30 Below Contest Winners—2015

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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

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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)

And Don’t Miss:

The Spring 2020 Story Contest, with $5,000 in prizes.
Entry deadline: Midnight PDT, July 31, 2020. Please see the Guidelines.

The 12th Annual Poetry Contest, with $3,300 in prizes.
Entry deadline: Midnight PDT, July 17, 2020. Please see the Guidelines.

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