SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

AUGUST 2015

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

A. Campbell for "On Fleek/Fleek On"

2nd-place winner:

Mary Kate Varnau for "Supernova"

3rd-place winner:

René Houtrides for "Senior Spring"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Suzanne Barnecut for "We'll Be Fine"
Nicola Cataldo for "Mayonnaise"
Kathy Conde for "A Family Alphabet"
Cora Cruz for "Material Conditions"
Melissa Fraterrigo for "Downer"
Diana Friedman for "Tempest"
Jonathan Frith for "Ham and Cheese (Everything Has Changed)"
Yen Ha for "Hidden Acts of Repair"
Rebecca Kantor for "All That You Hurl at the Moon"
Sam Katz for "Marco, Polo"
Dennis Lanson for "Eight Things to Do Before Flying to Africa"
R.B. Moreno for "Snap Box"
Lydia Paar for "Elegant Universe"
Nicole Pearce for "Hospital"
Jane Perry for "Little Pieces"
Laura Pierson for "Ash"
Thea Prieto for "Letter to Bug"
Jon Reiner for "Where You Are Tonight, Sweet Marie"
Celia Seupel for "Everything I Know"
Andrew Stancek for "Dreams of August"
David Yee for "Clean for Him the Ashes"
Bryan Young for "A Letter of Acceptance"

Honorable Mentions

Elizabeth Andrzejewski-Wilson for "Orange Sin"
Sho Araiba for "Alice and I"
Andrew Bode-Lang for "Love Letters from X"
Gerard Breitenbeck for "More in a Bit"
Paul Cioe for "Dance Lessons"
Leigh Clouse for "Quince"
Meryl Cohn for "Swimming"
Loretta Colton for "Jar of Pennies"
Sandra Cromey for "Browning Up Nicely"
Samuel Dinger for "Tree"
Laura Fanning for "The World Is Large"
Scott Gloden for "Operation"
Deavours Hall for "Hum"
Marina Hatsopoulos for "The Pivot"
Mackenzie Hoeckley for "Wild Geese"
Moye Ishimoto for "Greater Than One"
Scott Ki for "Advance Directive"
Brian Langston for "Peaches"
Ryan McCann for "Head Circles"
James McNulty for "Rats"
David Nelson for "Tusk"
Kimberly Ong for "This Is What It Is Like"
Abigail Putnam for "Committed"
Ann Quintano for "The Drain"
Karen Recht for "Make a Plan"
Marcia Stamer for "A Real Hero"
Benjamin Tedoff for "Symmetry"
Samuel Teeter for "Hear Me Out"
Aaron Zuckerman for "Disarmed Brothers"