2012
BOLD indicates story was featured in Premium Edition.
| Name | Story Title | Accepted Publication |
| Susan Taylor Chehak | Just So | Folio |
| Andre Pace | Poetry | Eber & Wein Published Co. |
| Emma Ramos | Where The Children Play | BlazeVOX Online Journal |
| Kevin Clarkston | The Payback | Forge Journal |
| Zane Kotker | How're You Felling | Notre Dame Revieww |
| Thomas Brian | The Birds in the Wall | The Battered Suitcase |
| M M De Voe | The Champion | Bellevue Literary Press |
| Marcus Lund | A Sinfonia Do Circo | Brink Magazine |
| Robert Earle | With Her Ear Pressed to the Earth | 34th Parallel |
| Joseph Cavano | Story Cloth | Potomac Review |
| Shirley Golden | The False Moon | Grace Dieu Writers' Circle |
| Kate Scarpetta | The Puppy | The Coachella Review |
| Anthony Martin | Windswept | Nib Magazine |
| Gregory Koop | Jive Willie No-Nose | Nashwaak Review |
| William Locke Hauser | The Frog in the Window | Rosebud Magazine |
| William Locke Hauser | The 19-Year-Old Guitar Player | Down in the Dirt Magazine |
| William Locke Hauser | Dinh Van | AntiMuse Magazine |
| Raul Moreno | Cheesemonger | Otis Nebula |
| Lisa Mecham | You Get What You Get | The Drum Literary Magazine |
| Craig Rondinone | Six Seconds | Evening Street Review |