AWARD WINNER: UNIDENTIFIABLE CELLS BY REEMA RAO
SECOND PRIZE: AND ONLY I REMAIN BY MICHAEL PEARSON
THIRD PRIZE: A TIME TO CHOOSE BY SHAYLA FRANDSEN
FINALIST: FOUR WORDS BY MB VALENTE
FINALIST: FINDING JAKE BY JEANNE GENIS
2024 Guest Judge: Danielle Lazarin
Danielle Lazarin is the author of the short story collection BACK TALK. Her fiction and essays can be found in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Literary Hub, Glimmer Train, The Cut, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. Her work has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Glimmer Train Family Matters Award, the Millay Colony for the Arts, The Freya Project, and the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. She lives and teaches in her native New York, where she is at work on a novel and a story collection.