Non-Fiction
The 2017 Contest
The work submitted to Philadelphia Stories for this year’s Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry was ambitious and exciting.
By Courtney Bambrick
Poetry
Firestorm: Checagou – WINNER
In the tall stalks of plenty where prairie meets plains
By Nancy L. Davis
Poetry
Content Warning: Pantoum – RUNNER UP
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By Alejandro Escudé
Poetry
adoctrinado – RUNNER UP
indoctrinate: (1) to teach (someone) to fully accept
By Liliana Lule
Poetry
Extinction (I) – RUNNER UP
Cyanobacteria in primeval waves
By Elizabeth Bagby
Poetry
Duffey – HONORABLE MENTION
I had a brother at Khe Sahn
By Will Jones
Poetry
The Diameter of a Ringling Bros. Circus Ring – HONORABLE MENTION
The diameter of a circus ring is forty-two feet
By Gail Comorat
Poetry
Changes to Your Itinerary May Affect Your Fate – HONORABLE MENTION
My ticket doesn’t really say that. My ticket says “fare,” not “fate”
By Hayden Saunier
Poetry
Northbound Train – HONORABLE MENTION
First, there’s the gentle rumble of the train cars
By Kathleen O'Toole
Poetry
Milk Soup – Editor’s Choice
At 5 months my sister rejected
By Maggie Lily
Poetry
“coming to America” – Editor’s Choice
my grandmother is arrested 5 times
By Scarlet Gomez
Poetry
Murambi (Rwanda, 2008) – Editor’s Choice
There is no smell of death here. Even the lime
By Carlos Andrés Gómez
Poetry
subjunctivity – Editor’s Choice
fifteen.
By Liliana Lule
Fiction
Benched
Her daughter was in trouble.
By Michele Lombardo
Fiction
Duty
The parameters of the assignment were not at all clear.
By Pete Able
Non-Fiction
The Fix
Nestled in the back corner of my classroom
By Jennifer Rieger
Column
Let’s face it
Pretend that you find yourself in a scary situation.
By Aimee LaBrie
Column
Hello Story Lovers!
I’m excited to announce that I’m the new
By Susette N. Brooks
Interview
Molly Peacock Interview
“Women! Keep your writing in your purse. Don’t reach for that brochure in your dentist’s office waiting room: read your favorite writer—you. Get out those drafts from your bag and revel in your own ideas. That will get you to the next line, the next sentence.”
By Julia MacDonnell