30 Below Contest Winners—2019


Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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


FIRST PLACE


SECOND PLACE


THIRD PLACE


FINALISTS

Anna Besh
Your Ghost, a short short

Jessica Dionne
After the Fertility Test and

 

Amelia Getahun-Hawkins

 
a short story

J. P. Grasser

 

A. D. Lauren-Abunassar
Flightless, a poem

Stephanie Pushaw
The Night Before, a short story

Natasha Rao
Old Growth, a poem

Djenanway Se-Gahon

Claire Seymour
Long Weekend, a short story

Sophia Veltfort

 
Fifteenth Birthday, a short short


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