N30B Contest Winners—2009

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

(All entrants in the Contest were between the ages of eighteen and thirty.)



   FIRST PLACE   ($1,500)
   MONTANA RAY   The Blessing   




   SECOND PLACE   ($750)
   GREG BROWN   Smoke Jumpers




   THIRD PLACE   ($300)
   CHRISTA HILLSTROM   Depth of Field



TEN FINALISTS  ($100)

Carrie Braman   View from Bellosguardo
Ashley Kunsa   Go Hungry
Kate Levin   Last Run
Michael Mitnick   Babs the Dodo: A Sad Comedy
Golan Moskowitz   Part Hole
Richard Sonnenmoser   Vacation Bible School
Diana Spechler   Transcendent and Brilliant and True
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy   Hello to Rose
Emily Van Kley   Old Machines
Sara Zandieh   The Pool Party


DON’T MISS:

The Winter 2010 Story Contest, with a $4,000 First Prize, a $1,500 Second Prize, a $500 Third Prize, and five finalists receiving $100 each. Open to fiction and nonfiction. All entries will be considered for publication.
The contest runs from January 1 to March 31, 2010.