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William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition

A competitive talent search open to all writing in English, the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is for previously unpublished work. Entries are accepted in seven categories: Novel, Novella, Novel-in-Progress, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, and Short Story by a High School Student. Overall goals of the competition are to seek out new, talented writers and assist them in finding literary agents and, ultimately, publishers for their work.

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Faulkner Wisdom Creative Writing Contest

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The competition is for previously unpublished work only. Self-published and print-on-demand books are considered published unless authors can present current, precise documentation that less than 500 copies have been sold. If a self-published manuscript should win a category, the cash prize offered for that category will be decreased by one third. Considered as published and ineligible are books, stories, essays, and poetry previously published in their entirety on the Internet.

Please pay special attention to labeling your entries. We do not read entries in any category without proper labeling.

Entries are accepted now in eight categories (see below): Novel, Novella, book-length Narrative Non-Fiction, Novel-in-Progress, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, and Short Story by a High School Student. Overall goals of the competition are to seek out new, talented writers and assist them in finding literary agents and, ultimately, publishers for their work.

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of the forthcoming historical novel, The American Daughters , which will be published in 2024 by One World Random House. He is the recipient of the 2023 Louisiana Writer Award and the Black Rock Senegal Residency. He also wrote The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You , which was published by One World Random House in August 2021. It is the 2023 One Book One New Orleans selection. The book was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and longlisted for the Story Prize. The book was also selected to represent Louisiana at the 2023 National Book Festival. His first book, We Cast a Shadow , was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. It was longlisted for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. The novel was also a New York Times Editor’s Choice . Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Kenyon Review, and Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America . A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, and the 2020-2021 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Ruffin was the 2022 Grand Marshal of the Mardi Gras Krewe of House Floats and recipient of the 2022 Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS grant. Ruffin has taught at numerous residencies and conferences including Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Maine Media, Randolph College MFA, and Longleaf. Ruffin was a co-curator of the Read My World Literary Festival (Amsterdam) in 2017 and a contributor in 2022. Ruffin is part of the Artist Network of Narrative 4, an organization dedicated to aiding the educational opportunities of young people.

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The William Faulkner Literary Competition includes the following categories and prizes:

Novel Deadline: July 15, 2024 Winner Prize: $2000 Second Place:  Honorable Mention Certificate Entry Fee:      $50

Adult Short Story Deadline:  July 31, 2024 First Prize     $600 Second Prize $300 Third Prize   $200 Entry fee:     $20

One Act Play Deadline:  July 31, 2024 First Prize     $600 Second Prize $300 Third Prize    $200 Entry fee:      $20

Poetry Deadline:    July 31, 2024 First Prize     $600 Second Prize $300 Third Prize    $200 Entry fee:      $20

Student Short Story Deadline:  August 31, 2024 First Prize:     $250 Second Prize: $150 Third Prize:   $100 Entry Fee: Free

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Employees of the Union County Heritage Museum, the William Faulkner Literary Committee, the New Albany Gazette Newspaper, and their immediate families are not allowed to enter the contest.

The Short Story, One Act Play, Poetry, and Student Short Story entries will not be returned, so keep a copy for your records.  The Novel entries will only be returned if an envelope, with proper postage affixed, is included with your entry.

Only winners will be notified and will be recognized during the Faulkner Literary Competition Luncheon at 11:30 on September 27, 2024, at the First Methodist Church in New Albany, Mississippi.

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2018 Faulkner – Wisdom Competition Winners, Finalists

The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society is pleased to announce the winners, runners-up, and other finalists in its 2018 competition. The primary guideline given to both preliminary and final round judges is: “Publishable with professional editing.” The difference between semi-finalists, finalists, and the short lists is the amount of professional editing which would be required for publication. We would also like to thank the literary professionals who lent their time and expertise to the 2018 competition and festival. Click here for more information on the editors and agents .

Novel For Novel, entries totaled 438, of which nine were selected for the short list, 83 as finalists, and 158 as semi-finalists. Another  188 manuscripts did not place.  The entries came from 41 states, including 48 entries from Louisiana writers, and 13 foreign countries.

Confessions of a Waiter , Richard Katrovas, Prague, Czech Republic Runner-up: Hitchhiking in the Graveyard , Bram Kincheloe, New York, NY

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I Used To Think It Was A Cave , Geoffrey Stewart, New Orleans, LA Remembrance of Blue Roses , Yukihisa Yorker Kageyama, New York, NY Sugar Blues , Lee Meehan, Napa, CA Suppose I say Hummingbird , Beth Ann Fennelly, Oxford, MS The Devil in Dunwoody , Pamela Newton Smith, St. Simon’s Island, GA The Museum of an Extinct Race , Jonathan Rosen, Burlington, CT Water , Nagueyalti Warren, Lithonia, GA

Other Finalists 1974 , Lin Enger, Moorhead, MN Academy of Reality , Steve Putnam, Southwick, MA Acts of Forgiveness , Peter Scanlon, Hingham, MA After Uyuni , Joshua Edelstein, Scottsdale, AZ A Good Family , Teddy Jones, Friona, TX A House on the Spit , Frances Burke, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A Runaway in Algiers , Yusuf DeLorenzo, West Palm Beach, FL A Short Way to Go Before Disappearing , Anne Compton Lambeth, New Orleans, LA Ash Tuesday , Ariadne Blayde, New Orleans, LA Baby Grand , Bob Bachner, New York, NY Blow the Damned , Daniel Joey Oakley, New Orleans, LA Blue Songs , Christopher Love, Tuscaloosa, AL Come Again No More , David Wesley Williams, Cordova, TN Cora’s Kitchen , Kimberly Garrett Brown, Tampa, FL Darkest Light , David Theis, Houston, TX Darlings of Paradise , Eileen Cronin, Sherman Oaks, CA Destiny , Mahmoud Saeed, Chicago, IL Dixie Salvage , Bruce Alford, Hammond, LA Educating Sadie , Alayne Smith, Lawrenceville, GA Exodia , Dan Turtel, New York, NY First Year , Andy Furillo, Davis, CA For the Love of Sugar , Bernard Smith, Mandeville, LA Four Degrees , Julie Carrick Dalton, Winchester, MA Gardenia Duty , Kathleen Varn, Charleston, SC Holding Cassandra , Susie Slosberg, Bronxville, NY Hopewell , David Voda, Palm Springs, CA Immortals , Henry Wise, Lexington, VA Imperfect Burials , Thomas Melcher, Phylo, CA In Other Kinds of Weather , Melanie Pappadis Faranello, West Hartford, CT Island in the Sky , Dana Kroos, Houston, TX Island of Sand , Tim Foley, Sacramento, CA Jerico’s Dane Imperial Protocal , James Howard, Joppa, MD Jesse’s Shrine , Mike Tuohy, Jefferson, GA Julian & Gariella , Rita Welty Bourke, Nashville, TN Killing Engine 509 , Raymond J Addobati, Placerville, CA Little Tea , Claire Fullerton, Malibu, CA Magdalena , Candi Sary, Newport Beach, CA Magnetism , Gay Walley, New York, NY Martha Unraveled , Peggy O’Neal Peden, Nashville, TN Mobile Was A Catholic Town , Bruce Colbert, Daphne, AL Monkey and Moose & The Pirates of Pine Point , Jason Otis, New Orleans, LA My Passion, My Becoming , Andrew Milward, Auburn, AL Newfound Valley , Ann Howell, Ashville, NC Nobody’s Pilgrims , Sergio Troncoso, New York, NY No Returns , Monty Joynes, Boone, NC No Slave to Reason , John Everett, Phoenix, MD Odd Fellows Rest , Clayton E. Spriggs, Covington, LA Of Lessons Lost , Fred Snyder, University Park, FL Off the Mainland , Aaron Rabinowitz, Vancouver, BC, Canada Orient Beach , Bill Woods, Columbia, TN Parting , Ward Brian Zimmerman, Boone, NC People in Stone Houses , Doug Moore, Los Angeles, CA Potomac Fever , Barnes Carr, Houston, TX Poppy in the Weeds , Lourdes Thuesen, Lucerne, CA Reconstruction of the Fables , James McCallister, Columbia, SC Relative Truths , Tena Russ, Lake Forest, IL Returns , Chad Frizzell, Kirkwood, MO Route 2 , Phillip Korth, Phoenix, AZ Saving Alice , Jack Tittle, Metairie, LA See No Evil , Leslie Daniels, Thorold, Ontario, Canada Silas , Stan Kempton, New Orleans, LA Solo Tramp , Eleanor Binnings, Denver, CO State v. Claus , Jo Anne Burgh, Glastonbury, CT Stealing Home , Jay Jarrell, Tampa, FL Sun City , Matthew Minson, Spring, TX The Adulterers’ Club , Laura Brodie, Lexington, VA The Crooked Truth , Kristine F. Anderson, Smyrna, GA The Good Southern Widow , Kathleen McGuire, Tybee Island, GA The House , Ray Filasky, Mechanicsville, VA The Irish In Me , Lawrence Wells, Oxford, MS The Least Worst Choice , Sally Connolly, Scarborough, ME The Lonely Affair , Robert Raymer, Sarawak, Malaysia The Pines , Matt Galletta, Delmar, NY The Rider of the Cross , Ed Southern, Winston-Salem, NC The Rules of Love and Law , Jeffrey Russell, Baltimore, MD The Superhero Experiments , Rachel Leidenfrost, Buffalo, NY The Thin Edge of the Wedge , Lisa Nash Taylor, Keswick, VA The Unremarkable Lives of Adults , Sean Hooks, Los Angeles, CA The Watanabe Name , William Lee Brown, Oazanagakura, Nagano, Japan The West House , Erik Dussere, Takoma Park, MD There Comes a Reckoning , Adam Sydney, Pahoa, HI This Disputable Truth , Sid Johnson, Honolulu, HI To Be Enlightened , Alan Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA Too Pretty for a Hit Man , Lou Dischler, Spartanburg, SC Troubled Path , Robert Forbes, Scottsdale, AZ Two Seasons , Paul Burgoyne, Clearwater, FL Unmixed , Dedra Johnson, New Orleans, LA Unraveled , Christopher Lindsay, New Orleans, LA Walk in the Light , Susan Paisley, Cedar Hill, TN Worlds , John Kearns, New York, NY Zeal , Linus Recht, Glencoe, IL

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Accidentals , Susan M. Gaines, Bremen, Germany Air Between Our Tubs , Justin Swingle, West Hollywood, CA A Last Affair , Sara Alexander, Crownsville, MD All Gone , Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, Minneapolis, MN Altered Children , David Tonkin, Port Townsend, WA A Nest Disturbed , Norman Draper, Bloomington, MN An Isle in the Sky , Victor Bondar, Memphis, TN A Million Miles From Yesterday , Maureen Connolly, Oak Park, IL A Miracle Gro of the Mind , Carol LaHines, New York, NY AThread So Fine , Susan Welch, Seattle, WA An Unexpected Gift , Robert Raymer, Sarawak, Malaysia Appledore , Holly Robinson, Rowley, MA Argentine , Jessie Newton Huls, Chicago, IL As They know It , James McNulty, Austin, TX Austin Wyrd , Steven W. Curry, Lubbock, TX Avelais , Victor Romero, Kew Gardens Hills, NY A Winter Shadow Fading , Michael Kennicutt, Raytown, MO Becoming Chicana , Tisha Marie Reichle, Los Angeles, CA Behind Me Lies the Desert , Kevin Gerard Neill, Phoenix, AZ Belle Isle , Edward V. Ottaway, Cedarville, MI Best Man , Chris Delyani, Oakland, CA Between God and A Hard Place , Tasia D. Jackson, Hillside, IL Between Dreams , Alex Myers, Exeter, NH Birth of the Curse , Kevin King, Brentwood, NH Black Oedipus , Rick Blackwood, East Lansing, MI Blue Moon , James A. Riley, Pikeville, Kay Bungling the Children , Joshua Marcus, Sea Cliff, NY Calvin’s Ghosts , Peter Hammond Schwartz, Seattle, WA Chobe , Joseph Stull, Bridgewater, MA Clay , Frank Meola, Brooklyn, NY Continental Divide , Alex Myers, Exeter, NH Cool Nation , Paul Dorrell, Kansas City, MO Cottonwood , Jenifer Adams-Mitchell, Frankford, DE Crosses of the Poor , Susan Hunter, Lake Luzerne, NY Daisy Doyle , Madonna Ball, Omaha, NE Darkest Light , David Theis, Houston, TX Dark Roux , Toby LeBlanc, Austin, TX Deadfish Wind , Cooper Leavy-Baker, Sarasota, FL Dolores Couvillon , Sharon LaCour, Amery, WI Edge of Redfish Lake , Conrad Jungmann, Lynwood, WA Foul Weather Parade , John Harty, Cypress, TX Givers and Takers , Bruce Berjian, Stuart, FL Deadliner , Norman Draper, Bloomington, MN Deep Fried , Mark Doyon, Winchester, VA Detroit Heroic , Olaf Kroneman, Birmingham, MI Down from Jerusalem: The Breaking of the World , Mollie Crisp-Ruglia, California, MD Forgive Us Our Debt$ , Terry M. Crosby, Washington, DC Girl Farm , Angel Sands Gunn, Charlottesville, VA Girl in the Moon , Juan Chen-Henderson, Lubbock, TX He and She , Alexander Joseph, Boulder, CO Heat of Paris , Max Boyer, Somerset, NJ Hezada, I Miss You , Erin Pringle Homecoming , William Hawkins, Los Angeles, CA Honeysuckles by the Sea , Edward T. Howell, Inman, SC Hurricane Summer , Maureen Hall, West Tisbury, MA If the Moon Had Willow Trees , Kathleen Hall, Austin, TX I’m Not Going to Heaven , Dean Robertson, Norfolk, VA Interruption , Jennifer Solheim, Oak Park, IL In The Light of the Sun , Angela M. Shupe, Milford, MI In the Mind’s Eye , William Becker, St. Louis, MO In The Valley , Jenell Abram, Lancaster, PA In the Valley of the Shadows , Peggy Powell, Morgan Hill, CA Islomanes of Cumberland Island , Rita Welty Bourke, Nashville, TN Joseph in Jerusalem , Joseph Lewis Heil, Muskego, WI Kal Ganis of Kavala , Bruce J. Berger, Silver Spring, MD Kingdom of Apathy , Pasquale A. Neri, Las Vegas, NV Land of Mystical Scents , Mark Mitchell, Greenville, SC Liberator Legacy , Dominick Venezia, Shoreline, WA Lilith and Eve , Courtney Allocca, Ellensburg, WA Mariane’s War , Douglas D. Hall, Rockport, MA Minidoka Legacy , Dominick Venezia, Shoreline, WA Mirror of My Love , Randy Conner, Chicago, IL Missed Memories , Afan Bapacker, Dearborn, MI Miss Fortune’s Metamorphosis , Reina-Shay Broussard, Montgomery, TX Mr. Galaxy’s Unfinished Dream , Ramon Garcia Vazquez, Tom’s River, NJ Mystery of the Last Chief , Michael Jimerson, Henderson, TX New Moon Rising , Patricia Averbach, Shaker Heights, OH Nettie’s Books , Vivian Lawry, Richmond, VA No City , MI, Dustin M. Hoffman, York, SC On a Close Reach , David McCullough, Escondido, CA Operation Delilah , Raymond Knowles, New York, NY Orion’s Belt , Aaron Paul Riley, Fayetteville, AR Padington Green, 1940 , John O’Shea, Oakland, CA Pearl Passing , Dalfina Dailey, Alameda, CA Peter Pain , David Graham, Minden, NE Piera’s Pilgrimage , Lisa Stamidis, Poverty With A View , Tracey Lange, Bend, OR Queen of the Pine Curtain , Barb Fowler Robertson, Diboll, TX Reunited , Connie Harris, Henderson, NV Reversible , Sophie Lin, Charlottesville, VA Right Back Where We Started From , Joy Lanzendorfer, Petaluma, CA Robert and Tess , Jeffrey Russell, Baltimore, MD Rocky Mountain Noir , Peter Learn, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Round Coffin , Joseph Seechack, Midlothian, VA Ryland’s Bride , Erica Obey, New York, NY Sally , Jerri Schlenker, Olive Hill, Ky Saloon , Hayden Muhs, Newcastle, WA Same Holy Violence , Robert Van Wagoner, Concrete, WA San Francisco Savages , Tobias Griffin, Larkspur, CA Self-Portrait as Threat , Kristin Sanders, San Diego, CA September Fourteenth , Carol Owens Campbell, Naples, FL Ship of Lost Children , S. J. MacLean, Danville, CA Sidetracked , Jay Jarrell, Tampa, FL Song of the Lost and Found , Ashlee Cowles, Traverse City, MI Stillwater , Victoria Rohner, Oak Park, IL Storyteller , Frank S. Johnson, Greenfield, MO Suriname Legacy , Dominick Venezia, Shoreline, WA The Benzene Carnival , Lou Dischler, Spartanburg, SC The Bottom of August Lake , Chris Kassel, Bloomfield, MI The Builder of Mountains , Barry Silverstein, Lake Biltmore, NC The Gift , Sue Hruby, West Tisbury, MA The Farewell Tour , Karen Bennett, Dundalk, MD The Fortunate , Sonja N. Haywood, San Antonio, TX The French House , Courtney Lochner, Oak Park, IL The Gathering , Beth Burgmeyer, Norwalk, IA The Girl in the Bathtub , Robert Raymer, Sarawak, Malaysia The Grandfather Tree , Margaret Castillo, Rodenberg, Reston, VA The Holy Ghost Sisters , Andrea Malamut, Cherry Hill, NJ The Lightning Wolves , Richard Lawhon, Crawfordvile, FL The Lives of Diamond Bessie , Jody Hadlock, Colleyville, TX The Lupin Gene , Matthew Minson, Spring, TX The Knife Edge Path , Patrick T. Leahy, Bend, OR The Long Walk Home , David Lewis, North Hollywood, CA The Many Misfortunes of Renate O’Malley , Caroline Shepard, Brooklyn, NY The Other Shoulder , Benjamin Seeley, New Smyrna Beach, FL The Pickard County Atlas , Christina Harding Thornton, Wahoo, NE The Plow in the Tree , Marriah Nissen, Tucson, AZ The Poison in the Pill , Vishwas R. Gaitonde, San Diego, CA The Portal House , Kelsey Rund, Spokane Valley, WA The Portugese Gambit , Paul Rands, Wilsonville, OR The Q’Arshi Scholar , Sharon Quiroz, Ann Arbor, MD The Rider of the Cross , Ed Southern, Winston-Salem, NC The Ringer , Thorne Clark, Brooklyn, NY The Solitude of Bears , Kenneth J. Mitchell, Warwick, NY The Stone Angel , Mason Radkoff, Pittsburg, PA The Thread , Thomas Greer, Bloomsberg, IN These Are Not A Man’s Dreams , Dennis Must, Salem, MA The White Boy Spoke Greek , Michael Aloysius O’Reilly, Chapel, NC The Woman on the Ferry , Robert Raymer, Sarawak, Malaysia Tiny Town , Claudia Hoffman, Madison Heights, MI The Under , Elizabeth Cohen, Plattsburgh, NY The Young Entrepreneurs Club , Matthew Minson, Spring, TX Three King Mackerel and A Mahi Mahi , Caroline Clemens, Cumming, GA Three Ravens , Johanna, DeBiase, Taos, NM Tree With Names , Beth Uznis Johnson, Canton, MI Throwaway Daughter , Lauren Harper Barrow, Parker, CO To Be Enlightened , Alan Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA Tripp , Ann Trooper, Turnbridge, VT Two Roads Diverged , Kim Catanzarite, Medford Lakes, NJ Visit of the Gods , Ellen Breck Coggeshall, Barnstable, MA Walk Through , Evelyn Somers, Boonville, MO Wakedale , Richard Jespers, Lubbock, TX What Belongs Together , Emily Gambone, Georgetown, TX What Men Do , Virginia Ewing Hudson, Raleigh, NC Wounded Sparrows , Kathryn A. Brackett, Spartanburg, SC Write, She Said , Gay Walley, New York, NY Wrong Turn , Caroline Wrenn Cleveland, Charleston, SC Yesteryear , Stephen Eoannou, Buffalo, NY

Narrative Non-Fiction Book

The Society received 117 non-fiction books from 26 states, including 23 from Louisiana writers, and three foreign countries for the 2018 competition. Of the 117 entries, 85 did not place. Eight were selected for the Short list and 12 each as Finalists and Semi-finalists.

Winner: Fruitless , N. West Moss, West Milford, NJ Runner-Up: Farm Girl , Megan Baxter, Travelers Rest, SC Others on the Short List

Approved for Adventure , Michael Armstrong, Flowood, MS Slivers fro m a Broken World , Marilyn Moriarty, Roanoke, VA Streetlight , Steve Kash, Terre Haute, IN The Gilded Cage , David Kennedy, Bronx, NY Twenty-Six Point Freaking Two , Nita Sweeney, Columbus, OH Waiting For the Rain , James Martin, New York, NY

Other Finalists Against the Wind , Frances Burke, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Bruce Springsteen Sang to Me, Liza Porter, Tucson, AZ Dominoes Are Played at Joe’s Place , Justin Hunt, Charlotte, NC Fake Papers , Aaron Rockett, St. Augustine, FL Good Night, Sweetheart, Good Night , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Holding On to Right Side Up , Pat Gallant, New York, NY In Search of Monster Fish , Mark Spitzer, Mayflower, AR Love and Happiness and Suffering in Sialkot, Pakistan, Caleb Powell, Edmonds, WA Quest for the Marble Apple , Richard Jespers, Lubbock, TX The Bottom of the Sky , Stephanie C. Smith, Raleigh, NC The Magnolia Essays, Grayson Russell, Sonora, CA The Old Part of the House , Elizabeth Logan Harris, Brooklyn, NY The View from “The Cairo,” Nancy L. Ruth, San Diego, CA Semi-Finalists From Woodstock with Love , Dennis Manuel, Woodland Hills, CA Legacy , JoAnne Nelson, Bethesda, MD Looking for the Beginning , Dianne M. Connolly, Windham, NH Mating Habits of the North American Unicorn , Laura Hunsberger Erskine, Lexington, SC Mike & Me and the War Between Us, Martha Voutas Donegan, Metairie, LA My Mother’s Keeper , Lee Reilly, Chicago, IL Out of Time , Terrence Ross, New York, NY Sex, Politics, and Religion , Tina Nagy, Warrenton, VA Shades of Metamorphosis , Wokie Kojota, Silver Spring, MD The Fifth Season , Nikita Nelin, Seattle, WA The Heart of a Tiger , Srey Ram Kuy, Missouri City, TX Wild Foxes Guide to the Good Life , Catherine Raven, Emigrant, MT

Novella The Faulkner Society received 78 novella entries, including 31 entries from Louisiana writers and 57 from 14 states and five foreign countries. Of the 78 entries, 50 did not place in the competition, nine placed as semi-finalists, 10 as finalists, and nine were selected for the Short List. Winner Among the Porcelain , Daniel Turtel, New York, NY Runner-Up Aisling Springs, Poet Wolfe, New Orleans, LA Others on the Short List

Alwood , Philip Erickson, St. Paul, MN Chasing Charles Bukowski , Michael Tusa, Abita Springs, LA Clotilde on the Corner , Robert S. Berger, Cutler Bay, FL Incidentals , Matt Minson, Spring, TX Now the Green Blade Rises , Agustin Maes, Oakland, CA Pods , Pascale Bishop, Chicago, IL The Year We Froze , Stan Kempton, New Orleans, LA

  Other Finalists A Shore Thing , James McEnteer, Quito, Equador Canticle of Dreams , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Further , Deborah Jannerson, New Orleans, LA My Brother Romeo , P. Jo Anne Burgh, Glastonbury, CT Porches , Nancy Brock, Columbia, SC Will’s Bach , Peter Coy, Faber, VA Second Chance , Jay A. Jarrell, Tampa, FL Senora Loyola’s Girls , Benjamin Duffy, Poquoson, VA The Dreams of Gabriel Le Noir , Abe de la Houssaye, New YorkA The Last Belle of Fernbriar , Tina D. C. Hayes, Dixon, KY Semi-Finalists Dance of the Deacon , Tom McKenna, Hingham, MA Dawg Knows , Buck rish, M. D., Winston Salem, NC Homegoing , Toni Ann Johnson, Los Angeles, CA Karma Road , Andrew Clarke Milwaukee, WI Naimah and Ajmal , Nancy Avery Dafore, Homer, NY Peculiarities , Lisa Meyer, Maplewood, WI Perish , Amina Gautier, Chicago, IL Separate Homes , Jay A. Jarrell, Tampa, FL The Butcher , Alan S. Kessler, Billerica, MA

Short Story The Faulkner Society received a total of 147 short story entries of which 16 were selected for the Short List. There were 40 finalists and 22 semi-finalists selected. Another 69 manuscripts did not place. 31 entries were received from Louisiana writers with other entries from 17 states and five foreign countries. Winner A Shambles by Matthew Pitt of Fort Worth, TX Runner-up

Big Tom by Gary L. Dearman of Monticello, FL

Others on the Short List All the Missed Cues and Beautiful Boys , Robin Luce Martin, Brooklyn, NY Amorphous Man , Mohammad Hakima, New York, NY Car Trouble, Jack Fredericks, Reno, NV Chassahowitzka , June English, Baton Rouge, LA Felina , Kailyn McCord, New Orleans, LA How Car Dealers Get Rid of Unsold Inventory , Pasquale Bishop, Chicago, IL Recommended Viewing , Constance Boyle, Denver, CO Riders and Butchers of the Apocalypse: An Account in Three Parts, Charles Anthony, III, Gretna, LA The Fastest Way You Can , Susie Slosberg, Bronxville, NY The Myth About Mermaids , Stan Kempton, New Orleans, LA Uncle Robert , David Kennedy, Bronx, NY Waterlines , Alexis Stratton, Columbia, SC When a Cartoon Hero Smiles , Dan Turtel, New York, NY Yellow Flowers , Kathleen Bader-DesHotel, Slidell, LA

Other Finalists A Good Catch, Lesley Hardy, Oxford, OH A Good Place to Die, Jean K. Dowdy, St. Augustine, FL Atlanta Evening , Trisha Warren, Atlanta, GA An Insidious Heritage , Michael Jimerson, Henderson, TX Captain Death, Susan Lowell, Tucson, AZ Cuz’s Last Stand , Tim Rice, Covington, LA Deer Creek , Dr. Jeffey Goelz, Pineville, LA Djinn , Dan Turtel, New York, NY Five Pesos , James L. Hall, Wimette, IL Forever and Ever , Kimberly Parish Davis, Madisonville, TX Foul , Charles Holdefer, Brussels, Belgium Hawk , Kim Bradley, St. Augustine, FL Holy Scriptures , Nancy Brock, Columbia, SC House of Termites , Regina La Barre, New York, NY How I Saved the Last Frontier , Camilla Cusumano, San Francisco, CA Investigation , Michael Stein, Chestnut Hill, MA Invisible Men Make Bad Company , Chelsey Grasso, Brighton, MA Jake the Snake and the Great Python Hunt , Ward Brian Zimmerman, Ph.D., Boone, NC Jay , Sally Ventura, Olean, NY Lamentations , Nancy Antle, New Haven, CT Land of Origin , Timothy Tau, Los Angeles, CA Landsfall , Mark Havlik, Huntersville, NC Mrs. Cunningham , Leslie Daniels, Thorold, Ontario, Canada Nature Undisturbed Provides , Murdic Jones, Monks Corner, SC One Traveler , Timothy Tau, Los Angeles, CA Person of No Rank , Camille Cusumano, San Francisco, CA Revolt of the Crash Test Dummies , Robert Hambling Davis, Newark, DE Road Trip , Marion Barnwell, Jackson, MS Rooked , Lottie Boggan, Jackson, MS Second Chance , Jay Jarrell, Tampa, FL Spitfire , Mary Kuykendall, Ballston Lake, NY Spur up Your Pegasus , David Kennedy, Bronx, NY Standing on the Porch without Your Pants , Nancy A Dafoe, Homer, NY Talking to My Best Friend , Charles Anthony, III, Gretna, LA The Hollowed King , Stuart Rose, Missoula, MT The Imperfect Omelette , Jack Stillwaggon, Hamilton, NY The Interview , Maureen M. Welch, St. Augustine, FL Transmigration Gone Wrong , Jean K. Dowdy, St. Augustine, FL Walk Into the Splintered Sunlight , Bruce Wexler,Elmhurst, IL Where Upon the World Rears Its Ugly Head , Katherine Whitehead, Toronto, Ontario, Canada White Sandy Beaches , John François, Lafayette, LA Semi-Finalists Aragon , S. M. Caruthers, Auburn, CA Baby Dolls , Lottie Boggan, Jackson, MS Better Far Than You Are: An Heroic Tale , Richard Jespers, Lubbock, TX Darkness Awaits , Charles Fleishchman, Winnebago, WI Deer Tracking , Robert Hambling Davis, Newark, DE Heaven, Hell and Holyoke—A Family Apostasy , Carolann Malley, Granby, MA Hello in There, Hello , Jean K. Dowdy, St. Augustine, FL Legend , Mark Havlik, Huntersville, NC Life Like a Fair , Sandra J. Cropsey, Griffin, GA Losing My Religion , War Brian Zimmerman, Ph.D., Boone, NC Mysterious Creatures , Chene Lawson, Los Angeles, CA Precious Flock , Joyce Davis, Northbrook, IL Puritan glory , Cynthia Morrison, Palm Beach, FL Saved Seed , Jean K. Dowdy, St. Augustine, FL Snipe Hunt , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL The 96-Hour Shift , James Sisk, Traverse City, MI The Gardner , Dakota Canon, San Francisco, CA The Mystery of My Grandmother, Catori , S. M. Caruthers, Auburn, CA The Shape of Forever , Jean K. Dowdy, St. Augustine, FL Unforgiveable , Nancy Avery Dafoe, Homer, NY Welcome to Hornet County , Kim Bradley, St. Augustine, FL What He Carried , Jen Marie Wiggins, Savannah,

Novel-in-Progress For the Novel-in-Progress category, the Society received a total of 198 entries with 15 selected for the short list, 51 as finalists, 64 as semi-finalists. Another 68 manuscripts did not place in the competition. Of the 198 entries, 49 were from Louisiana writers.f

Winner Greetings from Asbury Park , Daniel Turtel, New York, NY Runner-up Whistle and I’ll Find You , Marian Szczepanski, Houston, TX Others on the Short List

Alice’s Long Game , Peggy O’Neal Peden, Nashville, TN Chasing Martin , The Rev. Fredric Washington, Jacksonville, FL Dakota Journal , Lawrence Wells, Oxford, MS Eleanor , Geoff Schutt, Salem, MA Forgive Us Our Debt$ , Terry M. Crosby, Washington, DC Greetings from Asbury Park , Dan Turtel, New York, NY Land , Benjamin S. Morrison, Mandeville, LA Love and Other Losses , Donna Sauter, Woodstock, MD Second Chance , Jay Jarrell, Tampa, FL Sisters of the Undertow , Johnnie Bernhard, Ocean Springs, MS Skylakes Fall , Alexander Johnson, New Orleans, LA The Creole Girl’s Violin , Terrie Cambridge, Inglewood, CA The Man From Pravda , Brenda Horrigan, Vineyard Haven, MA The Unfinished Spy , Andrew Burstein, Baton Rouge, LA

Other Finalists 414 7 th Street , Hal Ackerman, Brooklyn, NY All The Things You Are , Geoff Schutt, Salem, MA A Ladder in the Dark , Greg Jones, Orinda, CA A Most Honorable Sin , Alexander Joseph, Boulder, CO A Ripple of Hope , Sabine Chavez-Allcorta, Villiers St. Denis, France Arroyo Circle , JoeAnn Hart, Gloucester, MA Bitter Magic , Nancy Kilgore, Burlington, VT Boiltown , Eric Layer, New Orleans, LA Call It Love , Amaya Rivera, New York, NY Castaway in Kingdom Com , Robert Hambling Davis, Newark, DE Come Again No More , David Williams, Cordova, TN Crashing Through the Noise , Elizabeth Esse Kahrs, Scituate, MA Downfall of Paris , Joe Dwyer, Sacramento, CA Glue Horse Heaven , Steve Putnam, Southwick, MA God’s Studmuffin , Frank Sargeant, Union Grove, AL Ear to Cry , Michel Stone, Spartanburg, SC Erato , Kristin Sanders, San Diego, CA Four Degrees , Julie Carrick Dalton, Winchester, MA Gone Under , Rob Black, Charleston, SC Hoodlum Prodigy , Bonnie K. Kidd, Ocean Springs, MS Humbled , Martha Burns, La Luz, New Mexico Impounded , Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Ames, IA Katabasis , Tom Hill, New Orleans, LA Jazzy and the Pirates , Ellen Morris Prewitt, New Orleans, LA Kathryn Didn’t Commit Suicide , George Wall, Tigard, OR Keeper of the Fire , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Last of an Exceptional Breed , Janet Taylor-Perry, Ridgeland, MS La vie et la mort de Pierre Doucet , Perry Glasser, Haverhill, MA Like Water , Peter McDougal, Atlanta, GA Mind Shadows , Cheryl Schleuss, Wilmington, NC Miss Fortune’s Metamorphosis , Reina-Shay Broussard, Montgomery, TX Miss Sadie , Yoruba B. Coleman, New Orleans, LA My Favorite Color is Yellow Ochre , J. Orfey Reeves, London, England, UK Nowhere To Go But Everywhere , Kim Kronzer O’Brien, Austin, TX Perspectives , Matt Minson, Tomball, TX Reality Unleashed , Rachel Leidenfrost, Buffalo, NY Resonance , Laine Cunningham, Hillsborough, NC Rivers Bend , Lance Dyzak, Knoxville, TN Small-Town Terrestrials , Aaron Rabinowitz, Vancouver, BC, Canada Somebody Home , Kailyn McCord, New Orleans, LA Some Bright Morning , Anya Groner, New Orleans, LA The Best Offense , Julie Ann Candoli, Austin, TX The Brickmaker’s Son , Victoria Ryan, New Orleans, LA The Lives of Diamond Bessie , Jody Hadlock, Colleyville, TX The Pimento Cheese Incident , Chris Jenkins, Evergreen, CO The Real Paul M äkinen? , David Yale, Bayside, NY The Simurgh , Mohammad Hakima, New York, NY The Sunday Painter , Antonia Angress, New Orleans, LA The Woman in Room Nine , Jill Bitner, Fort Worth, TX Too Many Stones , Rodney Nelsestuen, Woodbury, MN Witch , Lynn Ditchfield, Edgartown, MA With Love, or Season , Daniel Turtel, New York, NY

Semi-Finalists A Light in Provence , Anne Justice, Queen Creek, AZ Arm in Arms , Andrea Avery, Phoenix, AZ A Slow Dance With Jesus , Carol Reichert, West Newton, MA Blackberries , Tammy Metras, Bradenton, FL Blood Broke , Branden Boyer-White, Long Beach, CA Blood on a Blue Moon , Jessica H. Stone, Blaine, WA Blood We Did Not Spill , Misha Rai, San Diego, CA Body Art Prison , Robert Hambling Davis, Newark, DE Boom , Pamela Ferdinand, Evanston, IL Catching Olive , Hope Lugo, Oviedo, FL Command , Torie Amarie Dale, Taylors, SC Cottonwood Seeds , Giles Lambertson, Uvalde, TX Ear to the Cry , Michel Stone, Spartanburg, SC Eddie’s Boy , Robert Schwab, Dallas, TX Fairest , Elizabeth Feeney, Philadelphia, PA False Parting , Paul J. Rands, Wilsonville, OR Haute Desert , Cori Clark Nelson, San Francisco, CA If I Die , William Lee Brown, Nagano, Japan Ithaka , Joe Dwyer, Sacramento, CA Jails, Institutions and Death My Fall to Grace , Laurie Jameson, Norco, CA Kinfolk , Schuyler Dickson, Canton, MS Lee and Jack Confidential , Mary Rowen, Arlington, MA Letters from Sardis , John R. Cox, Jr., Millersville, MD Livonia , Kathleen Hall, Austin, TX Lone Girl & the Coffee Boys , Abigail Raeke, Portland, OR Lord of Delusion, G. Craig Powell, Fontão, Portugal Memories Lounge , Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, Savannah, GA Mina Shadows , Schleuss, Wilmington, NC Negs , Milissa Manente, Eufaula, AL No. 7 Bus , Mary J. Nestor, Savannah, GA Northwoodsmen , Laura Cherry, New Orleans, LA Of Noble Blood , Debra Borchert, Bellevue, WA Peace Country , Sarah Beck, Fargo, ND Return to Redemption Ridge , Lottie Bogan, Jackson, MS Reunited , Connie Harris, Henderson, NY Ripon House , Linda Bennett Pennell, Spring, TX Secrets at Dillehay Crossing , Sara Etgen-Baker, Anna, TX Serenade , Nishith Singh, Nevato, CA The Arch , John Malone, Duson, LA The Awakening of Neena Rathod , Anoop, Pleasanton, CA The Berenstein Effect , Hannah Jones, Kingston, WA The Bernice File , Phil Ribera, Castro Valley,C The California Tales , Taylor A. Lucio, Northglenn, CO The City Mother , Maya Sinha, Davis, CA The Companion , Kim Taylor Blakemore, Portland, OR The Frozen Gown , June English, Baton Rouge, LA The Infidel Sister , Cecile Corona, Jamaica Plains, MA The Lost Oratorio of Osbert Parsley , Evelyn Somers, Boonville, MD The Poison in the Pill , Vishwas R. Gaitonde, San Diego, CA The Posthumous Memoirs of Imam John Brown , Riz Hassan, Kensington, MD The Rose in the Stone , Robin G. Roberts, Berlin, CT The Sisters Chanel , Judithe Little, Houston, TX The Stoli File , Phil Ribera, Castro Valley, CA The Truth of Who You Are , Sheila Myers, Skaneateles, NY The Valley of Sage and Juniper , Nelle Galloway, Chicago, IL The Unmaking of Eden , Dakota Canon, San Francisco, CA The Wound and the Bow , Charles M. Boyer, Wellesley, MA Third Year , Sephanie Benjamin, Fresno, CA Three and One , Mary Andersen, San Francisco, CA Under the Rainbow Sheen , Daniel Joey Oakley, New Orleans, LA Unraveling Penelope , Isabella Seraphim, Fort Lauderdale, FL Victoriously Becoming , Nicole Baxter, Queen Creek, AZ Yet Wilderness Grew in My Heart , Cam Terwilliger, Brooklyn, NY Essay

T he Faulkner Society received a total of 110 essays, including 40 from Louisiana writers and 60 from 20 other states and five foreign countries. The preliminary rounds judges selected ten manuscripts for the Short List, 21 finalists, and 19 semi-finalists. Another 60 manuscripts did not place. Winner Zen and the Art ofDementia , Michael Ditchfield, Edgartow n, MA Runner-up The Blackish Syndrome , Michelle Simon, Scottsdale, AZ Others on the Short List

At the Feet of Sleeping Giants , Kelli Sullivan, Houston, TX Cannot Be Seen, Nor Even Touched, Petra Perkins, Highlands Ranch, CO Mourning Tryptic , Allison Blum, New Orleans, LA On Being Stripped , Gay Walley, New York, NY A Girl Scout’s Field Guide to Chernobyl , Clare Canon, Kyiv, Ukraine The Mystical Artist, Obert Fittje, Tallahassee, FL The People Sat Down to Eat and Drink and Stood Up to Pray, Courtney Clark, Cleveland, MS What I Want Most , Cathy Lepik, Atlanta, GA

Other Finalists A Good Catch , Leslie Hardy, Oxford, OH A White Mother Looks at the NYPD Through the Eyes of Her Black Godson, Pat Gallant, New York, NY Beauty for Ashes , Rashwanda Dunbar, Shreveport, LA Bring Me the Death Mask of Pancho Villa , Joe Dwyer, Sacramento, CA Clamming , Christine Miller, New Orleans, La #HerToo , Tena Russ, Lake Forest, IL I Hate Pink , Marilynn B. Pyatigorets, Minneapolis, MN Landing in Cuba , Anne Woods, Tiburon, CA Legacy , Maureen D. Hall, West Tisbury, MA Little Boy Blue Makes It Through , Andrew Gregory Krzak, Chicago, IL Mr. John, Wise Elder, Garry Wallace, Powell, WY Nietzche on Montaigne & Shakespeare , Grayson Russell, Sonora, CA Oral Office , Margaret Donovan Bauer, Greenville, NC Raison d’Etre , Nancy Dafoe, Homer, NY Shakespeare’s Operatic Sonnets , M. D. Veritas, New Orleans, LA SOS: Shooters on Steroids , Gary Wallace, Powell, WY The Fairy Tale of Caddy Compson , Grayson Russell, Sonora, CA The Hole , Pat Gallant, New York, NY The Lord’s Road Trip , Katie Burke, San Francisco, CA Thirty is the New Fortyfication , Daniel Joey Oakley, New Orleans, LA What We Need Are More Heroes , Leslie Daniels, Thorold, Ontario, Canada

  Semi-Finalists A Heavenly Path , Lisa Kalajan, Arroyo Grande, CA Charlotte’s Web , Grayson Russell, Sonora, CA Eclectic Reflections on American Romanticism , Stephanie Zwang, Irvine, CA Finding Mother , Holly W. Schwartztol, The Villages, FL Jest Hep Me , Lottie Brent Boggan, Jackson, MS I’m Glad You’ve Been My Brother , Garry Wallace, Powell, WY Immigrant’s Fare , Frank S. Johnson, Greenfield, MO Larry , Pat Gallant, New York, NY Lotus Flowers , Karen M.Hempson, Skaneateles, NY Me Without You , Pat Gallant, New York, NY Neal , Duane DeRaad, El Prado, NM PC At the Cemetery , Mary Kuykendall, Ballston Lake, NY Plantation, Convent, Masoleum: A Spatial and Interior Analysis , Matilda Sullivan, Lynchburg, VA Prayerful Hands , Lottie Brent Boggan, Jackson, MS The Bells of Amsterdam , Grayson Russell, Sonora, CA The Carol of the Troll in Prose , Kevin P. Gilheany, New Orleans, LA The Porter , Pat Gallant, New York, NY The Wasps of February , Grayson Russell, Sonora, CA Thoughts on Being Diagnosed With Breast Cancer , Linda Behrend, Knoxville, TN When Breast Cancer Claimed , Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, Burlington, NC

Poetry The Faulkner Society received a total of 146 entries for the Poetry Category, 36 of which were from Louisiana Writers and 110 from 16 states and three foreign countries. The preliminary judges selected 24 for the short list, 42 other finalists, and 39 semi-finalists. Another 41 entries did not place.

Winner Reading Romance with a Lady Killer , Larry Rhu, Columbia, SC Runner-u p Beyond Wings , Jean Carr, Tucson, AZ Others on the Short List Ancient fire ritual to heal the world , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL A Universe of Fools , S. T. Eleu, Chicago, IL Breathless , Tina D. C. Hayes, Dixon, KY Celestials , Petra Perkins, Highlands Ranch, CO Fake Noose , Benjamin Aleshire, New Orleans, LA How the Rain Must Feel , Larkin Edwin Greer, New York, NY Immigration Algorithm, Mark Svenvold, New York, NY I Must Get Hold of Myself , Carroll Devine, Mandeville, LA Love and Madness , Patricia Gray, Washington, DC Mr. Englund Opines on Forced Retirement , Jacob Appel, New York, NY October 4, 1974 , Christopher E. Lindsey, New Orleans, LA Once , Warren Nagueyalti, Lithonia, GA Orange and Red , M. C. D. Perry, Ridgeland, MS Penelope’s Side of the Story , Susan Levi Wallach, Columbia, SC Rain I used to Love , Pat Gallant, New York, NY Rock Man , Martha Vontas Deonegan, Metairie, LA Semblance of Peace , Eve Brower, Covington, LA Screams of Butterflies , Michelle T. Simon, Scottsdale, AZ Today, She Wears the Flowered Dress , Elaine McDermott, Gulfport, MS Swimming with the Great White Whale , M. D. Veritas, New Orleans, LA Wait and See , Yoruba Baltrip-Coleman, New Orleans, LA What Have You Done , Tom Hill, New Orleans, LA

Other Finalists A Brittany Swim , Maya Riboult, Washington, DC Adis Ababa, Ward Brian Zimmerman, Boone, NA Alamagordo, June English, Baton Rouge, LA Antartica, Alexandra O’Sullivan, Metairie, LA Astrocyting , Peter Coy, Faber, Va A Summer Trilogy , Carol Vinson, Brooklyn, NY Boo-dan Daddy , Marilyn Pyatigorets, Minneapolis, MN Briefcases , Pat Gallant, New York, NY Call Me By My One True Name , Constantina Clark, Greens Fork, IN Campo Santo , Larry Rhu, Columbia, SC Dance Lessons with George, John, Paul, and Ringo , Ania Lakritz, Sherman Oaks, CA Existence , Yoruba B. Coleman, New Orleans, LA Frasconi’s Dream Tigers , Peter Coy, Faber, VA Gone , Pat Gallant, New York, NY Hairpins , Jane Hall, Wilmette, IL Herr Rilke, A Tribute …of Sorts , Constantina Clark, Greens Fork, IN Intent , Dawn Neyland, Metairie, LA Iris , Alexis Moore, Huntsville, AL Izmailovo in Winter , Andrew Gregory Krzak, Chicago, IL Irreconcilable Differences , Holly Schwartztol, The Villages, FL Justify Your Existence, Michelle T. Simon, Scottsdale, AZ Later, If Not Today , Alan Tu, Pittsford, NY Lump Some Love , Daniel Joey Oakley, New Orleans, LA Luna Eclipsed , Yoruba B. Coleman, New Orleans, LA Moon and Tides , Paul Bartkiewicz, Scituate, MA Neige à Vieux Carr é , Jack Stillwaggon, Hamilton, NY No More Forever , M. C. D. Perry, Ridgeland, MS No Safe Tea , Kathleen Baer-Deshotel, Slidell, LA Proverbs 3:18 , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Seasons of Life , Sarah Taylor, Louisville, KY Stronger Standing Near the Door , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Stumbling Towards the Sun , Anne Bobrick, New York, NY Sunday Morning , Heather Harris, Metairie, LA The American Garden By: P. J. Saxor , Joanna Polyakov, Antioch, IL The Final Days of Beauty , Stephen Thomas Roberts, Lagrangeville, NY The Madness of Madness , Holly W. Schwartztol, The Villages, FL Two Specimens of Nature , S. M. Caruthers, Auburn, CA The Disappearing Mother , Jacqueline Summers, Narberth, PA Tommies , Cynthia Morrison, Palm Beach, FL To Sleep…, Christopher E. Lindsey, New Orleans, LA Until We Meet Again , Leslie Daniels, Thorold, Ontario, Canada When Writing Was Out of the Question , Constantina Clar k , Greens Fork, IN

16,791 Nights , Pat Gallant, New York, NY After Eros , Daw Neyland, Metairie, LA An Ordinary Man , Christopher E. Lindsey, New Orleans, LA A Rose Arose , Suki Michelle Clark, Round Lake Beach, IL A Turtle on Her Day Off , S. M. Caruthers, Auburn, CA Backlash , Maureen D. Hall, West Tisbury, MA Benevolence , Constance E. Boyle, Denver, CO Dancing Our Amens , Constantina Clark, Greens Fork, IN Expulsion , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Future Summoning of Eros , Constantina Clark, Greens Fork, IN General Prophet , M. D. Veritas, New Orleans, LA Here Lies Ellie , Jacqueline Summers, Narberth, PA His End , Yoruba B. Coleman, New Orleans, LA I Have Anxiety , Alexandra O’Sullivan, Metairie, LA Imbalance , Anne Bobrick, New York, NY Just Another Rape , Jean Carr, Tucson, AZ Letter to Tutaawkhamen , Regina La Barre, New York, NY Living Alone , Martha Vontas Donegan, Metairie, LA Love Charm , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Missing Judy , Holly W. Schwartztol, The Villages, FL Navigation , Duane DeRadd, El Prado, NM On High , James L. Hall, Wilmette, IL Oracular Oaks , M. D. Veritas, New Orleans, LA Parisian Fairy Tales , Constantina Clark, Greens Fork, IN Pirates of the North Shore , Tina Outten, Rodanthe, NC Rather and Father , Holly W. Schwartztol, The Villages, FL Rejoice in Your Freedom from the Demogogues of a False God , Constantina Clark, Greens Fork, IN Resurrection , M. D. Veritas, New Orleans, LA Sheets on the Line , Jean Carr, Tucson, AZ Strange , Torie Amarie Dale, Taylors, SC Summer Night , Peter Coy, Faber, VA Sweet Deceiver , Christopher E. Lindsey, New Orleans, LA The Sun Rises and Sets , Duane Luminais, Homer, LA The Triumph of Death at Pisa , Frank Cebulski, Albany, CA The Wild Part of Me , Jean Carr, Tucson, AZ The Wonder of Birth , Holly W. Schwartztol, The Villages, FL Through the Remote Valley , Richard Albert Morillo, Merrick, NY Wipeout , Stephen Thomas Roberts, Lagrangeville, NY You: Ghuru and My Muse , Dawan Neyland, Metairie , LA

Short Short Story by a High School Student The Faulkner Society received 78 entries in the category, with eight manuscripts selected for the short list, six as other finalists, and seven as semi-finalists. Another 57 entries did not place in the competition.  The entries came from 16 states, including 33 from Louisiana students. Equal Winners

Bletchley Nights , Alex Clendenning Jiménez, Phoenix, AZ Solidarity in Exhaustion , Abbey Hebert, Harvey, LA

Drowning Parched , Kalista Puhnaty, Idyllwild, CA

Currents , Megan Lunny, Doylestown, PA Cutler’s Pier Drowning Festival , Mary Murphy, New Orleans, LA JAK , Evan Sawatsky, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Outpost , Lucas Brien, Greenwich, CT Serpentine , Megan Kurtz, New York, NY Other Finalists Cold Fish , Serena Woosley, Fountainville, PA Filial Piety , Aimee Oh, Allendale, NJ Mrs. Townsend , Grace Tran, Portland, OR Talent , Franchesca Castillo, Thornton, CO The Conquest and Razing of Love , Cheon Allen Lee, Idyllwild, CA Underneath the Deck , Emily Clarke, Idyllwild, CA Semi-Finalists Derrick Torres , Ryan French, Idyllwild, CA Emails to Those it Concerns , Delany Burk, Idyllwild, CA Film Reel , Alex Bishop, Los Angeles, CA How to Crush a Ladybug , Tejiri Sebeni, Idyllwild, CA Jump , Nikolai Smith, Idyllwild, CA Soul Sisters , Bailey Bujnosek, Idyllwild, CA Who? , Gabriella Wackford, Idyllwild, CA