The time has come! We’re announcing the winners of our Lucky No.7 Challenge! It was no surprise that we received so many impressive submissions offering unique takes on our prompts. At the very least, you’ve got some great stories to send out for consideration at other venues. No matter the outcome, we hope everyone had as much fun as we did! Below are our winners and the writers who made the top forty! Check it out!
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First Place Winner:
Rocky Halpern for Fairy Boy Flight
Second Place Winner:
Sarah Maxfield for Buried Treasure
Third Place Winner:
Rachel Delaney Craft for In the Wraithwood
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Top 40
Christine Lei for To Seela
Sarah Jensen for Artifacts of the Forgotten / Dear Violet / Postal Relativity
Kat Boyd for The Vanished
Harmony Heart for No Mercy for the Dying God
Kathryn Kass for The White Box
Keshni Washington for To My Departed Grandmother
Jenifer Dale for I Never Forgot You
Rocky Halpern for Fountain of Blood in the Shape of a Girl
Sarah Duffey for A Tournament
Rachel Federman for Dear Simone
Jaye Freyer for The Locket and Dear Aunt Carrie
Jessica DeHart for Like Camp Letters From A Friend
Heather Lewis for Life Beginning Letters
Veronica Hassenger for Lucky No. 7 Club: Ladies of Letters and Spectrum
Ann Malaspina for The Castle
Gabrielle Lakusta for Dear Daddy
Anna Pagan for Hope’s Cure and Old Ms. Mabel
Natalie Birkin for The Letter and the Names
Noah Weisz for The Escape
Rachel Delaney Craft for Do You Think Ghosts Are Beautiful?
Ella Jaffe for How Alexa Killed My Cat
Cornell Brellenthin for Undated Excerpts from Crossed Missives
Sara Pauff for Manifest Your Future
Keila Aartila for Unspoken
Darlene Pagán for Mirla Means Blackbird
Sarah Maxfield for Natural Selection
Joel Shoemaker for Correspondentures
Justin Mellette for Quadrennial and Amendments
Elizabeth Louise for A Daughter Called Hope
Michael Eberlein for Sundown
Sally Simon for The New Boyfriend and Tenth Summer
Tedi Park for The Mountain
Karina Martinez for The Boys
Emily Greenzang for The Hammer
Scott Tierney for Dear Me
August Van Stralen for The Shadow Men
Lisa Buscemi Reiss for A Slice of 1977
Frances Koziar for Legacies From High School, For the Thank-You-Mom-and-Dad Contest, and Letters and Questions
Pym Schaare for Time Thin Paper
Valerie Kemp for Dear Jayden