Contest News
2026
Congratulations to the winners and finalists for our 2026 contest! Look out for their work in the 2026 Prize Issue (to be published in Summer 2026).
Genevieve Abravanel
"The School for Frozen Children”
Fiction Winner
Alex Bisker
"Onset”
Clara Mundy
“Riverbed”
Fiction Finalists
Julia Cirillo
“Reveries: Or 26 Images of My Birth Mother for Every Year I’ve Never Known Her”
Nonfiction Winner
Susanna Space
"A Brief History of the Unspecified”
Nonfiction Finalist
Daniel Lurie
"Still Life with Dead Boys”
Poetry Winner
Veronica Bettencourt
"Fog Catcher”
Rebecca Boyle
“If Nothing Else, I’m a Good Person to Take to Ruins”
Cory Brown
“On Memory”
Sara Cooper
“Ice Over”
Kate DeLay
“Death Rattle”
Carlina Duan
“Yearbook”
Tammy Greenwood
“Alabaster Effigies”
Caroline Laganas
“When I Bite Into a Tomato”
Abigail McFee
“Heat”
Rodrick Minor
“We The Bean Eaters”
John Muellner
“Rabbit Hour”
Paige Passantino
“Baltimore Brides”
Liza Rose
“She-Demon”
Lisa Rosinsky
“Midrash of the Acupuncturist”
Nicole Stander
“Scurvy”
QQ Yang
“American Dream”