E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest Winners


$1,100 Grand Prize Winners

2009

    Rational Actions by Noah Edelson

Editors' Choices 2009:

    The Limits of My World by Johanna Lipford

    La Esperanza by Rodney Nelsestuen

2008

    Round Trip by A. Molotkov (nominated for the Pushcart Award)

2007

    When the Brakes Went by Stephen Schaurer (nominated for the Pushcart Award)

2006

    Sun Kissed by A.R. Kahn

2005

    Death and Popcorn by Megan Somogyi

2004

    Dozen Wheelbarrows by Gregg Cusick


Editors' Choices

2008

    What Could Be Said about Pedris Road by Ru S. Freeman

    On the Case by Jeff Kass

    The Transparent House by Edith Pearlman

2007

    Breakfast with Strangers by Sara L. Gmitter

    Between the Lines by Olga Levinzon

    Sunday's Catch by Catherine Mitchell

2006

    Babies on Rafts by Lones Seiber

    Bat by Sallie Bingham

    Esso by Lindsey Silken

2005

    Living with Fingers Crossed by Daniel Cubias

    Nameless by Sarah Halford

2004

    At the Fair by Martine Fournier

    Conquering Gravity by Sandra Bestland

   


Honorable Mention

2009

    Shannon Baldwin, The Death of Dena Begay (New Mexico)

    Jeffrey Clark, Shakespeare's Dog (California)

    Greg Cusick, Hidden Ball Trick (North Carolina)

    Myha Thi Do, To Boil Water (California)

    Judith Kirscht, The Camera's Eye (Washington)

    Elizabeth Kraushar, Melanie's Favorite (Kansas)

    Carolyn Moore, Numbers, Photography, and the End of Days (Oregon)

    Holly Patrone-Swiderski, Of Mermaids and Dolphins (New York)

    Matthew Pitt, Ugly American Understudies (Mississippi)

2008

    Greg Cusick, Latin for Ponder (North Carolina)

    Jaclyn Dwyer, Sisters, Eclipsed (Pennsylvania)

    Bruce Graham, Virgin Birth (Florida)

    Scott A. Jones, Blood (New Mexico)

    Amelia Kahaney, The Temp (New York)

    Alexander Maggio, Barnacles (Massachusetts)

    Eric Rawson, Glad to Be Going (California)

    M.A. Tuohy, Color Me Stupid (Georgia)

2007

    Thomas Gough, To Keep Ahead of Spring (New Zealand)

    Jeff Kass, The Naked Guy Is Dead (Michigan)

    Nancy McKinley, Goat Meat (Pennsylvania)

    Lydia Paar, Negative Space (Arizona)

    Edith Pearlman, Safari Shrink (Massachusetts)

    Jendi Reiter, Julian's Yearbook (Massachusetts)

    Anne Ring, The Festival (California)

    Arlene Sanders, Charlie Feathers (Virginia)

2006

    Ayala Cnaan, Interrogation Room (Pennsylvania)

    Jeff Kass, Don't Mess (Michigan)

    Clay McDermott, Generations (Iowa)

    Peter Ohren, Parting (Michigan)

    Eleanor Swanson, Harry Tristano (Colorado)

    Linda Warren, Once or Twice a Year, Tops (Louisiana)

2005

  • Dorothy K. Fletcher, My Singing Wheels (Florida)
  • Sarah Flygare, Learning to Squander (Washington)
  • Martine Fournier, Angelina's Scar (Michigan)
  • Andrew C. Gottlieb, The End of a Season (Washington)
  • Valerie M. Griggs, Floodgate (New York)
  • Henry E. Hack, Betrayal (New York)
  • Rick Jankowski, The Promise (Illinois)
  • Jocelyn Johnson, Pseudocyesis (Virginia)
  • John B. Kachuba, Foremost a Son (Ohio)
  • Ruth Moon Kempher, The Dog Fable (Florida)
  • C. Evans Mylonas, Assault by Cat (Texas)
  • Sally M. Nielsen, The Man from Illinois (Florida)
  • Elaine Neil Orr, The Hair Cut (North Carolina)
  • Sally Pont, My Starting Line (Maryland)
  • Macy Gardner Raymond, Get Your Goat (Massachusetts)
  • Franklin David Richardson, A Touch of Violence (Florida)
  • Amy Root, Solstice (Texas)
  • Arlene Sanders, Red Roses (Virginia)
  • Lones Seiber, Steps (Tennessee)
  • Miriam Wolf, Damnation (California)
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2004
  • Eric Flamm, My Partners (Oregon)
  • Kate Blackwell, Scaffolding (D.C.)
  • Judith Behrendt, Meeting the Mother (Arizona)