It’s contest announcement time! We had a hard time selecting just eight winners to include in our inaugural anthology! Our community is full of talented writers! Please make sure you celebrate yourselves for taking the leap and sharing your stories with us. We’re SO, SO excited to announce the winners of our Anthology Contest! Our selected contributors will have their work appear alongside bestselling authors Kim Johnson and Brynne Rebele-Henry! Many thanks for your patience while you waited for a response. A giant thank you to our guest agent, and Sera Rivers at Martin Literary Management for assisting with mini workshops for all our submitters!
And now the moment you know you can’t wait for!
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And cue drum roll, please!
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Anthology Winners/Contributors:
Madelin Medina for Last Dance (Above Water)
Rieko Mendez for Petals falling
Andrea Grabowski for The Night Search
Valerie Kemp for Like This
Maia Cataldo for Our Correspondence
Kate Larkindale for A Beautiful Paradox
CeCe Heard for say my name like a prayer
Christina Polge for artemis//apollo
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Longlist (in no particular order):
Maureen Tai for Matricide on the Morning Bus
Sarah Hawkins for There’s Only One Bed
Shari Green for all things end and the one thing
Halli Gomez for Fifty Thousand and the Truth
C. E. Janecek for Not Your Martyr, Not Your Saint
Chelsea McLin for Float
Nicole Roth for In the Movies
Brittany Saulnier for Snow Tomorrow
Danielle Pignataro for Baby
Edward Jackson for Shaving
Isabel De La Pena for Lord, Hear My Prayer
Amélie Mietke for Rebel Heart
Maya Afilalo for Praying I Wouldn’t Be Last
Kelly Esparza for Take the Jump
Victoria Franzese for Fencing Lessons
Lindsey Danis for People Like Us
Sallona Ramesh for Paper Tents
Susan Lin for Touching the Morning
Roshni Veronika Mallick for Logan and Riley
Marisa Gearin for Reforestation
Kylie Wang for Jack O’Lantern
Sam Muller for Where birds fly, after the last sky
Vanessa Jae for Twisted Thing
Alexandra Van Belle for A Door in the Dark
Lucy Zhang for We Were Buried Before We Were Drowned
Ashley Wilda for Depression Diver and Hollow
Isaiah Holbrook for What Happened to Us?
Marleyne Hernandez for Mujeres Poderosas
Kat Heckenbach for The Con Author
Anndee Hochman for Both/And
Zary Fekete for The Speaking Bee
Valerie Kemp for Last Winter
Elaina Battista-Parsons for Fennel and Plaid
CeCe Heard for It All Makes Sense Now
Gwen Katz for A Benedictine Monkey