Recent Contest Results

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2023 Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction

Winner:

The Demulcent of Shame, by Jason Prokowiew

Finalists:

Madness: A Reader’s Companion, by Wendy Chen
Raiders of the Lost and Found, by Mary Liza Hartong

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2023 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction

Winner:

So Slow That It Sounds True, by Vanessa Tamm

Finalists:

The Escape Artist, by Partridge Boswell
1969, by Kathryn Kulpa

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2023 Lascaux Prize in Poetry

Winner:

Capturing the Scent of Rain, by Karen Paul Holmes

Finalists:

Metastasis, by Ja’net Danielo
Sunday Morning, by John Glowney
Not, by B. Fulton Jennes
Watching You Nap Beneath a Faded Quilt, by Angela Chaidez Vincent

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2022 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction

Winner:

Brooklyn Bridge, by Grace Shuyi Liew

Finalists:

Things Are Different Now, by Karen McIntyre
The Imbeciles, by Devon Ross

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It all began around a campfire…

Beautiful language

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.

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