Winner of the Rising Writer Prize in Fiction
Autumn House would like to congratulate Lynn Schmeidler. Her collection, Half-Lives, was selected as the winner of our 2023 Rising Writer Prize in Fiction by Matt Bell.
Lynn Schmeidler‘s fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and other literary magazines. Her story, “Being Stevie” received a notable citation in Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a Sewanee Writers Conference Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction and has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
We’re so pleased to publish this debut collection in Spring 2024.
We’d also like to congratulate the finalists and semi-finalists for their manuscripts. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We’re grateful for the opportunity to have gotten to read your work, and we are wishing you success.
Thanks also to the judge, Matt Bell, for all his hard work.
FINALISTS
The Ghost Town Collectives and Other Stories by Brittney Corrigan
The Lucky Ones by Brian Crawford
Stealing Home by Sharon Hashimoto
Wild Things: Stories by Christina Kapp
Behind the Higher Hill: A Novel by Bradford Kammin
This is Not Skin by Nathan Roberts
Now I’m Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself by Jill Rosenberg
SEMIFINALISTS
Techniques for Breathing Underwater by Nathaniel Eddy
Like Disaster by Rachel Ewing
My Prisoner & Other Stories by Tyler McAndrew
The Young Fate by Scott Robinson