AWARD WINNER: SOME PLANTS, A BIRD, AND YOU AND I BY ANJU SHARMA
SECOND PRIZE: THE CLARITY OF DISTANCE BY M.C. SCHMIDT
THIRD PRIZE: THE DEVIL’S GOING AWAY PARTY BY CATHY ADAMS
FINALIST: PULSE BY LYNDSAY HALL
FINALIST: NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH BY JENNIFER POPA
2025 Guest Judge: andrew porter
ANDREW PORTER is the author of four books, including the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage) and the novels In Between Days (Knopf) and The Imagined Life (Knopf). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Narrative, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.