2021 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction
Winner:
The Science Hour, by Paul Byall
Finalists:
Todd, by Matthew Farrell
Wandering Boy, by Jim Gish
The Faith Healer, by Ciera McElroy
2021 Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction
Winner:
Towel Racks, by Wilson MacConnachie
Finalists:
I Will Tell You This Much, and Then We’ll Never Talk About It, by April Ford
Cassandra’s Prophecy to No One in Particular, by Anna Hundert
After That, Try This:, by Christiana Louisa Langenberg
Distance, by Treena Thibodeau
2021 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction
Winner:
Some Things You’ll Do When You Would Rather Be Happy, by Laurie Marshall
Finalists:
Career Change, by Lisa K. Buchanan
Museum of Grand Gestures, by Danielle Claro
Paper Saints, by Tommy Dean
Letter to My Coroner, by Christina Litchfield
The Wild Plums Are Blooming, by Mark Schimmoeller
2021 Lascaux Prize in Poetry
Winner:
Saving Sgt. Billings, by Kari Gunter-Seymour
Finalists:
Directions Back to Childhood, by Judith Waller Carroll
In Her Last Days, by Peter Dudley
Five Pieces to Assemble After the Quarantine, by Molly Lanzarotta
Gratitude, by Scudder Parker
The Poem of the World, by Scudder Parker
Pillow, by Claire Taylor
For an Osage Orange Tree (and the names she’ll answer to), by Angela Winsor
is meant to be heard as well as read, and in fact words were vocalized eons before they were ever committed to clay or parchment. Storytelling began around campfires. We seek prose and poetry that continue the tradition.
