First place ($1000) is awarded to Anne Ray of Brooklyn, New York, for her story “The Pool.” Ray’s fiction has appeared in Opium, Conduit, LIT, Gulf Coast, and Cut Bank. She is the author of the libretto for “Symposium”, a ten-minute opera, a collaboration with composer Oliver Caplan, performed in 2011 by Juventas New Music Ensemble as part of a contemporary opera series at Club Oberon, Boston. She received an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College.

First runner-up ($500) is awarded to Rebecca Johns of Marquette, Michigan, for “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” and second runner-up ($250) is awarded to Baird Harper of Oak Park, Illinois, for “Good Time.”

All three winning stories will appear in StoryQuarterly 48 which will be published in January 2015.

Elizabeth McCracken–the author of Thunderstruck, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Niagara Falls All Over Again, The Giant’s House, and Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry–was this year’s contest judge.

First place ($1000) is awarded to Elizabeth Hoover of Harrisonburg, Virginia, for her essay “Smudge.” Hoover’s poetry has recently appeared in PANK and The Los Angeles Review. Her essay “Phantom Language” was featured in Lunch Ticket as a finalist for the Diana Woods Memorial Award. Hoover is the assistant director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University.

First runner up ($500) is awarded to Melissa Febos of Brooklyn, New York, for “The Book of Hours,” and second runner up ($250) is awarded to Brad Aaron Modlin of Columbus, Ohio, for “Thomas.”

All three winning essays will appear in StoryQuarterly 48.

Maggie Nelson–the author of Bluets; The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning; Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions; The Red Parts: A Memoir; as well as four books of poetry–was this year’s contest judge.First place ($1000) is awarded to Elizabeth Hoover of Harrisonburg, Virginia, for her essay “Smudge.” Hoover’s poetry has recently appeared in PANK and The Los Angeles Review. Her essay “Phantom Language” was featured in Lunch Ticket as a finalist for the Diana Woods Memorial Award. Hoover is the assistant director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University.

First runner up ($500) is awarded to Melissa Febos of Brooklyn, New York, for “The Book of Hours,” and second runner up ($250) is awarded to Brad Aaron Modlin of Columbus, Ohio, for “Thomas.”

All three winning essays will appear in StoryQuarterly 48.

Maggie Nelson–the author of Bluets; The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning; Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions; The Red Parts: A Memoir; as well as four books of poetry–was this year’s contest judge.

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First place is awarded to Janet Peery of Norfolk, Virginia for her story “No Boy At All.” Peery is the author of Alligator Dance; The River Beyond the World, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What the Thunder Said. She has been the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Second place is awarded to Rumaan Alam of Brooklyn, New York for his story “This Year I’m Thankful For” and third place is awarded to Beth Uznis Johnson of Canton, Michigan for her story “Deep Dark Tan.”

All three winning stories appear in StoryQuarterly 46/47.

Jess Walter, the author of six novels, including the bestsellers Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of the Poets, as well as the recent story collection We Live in Water, was this year’s contest judge.

View the StoryQuarterly 46/47 archive.