2024 - Fiction/CNF Judge - Edwidge Danticat
1st Place Fiction: Sandy Nietling - Black River
1st Place CNF: Julie Moon - Mouth Garden
2nd Place Fiction: Stephanie Ramlogan - That Night at the Jubilee Hotel
2nd Place CNF: Sarah Giragosian - What Kind of Hawk
3rd Place Fiction: Hope Kokot - The Creation of Audrey
3rd Place CNF: Starr Davis - I Am Mostly Bad Blood
2023 - Fiction Judge - Tash Aw, CNF Judge - Patricia Hampl
1st Place Fiction: Scott Hunter - Maybe, Probably
1st Place CNF: Jubi Arriola-Headley - Pissant
2nd Place Fiction: Tanya Rey - Cities of Refuge
2nd Place CNF: Ahmed Kabil - Amreeka
3rd Place Fiction: Pallavi Dixit - Edison
3rd Place CNF: Hanne Shapiro Steen - Quilt
2022 - Judge Justin Torres
1st Place: Elise Thi Tran - Dredged from the Courtyard Pond
2nd Place: Greg Tebbano - If She Doesn’t Exist, Why Do I Miss Her?
3rd Place: Lauren Alwan - After the Levantines
4th Place: Leila C. Nadir - Afghan Americana
5th Place: Kaushika Suresh - Gossip
2021 - Judge Lan Samantha Chang
1st Place: Alan Sincic - The Slapjack
2nd Place: Suzanne Bailey - This Bright Court
3rd Place: Mariam Bazeed - The Boy Made of Air
4th Place: Phil Taylor - The Absence of Color
5th Place: Stephanie Mullings - Walk Good
Readers’ Pick: Zoë Bossier - Welcome to Cactus Country
2020 - Judge Sebastian Faulks
1st Place: P.J. McKay - The Telling Time
2nd Equal: Jessica Elisheva Emerson - from the verb: to know
2nd Equal: Carrie Coogan - Disappear Here
4th Place: Tej Rae - Bush Babies
2019 - Judge Paul McVeigh
1st Place: Sarah Johnson Allen - We Make them Pay
2nd Place: Sandra Jensen - Seagull Pie
3rd Place: Sarah Fuchs - Mississippi Goddam
Honorable Mention: Eleanor Roth - C8
Honorable Mention: Lori Jakiela - The Trailing Edge
2018 - Judge Adnan Mahmutovic
1st Place: Adam McCulloch - The Silver Trail
2nd Place: Kristy Keller - Harper Holloway and the Disappearance of Arabella Sent
3rd Place: R.S. Deeren - The Mirror
4th Place: Katie Simon - Plagued
5th Place: Anna Delaney - Islanders