Previous Contests
2019: Fiction / Nonfiction
Judge: Carmen Maria Machado
Deborah Jackson Taffa – Kiva Song
Lilly Dancyger – Negative Space
Joseph Holt – Your Nightmare

Negative Space
Lilly Dancyger
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2019: The 2040 Books James Alan McPherson Prize
Judge: Gish Jen
Christina Chiu – Beauty

Beauty
Christina Chiu
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2018: The 2040 Books James Alan McPherson Prize
Judge: Mat Johnson
Bonnie Chau – All Roads Lead to Blood

All Roads Lead To Blood
Bonnie Chau
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2017: Fiction / Nonfiction
Judge: Benjamin Percy
Wendy Fox – If the Ice Had Held
Doug Crandell – Tornado Season
Kate Wisel – Driving in Cars With Homeless Men

If the Ice Had Held
Wendy J. Fox
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2015: Fiction / Nonfiction
Judge: Emily St. John Mandel
Winners
A.A. Balaskovits – Magic for Unlucky Girls
Elizabeth Horneber – Chinese Red
Lisa Reisman – 5 Months 10 Years 2 Hours

Magic For Unlucky Girls
A.A. Balaskovits
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5 Months 10 Years 2 Hours
Lisa Reisman
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2013: Nonfiction
Judge: Lee Gutkind
Annita Sawyer — Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass
Allen Gee — My Chinese America
Mary Quade — Ideal Uncertainties

My Chinese-America
Allen Gee
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Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass
Dr. Annita Perez Sawyer
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Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey
Daniel Mueller
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Muscle Cars
Stephen G. Eoannou
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2011: Fiction/nonfiction
Judge: Alan Cheuse
Lance Larsen — Seventeen Ways to Float
Angie Chuang — The Four Words for Home
Emily Stone — In Search of Chocola: Love, Chocolate, and Language in Guatemala

The Four Words for Home
Angie Chuang
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2011: Poetry
Judge: Rose Solari
Winners
Jude Nutter – untitled selection
Katie Schmid – The Heaven and The Hangover
Charles Atkinson – untitled selection
2010
Judge: Robert Olen Butler
Winners
Tara Laskowski –Black Diamond City
Nicole Louise Reid – A Purposeful Violence
W.A. Smith – Einstein’s Fiddle
Screenplay Awards Grand Prizewinner: John Bengel – The Voyeur

Modern Manners For Your Inner Demons
Tara Laskowski
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Bystanders
Tara Laskowski
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2009
Judge: Pagan Kennedy
Winners
Matthew Pitt – Listening for Life
Nicole Louise Reid – This One Last Thing
Adam Sturtevant – Ease Chest Tuck Hid Debt Art

Attention Please Now: Stories
Matthew Pitt
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So There!
Nicole Louise Reid
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2007
Judge: Robert Olen Butler
Winners
Jacob Appel – Natural Selection
Genaro Smith – Dailies
Katherine Crawford – Deep Breathing Under Big Sky

The Biology of Luck
Jacob M. Appel
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Keowee Valley
Katherine Scott Crawford
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Before He Finds Her
Michael Kardos
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2004
Judge: Richard Currey
Winners
Bethany Harvey – Falling Rock
Joseph M. Schuster – A Saint in the Family
Whitney Purvis – Cuentitos Caoticos

The Might Have Been
Joe Schuster
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2002
Judge: Chris Offutt
Winners
Kenneth Cook – Last Call: The Texas Moon Stories
Cate McGowan – Thirty Men, Not One
Emily Raboteau – A Gesture of Belonging
W.A. Smith – Leaving and Girls, Past

The Professor’s Daughter: A Novel
Emily Raboteau
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Sons of Their Fathers: A Novella & Twelve Stories
W. A. Smith
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Last Call: Stories
K. L. Cook
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2001
Judge: Jayne Anne Phillips
Winners
Charlotte Gullick – By Way of Water
Kate Small – The B-Zone Open
Patricia Schaefer – Love Is Blue
Haruko Yamauchi – Witness
2000
Judge: Richard Currey
Winners
Mary L. Tabor – The Burglar: Stories
Maureen P. Stanton – Laundry
Carson H Wu – Different Brothers
Ira Sukrungruang – A Normal Thai Son

Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy
Ira Sukrungruang
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Woman Who Never Cooked: Stories
Mary L. Tabor
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