Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2024
Spring 2024: Fiction and Nonfiction
ANAADI'S SMILE
by Nandini Lal
Winner of the 2022 Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction
Entries must be received by March 15
Bellingham Review awards $1,000 apiece for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in this annual contest. Lal's fable-like story tells of a young man in rural India, the cherished firstborn son after seven daughters, who dreams of a life beyond supporting his family.
CONFLAGRATION
by Teresa Burns Gunther
Winner of the 2023 Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest
Entries must be received by April 1
This long-running contest offers prizes up to $1,000 and online publication for short fiction. In this tense story, a woman reflects on struggles in her marriage while they prepare to evacuate their home during a wildfire.
MY RED HOT CAPE COD SUMMER
by B. Rosenberg
Winner of the 2023 Sixfold Short Story Award
Entries must be received by April 23
Winners of this poetry and fiction contest receive $1,000 apiece when they receive the most votes in a multi-round competition judged by the entrants. In this witty coming-of-age story, a teen boy navigates the perplexities of family dynamics at a summer beach house and kisses a girl for the first time.
SAVED
by Rebecca T. Godwin
Winner of the 56th New Millennium Writings Awards
Entries must be received by June 30
This twice-yearly contest from a well-regarded literary journal gives prizes of $1,000 apiece for poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and essays. Godwin's Winter 2023 prizewinning story is the poignant tale of a small-town beauty queen who channels her frustrated dreams into supporting her husband's ministry.