2025 winners & runners-up

Fiction winner: Mariah Geese for “Choose Your Own Sorrow”

Poetry winner: Hajjar Baban for a suite of 3 poems, including “Hall of Mirrors”

Fiction runner-up: Faye Wikner for “This Universe, You’re Next”

Poetry runner-up: Mai-Linh Hong for “Field Notes From Aliens Who Float”

Judges: Gwen Kirby (fiction) and Hieu Minh Nguyen (poetry)

Read the winning work in our 2025 contest folio.

2024 winners & runners-up

Fiction winner: Jody Chan for “beginning, beginning, end”

Poetry winner: David Joez Villaverde for “REDACTION”

Fiction runner-up: Alex Connors for “Spaceship”

Poetry runner-up: DeeSoul Carson for “Confession”

Judges: Venita Blackburn (fiction) and Diana Khoi Nguyen (poetry)

Read the winning work in our 2024 contest folio.