & the Fiddle
Patricia Smith's "What Breath Gives Back #19" from The Fight & the Fiddle
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez's "Last Night in Antsville" from Okay Donkey
Ashley Underwood's "Whale Watch" from 3Elements Review
Joanna C. Valente's "The Afterlife is a Room Full of Windows You Are Trying to Avoid" from Cotton Xenomorph
Emily Vizzo's "in good conscience he was unable to recommend a panama canal of any kind" from Foundry
Bonnie Rae Walker's "What I Would Like to Do with Donald Trump" from Drunk Monkeys
Kami Westhoff's "Wake and Wonder" from Sweet Tree Review
Jenny Xie's "Visual Orders, Indwardly" from Kenyon Review
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