Recent Contest Results

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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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2022 Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction

Winner:

You or Someone You Know, by B.A. Van Sise

Finalists:

Bulimics Go to the Gas Station, by Chloe Cook
Back to Me, by Stephanie Vanderslice

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2022 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction

Winner:

In the Museums of Heaven and Hell, by Goldie Goldbloom
Third place winner of the 2022 Bridport Prize

Finalists:

Points of Entry, by Abbie Barker
The Marked Book, by Sean Gill
I Baked a Cake as Big as Our House, by Anna Mantzaris

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2022 Lascaux Prize in Poetry

Winner:

Glyphs of a Gentle Going, by B. Fulton Jennes

Finalists:

Ars Poetica With Clickbait, by Rebecca Foust
The Likes of Us, by Ken Holland
Send It, Send It, by Karen Paul Holmes
Sleep While the Baby Sleeps, by Jackleen Holton
How Time Works on the Southern Plains, by Justin Hunt
Toward the End of March, by Justin Hunt
Two-Man Saw, by B. Fulton Jennes
Night Flight, by Judy Kaber
The Night Yard, by Ellen Romano
Items on the Nebraska Homestead, 1889, by Pam Vap

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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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Lascaux Vol 9

by Stephen Parrish, with the editors of The Lascaux Review