Announcing the eight finalists
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Announcing the eight finalists
Open in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art.
“…I can see it’s a black, shrunken stick about ten feet high, stripped of the bark I once ran my fingers over.”
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“…my parents’ divorce agreement, a tarot deck, an armadillo that sang a funny song when you squeezed its belly…”
“He’s not unreasonable, he tells me. But he’s genuinely alarmed by the extent of the first-round edits.”
“The sky peels back like a tinfoil lid and something putrid creeps in...”
“To sew a jacket, one must first imagine it fragmented.”
“Everything was ours, our reality untamed by time and misogyny, and the price we’d pay for living remained alien to us.”
“If ever a saint could be described as not giving any fucks, it would be her.”
“He loved the sense that sex could be an intervention between two people.”
“You can tell a lot about a person by their Starbucks order.”
“I’ve seen too much writing lately that makes metaphors of hunger.”
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This year’s Breakout! Writers Prize Winners: Chelsea Dingman and Tzu Hsien (Charlene) Huang