2008

Many thanks to judge Cristina Henriquez for her time and efforts in choosing the top three winners.  The winning stories and the two Editor's Choice stories are available to read in the Fall 2008 issue.

First prize - $1,000
Marc Nieson, Pittsburgh, PA - "The Last Hours of Pompeii"

Second prize - $750
L. Annette Binder, Los Angeles, CA - "Mourning the Departed"

Third prize - $500
Elizabeth Baines, Didsbury, Manchester, UK - "Used to Be"

Two Editor's Choice prizes - $250 each
Sung J. Woo, Washington, NJ - "Limits"
Julie Eill, Alexandria, VA - "Cooling"

SHORTLISTED STORIES

Margaret Rodenberg - "Mrs. Morrisette"
Michael Schiavone - "No One Comes Up Here By Accident"
Michael Schiavone - "For Those Who Have Also Dared"
Paul Vidich - "Home Theater"
Amelia Beamer - "The Cat, Kicking"

About the Judge

Cristina Henriquez is the author of Come Together, Fall Apart, a collection of short stories and a novella.  Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and AGNI.  She was featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of "Fiction's New Luminaries."  She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.  More information is available at www.cristinahenriquez.com.

2007

Many thanks to judge Ben Fountain for his time and efforts in choosing the top three winners.  The winning stories and the two Editor's Choice stories are available to read in the Winter 2007 issue.

1st Place, $1000 Prize
AC Koch - "Agashi"

2nd Place, $500 Prize
Julia Gordon-Bramer - "Summit"

3rd Place, $250 Prize
Liz Skillman - "One Hundred Santas"

Editor's Choice Awards, $50 Prize each
Marc Phillips - "Different Than Any Day So Far"
Kami Westhoff - "The Ways You Are Gone"

SHORTLISTED STORIES

Lauren Faulkberry - "The Fire Eater"
Deivis Garcia - "Word is Bond"
Andrew Howard - "The Pull, The Weight"
Michael Schiavone - "The Kind You Can't Take Aspirin For"
Midge Raymond - "Lost Art"
Sally Bellerose - "The Summer of '68"
Steve Young - "Wasps"
James Sievert - "The Man Who Would Sing"

About the Judge

Ben Fountain's fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, Harper's, and The Paris Review.  He is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize and two Pushcart Prizes.  His short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, earned him the 2007 PEN/Hemingway Award for distinguished first book of fiction.