Winners of the 2018 Full-Length Contests Announced!
Autumn House is thrilled to share with you our winners and finalists for the 2018 Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Contest!
Winners
Cage of Lit Glass by Charles Kell, selected by Kimiko Hahn, poetry
Not Dead Yet and Other Stories by Hadley Moore, selected by Dana Johnson, fiction
Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story by Jennifer Blevins, selected by Daisy Hernández, nonfiction
Runners-up
Rules for Rearrangement by Julie Babcock, poetry
How to Walk on Water and Other Stories by Rachel Swearingen, fiction
Lady Without Land by Krystal Vazquez, nonfiction
Remembering Water by Tuan Phan, nonfiction
Finalists
| Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Border by Shankar Narayan | Cleavage by Michele Ruby | All the Leavings by Laurie Easter |
| Dark Traffic by Joan Naviyuk Kane | Fables of the Deconstruction by Damian Dressick | Awake in the Dream House by Mary Allen |
| Ghost Town by Allison Adair | Him and Her by Lena Ziegler | Candy Cigarettes: Essays by Anne Panning |
| Code by Charlotte Pence | Hot Mess by Beth Johnson | In Josaphat’s Valley by Joshua Bernstein |
| Bluefield by Jennifer Bartell | How the Mind Can Exist in a Physical Universe: Stories by Stefani Nellen | My Small Murders by Ron Tanner |
| Dawn’s Early by Gloria Muñoz | Jenny in Corona by Stuart Ross | On Our Way Home from the Revolution by Sonya Bilocerkowycz (withdrawn) |
| Blueprints by Sarah Burke | Missives from the Mountain View Hostage Crisis by Michael Keen | Otherwise: Essays by Julie Marie Wade |
| The Punishments Must Be a School by Emily August | More Like Home Than Home by Anca Szilagyl | Terroir: Essays on Otherness by Natasha Sajé |
| It Was All a Mistake and I’m Not a Woman by Rebecca Lehmann | No King in Israel by Anthony Otten | The Angle of Flickering Light by Gina Troisi |
| Women in the Waiting Room by Kirun Kapur | No Roads Home by Jay Ellis | |
| The Falls by Emily Mohn-Slate | The Importance of Dead Girls by Nancy Scott Hanway | |
| Ash Sonata by Steve Bellin-Oka | The West House by Erik Dussere | |
| Through a Small Ghost by Chelsea Dingman | Welcome to Wisdom, Utah by Darrell Spencer | |
| Frozen Charlotte by Susan de Sola (withdrawn) | ||
| These Waters by John Belk | ||
| Sum Ledger by Adam Tavel | ||
| Stone Deep by John A. Nieves | ||
| Little What by Jeff Oaks | ||
| Creep Love by Michael Walsh |
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