The Raindrop's Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome and St. Paula by Maurya Simon was just chosen as a runner up in this year's Poets Prize. Congratulations Maurya!
Judge's Prize, chosen by Teresa Leo
- Little Oblivion by Susan Allspaw, Aurora, CO
Editor's Prize:
- Quelled Communiqués by Chloe Joan Lopez, Colchester, VT
Finalists:
- Fugue for Other Hands by Joseph Fasano, Tarrytown NY
- The Night Dog Variations by John Minczeski, Maplewood, MN
- Fog and Invisible Horses by Jennifer Chapis, Brooklyn, NY
- Myths and Miscellany by Christopher Arigo, Pullman, WA
Nostalgia for the Criminal Past by Kathleen Winter of Glen Ellen, CA chosen by Deborah Bogen
Finalists:
- Little Oblivion by Susan Allspaw of Aurora CO
- Mirror inside a Coffin by Maureen Alsop of Palm Springs, CA
- Quelled Communiqués by Chloe Joan Lopez of Colchester, VT
- The Revolver in the Hiveby Nicolas Hundley of Austin. TX
- Letters from the Handmade Dark by Fritz Ward of Swarthmore, PA
Judge's Prize, chosen by Jenny Mueller:
- Kingdom of Throat-stuck Luck by George Kalamaras, Fort Wayne, IN
Editors' Prize:
- We Deserve the Gods We Ask For by S. Brady Tucker, Lafayette, CO
Elixir is pleased to announce Memory Sickness by Phong Nguyen of Warrensburg Missouri as the contest winner. The short story collection will receive a $2000 prize as well as publication by Elixir Press.
Four finalists were also selected:
- The Proper Words For Sin stories by Gary Fincke of Selinsgrove, PA
- Report From a Place of Burning, a novel by George Looney of Erie, PA
- Dysfunction: Stories by Annam Manthiram of Rio Rancho, NM
- The Innocent Party stories by Aimee Parkison of Charlotte, NC