30 Below Contest Winners—2015

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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

FIRST PLACE

JENNY XIE
Villa Palms

SECOND PLACE

LEILA CHATTI
Hometown Nocturne and Other Poems

THIRD PLACE

MAYA CATHERINE POPA
A Kind of Thinking and Other Poems

FINALISTS

Anders Carlson-Wee

Checking for Ticks and Finding Scott (Poetry)

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Learning Yiddish and Family Portrait (Poetry)

Tracy O’Neill

As Though Death Were a Bouquet (Story)

Danez Smith

happy hour and If America (Poetry)

Monica Sok

Tuol Sleng (Poetry)

Diana Xin

Last Night with the Brothers K (Humor)

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