Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2025
Spring 2025: Fiction and Nonfiction
JUMPING OFF
by Ginger Pinholster
Winner of the 2024 Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction
Entries must be received by March 31
This $1,000 prize includes publication in Prime Number Magazine, an online journal from Press 53. Grotesque comedy and high moral stakes coexist in this prizewinning story about an orphaned young woman trying to stay afloat, financially and literally.
FALLING
by Hadley Franklin
Winner of the 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize
Entries must be received by April 13
This prize sponsored by a Madrid bookstore gives 2,000 euros, a writing residence in Italy, and the opportunity for the winner and shortlisted entries to be published in a variety of literary magazines. Franklin's prizewinning story, subsequently published in The London Magazine, features a college student navigating complex reactions to her boyfriend's death and the attention that it brings her.
TO THOSE AFFECTED BY MY ACTIONS
by Emily Ver Steeg
Winner of the Fall 2024 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award
Entries must be received by April 30
This twice-yearly contest gives prizes up to $1,500 and publication in the online magazine The Ghost Story for short stories with paranormal, supernatural, or magical realism elements. In this unsettling tale, a crematorium worker has second thoughts about their profession after an apparent revelation from God.
