Judge: Jake Arnott
Runner-up:
2nd runner-up:
Judge: Mick Carlon
Runner-up: Enid Baxter Ryce, The Spy and the Small Flames
2nd runner-up: K. Vann O’Brien, Eko of Disaster
Judge: Simon Petherick
Runner-up: Redfern Barrett, Broken Binaries
2nd runner-up: Benjamin Whitis, A Story for Shiloh
Judge: Faith Shearin
Runner-up: Rob Yardumian, The Grove of Impossible Things
2nd runner-up: Jaya Agrawal, Leo and the Chess Game of Ashoka
Judge: Lara Tupper
Runner-up: Rebecca Andem, Man Staring at Water
2nd runner-up: Mark Connelly, The Dieter
Honorable Mentions:
James Moran, Idios – A Comic Tale of Nightmares
Rosa del Duca, Live at the Scene
Eugene Stein, My Affair with Anna Freud
Judge: Becca Barnes
Runner-up: Ana Salote, Zoolooshuns
2nd runner-up: Tara Crowe, Little Mice
Honorable Mentions:
Neel Patel, Tobin and Blake
Lyn Katz, The Last Picture Book
Colette Victor, Blue Ice-Cream
Judge: Deborah Kalb
Runner-up: Jay Kauffmann, The Mexican Messiah: A Novella and Stories
2nd runner-up: Jesus Francisco Sierra, At Times of Loss and Other Cuban Stories
Honorable Mentions:
D. B. Gardner, Every Whistle Paints a Picture
Kevin Allardice, But They Filmed the Movie Somewhere Else
Doug Piotter, Shaving in the Dark
George Choundas, I Think I’ll Stay Here Forever
Amalia Gladhart, Meanwhile
Judge: Brenda Peterson
Runner-up: Lynn Slaughter, The Big Switch: Varney and Cedric
2nd runner-up: Amy Kelly, Little Acts of Useless Rebellion
Honorable Mentions:
Anel Ryan, The Legend of JarMar
Jane Snyder, Yule Boys
Atlas Ioane, Dawn of Thyme: The Camelot Encounter
The Lost Song of VaLore
Judge: Nancy Pearl
Finalists:
Cameron Walker, To Undreamed Shores: Stories (short story collection)
Raymond Lane, The Seven Virtues of Elsie Strangeland (novel)
Semi-Finalists:
Ghosting Shakespeare; Not My Mother’s Daughter; Echo & Narcissus; Roadside, Creekside; The Morgue Keeper
Judge: Rosanne Parry
Finalists:
Amy Coomer, Boys on a Train (YA novel)
Kathryn Clark, Things I Learned When I Was Dead (YA novel)
Semi-Finalists:
The Girl Next Door; Like Watermelon Candy; Black Snowman
Honorable Mentions:
Good Intentions; My Life with the Ragtag Whirly Girlies; A Very Bad Unseen Thing; ALT/ESC/F13; Questions of a Warrior; The Aves
Judge: Ann Hood
Finalists:
Sharon White, Minato Sketches (novel)
Lynn Schmeidler, Possibility Hunger (short story collection)
Semi-Finalists:
Flyover Girls; The Havana Standard; Autobiography of Migration
Honorable Mentions:
Mildred and Boris; Smaller Lives; You Have Reached Your Destination; Tentacles Numbing; Newman’s Choice; Eight Maids; Hold Me While I Scream; Launch Me to the Stars, I’m Finished Here; The Oud Player of Old Cairo; Mazes and Other Puzzles; Dundee; Girl Country; Lonely Beasts; Hairy Govinda: Stories; What We Were Looking For; Under Pressure and Other Stories; The Gospel of Rot; Wound Side Down; Afterlives
Judge: Anthony McGowan
Finalist:
Peggy Landon, Black Pilgrims on the Prairie: The Story of Nicodemus, Kansas (novel)
Semifinalists:
The Time Tamers; The Doll Thief
Honorable Mentions:
Feather; The Rat Catcher; Families Like Ours; Our River Boat School
Judge: Cris Mazza
Mack Green, Frank’s Bloody Books (novel)
Gay Walley, Magnetism (novel)
Diane Josefowicz, Guardians and Saints (stories)
Ronald Dunham, Epoch 2000 (novel)
Judge: Ramona Ausubel
Israela Margalit, Too Much (stories)
Nancy Agabian, The Fear of Large and Small Nations (novel, withdrawn from consideration)
Judge: Marie-Helene Bertino
Vishwas Gaitonde, On Earth as It Is in Heaven (stories)
Judge: Sara Pritchard
Jordan Farmer, Burn With Me (stories)
Natalie Harnett, Hallet House (YA novel)
Judge: Sara Pritchard
Kate Krautkramer, We Are the Children (stories)
George Looney, The Worst May Be Over (stories)
Judge: Mark Brazaitis
Nona Caspers, Alley Stories (stories)
Sharon Ellis, The Devil Between Us (novel)
Holly Thompson, Somewhere South of Tokyo (stories)
Judge: Mark Brazaitis, Michael Mirolla
Ashley Mace Havird, An Old Horse Named Troy (MG novel)
Terrance Manning, Jr., Andretti in the El Camino (stories)
Thomas M. Atkinson, Tiki Man (novel)
Shane Stricker, One Eye Closed Tight Against the Coming Jesus (stories)
Judge: Lev Raphael
Also Published: Michael Gutierrez, The Trench Angel (novel)
Ted Pelton, The Trickster Woodchuck (stories)
Judge: Lev RaphaelW
Mathias Freese, I Truly Lament (stories)
Mark Lyons, Brief Eulogies at Roadside Shrines (stories)
Judge: Marge Piercy
Also Published: George Rosen, The Immanence of God in the Tropics (stories)
Tracy DeBrincat, Hollywood Buckaroo (novel)
C.K. Killheffer, A World of Born (novel)
Judge: Marge Piercy, Alexandria LaFaye
Mariko Nagai, Weight of the Land (novel)
Amy Schutzer, The Color of Weather (novel)
Josie Sigler, El Camino (stories)
Len Spacek, The Summer of Love (YA novel)
Thom Mark Shepard, The Green Apettes (YA novel)
Judges: Michael Mirolla, Michael Lee
Also Published: Helen Phillips, And Yet They Were Happy (stories)
Barbara Salvatore, Big Horse Woman (novel)
Nicholas T. Brown, Driftwood (stories)
Madeline Sonik, The Talking Cure (stories)
Li Miao Lovett, Honorable Mention, In the Lap of the Gods (novel)
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