Read the 2015 winners here.




Read the 2014 winners here.


30 Below Contest Winners—2016

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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


FIRST PLACE

WILLIAM BREWER
Reunion and Other Poems


SECOND PLACE

JAVIER ZAMORA
Sonoran Song and Other Poems


THIRD PLACE

MONICA SOK
Lancaster General Hospital and Other Poems


FINALISTS

Jenessa Abrams
Explain It to Me  (story)

Ebony Chinn
Tradition (poetry)

Thomas Evans
A Lapdog and a Butterfly  (novel excerpt)

L. A. Johnson
Silvering (poetry)

E. K. Ota
Cold  (story)

Meghann Plunkett
Gaslight (poetry)

Michael Sears
You Are Merely Part of This (story)

Long Tran
Whitewashed  (video)


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.