Last week, we posted the longlist of finalists for the 2013 Awards program — Fiction Category. Here is the shortlist…

Matthew Burnside — Bestiary and Other Tales of Monsters

Dan Moreau — A Tour of North American Ruins

Sandy Maren — Otherside Gigs

Rosalia Scalia — Sister Rafaele Heals the Sick and Other Stories

Daniel Browne — Swing State and Other Stories

Melanie J. Cordova — The Hill Spirit

Mimi Lipson — The Cloud of Unknowing

April L. Ford — The Poor Children

Stephen Eoannou — Muscle Cars

Daniel Mueller — Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey

J.D. Smith — Quarter