Read the 2014 winners here.




Read the 2013 winners here.


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)


And Don’t Miss:

The Spring Story Contest, with $5,000 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: July 31, 2025.

The Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, with $3,300 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: July 18, 2025.