Since 1983, the University of Georgia Press has annualy held their Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, which, according to their website, “was established to encourage gifted emerging writers by bringing their work to a national readership.” Siamak Vossoughi’s winning collection Better Than War will be published in September 2015.
From the publisher’s description: “The stories in Better Than War encompass narratives from a diverse set of Iranian immigrants, many searching for a balance between memories of their homeland and their new American culture. [ . . . ] All Iranian immigrants, young or old, carry with them a vivid past in their contemporary life. Vossoughi’s Better Than War is about growing up, coming of age, and raising children in America while still remembering the importance of retaining Iranian pride.”
Preorder your copy of Better Than War at the University of Georgia Press website.
The newest issue of 
The Spring 2015 issue of 
The Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
The winner and honorable mentions of the 2014 Barthelme Prize are featured in the Summer/Fall 2015 issue of 
The 
FIRST PRIZE (shared)
The 
First place: Spencer Hyde [pictured], of Franktown, CO, wins $1500 for “Light as Wings.” His story will be published in Issue 97 of Glimmer Train Stories. This will be his first major fiction publication.
The 
The Gival Press Poetry Award is held annually. Open to national and international poets, winners receive $1,000 and publication. The 2013 winner, We Deserve the Gods We Ask For by Seth Brady Tucker was published this past fall.
The Slapering Hol Press 
First Place
First Prize Creative Nonfiction
The Word Works’s 
Winner of the 
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First Place
The Open Mouth of the Vase by Amy Ash, the winner of the 2013 
Study for Necessity by JoEllen Kwiatek was released in April 2015. Winner of the 
Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize
First place: Clare Thompson-Ostrander [pictured], of Amesbury, MA, wins $1500 for “The Manual for Waitresses Everywhere.” Her story will be published in Issue 97 of Glimmer Train Stories. This is her first national publication. 
The newest issue of 
The Cleveland State University Poetry Center 
The 
The 
The Magic Laundry, by Jacob M. Appel won last year’s 
Fiction
Trouble Sleeping by Abdul Ali, winner of the 2014 
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The winner of 
Winner of The 2014 Green Rose Prize from New Issues, 
“Eleven Stories of Water and Stone” by Aurvi Sharma is the winner of the 
1st place goes to Lillian Li of Ann Arbor, MI [Photo credit: Christopher Wang]. She wins $1500 for “Parts of Summer” and her story will be published in Issue 96 of Glimmer Train Stories. This will be her first print publication.
In his debut collection, Matthew Siegel explores his body’s fight with Crohn’s Disease and the struggle to remain one’s self in the face of illness. Winner of the University of Wisconsin Press’s 2015 
Editor Stephen Corey opens the Spring 2015 issue of 
Press 53 has awarded Rebecca Foust the winner of the 
Jasmine Sawers piece “The Weight of the Moon” was chosen, as Chinquee notes, beecause “This piece represents, to me, what it means to be in love. So in love that one wants to capture the being one’s in love with and keep it to one’s self. Not realizing, at first, that this may produce harm. Ultimately this piece renders, to me, one’s growth, the grief in letting go, and what a love that is in itself.”
Fiction Contest judged by Judge Lily Hoang