Announcing the winners of our 15th annual Flash Fiction Contest!
FIRST PRIZE
“Just Missed Ya” Carla Burns
SECOND PRIZE
“Prologue” Veronica Lucero
HONORABLE MENTIONS
“Winning Hearts and Flags” Natasha Stokes
“I Never Die” Seamus Scanlon
“Workforce” Mark Rosenblum
“I Clean the Church” James Bosley
The winning flashes will be published online in our next issue late this month.
Pushcart Prize nominations!
“The Mighty Light” Rachel Zeile
(Rachel's first published piece!)
“Just Missed Ya” Carla Burns
“The Neighbor” Lauren Oertel
“Sign of the Times: Lawton, Alabama 1943” Arnold Edwards
“Ambition” Robyne Richardson Lau
“Cottonwood Ward, Pontiac State Hospital” Michelle Morouse
Congrats and best wishes to the nominees!
14th Annual Poetry Open
Win $1,000 and publication for a single poem! As its name implies, this competition is open to anyone (writing in English) and is open to any style of poetry, any topic. Deadline: Tuesday, January 2. Entry fee: $9 for three poems.
Read the 2022 Poetry Open winner, "A Moment Caught in Time" by Joanne Jagoda. Read more previous winners and enter here.