The most recent issue of Copper Nickel features the winners of their 2012 contests. Fiction was selected by Kevin Wilson, and Paisley Rekdal judged poetry.
Fiction
First Place
Anne Valente: “Dear Amelia”
Special Mention
Sarah Gerkensmeyer: “My Husband’s House”
Adam Sturtevant: “The Pretenders”
Finalists
Shabnam Nadiya: “And We Rise How We Rise”
Leslie Rakowicz: “Celia”
Poetry
First Place
Tarfia Faizullah: “Reading C