Our 2020 SHORT STORY CONTESTS is now completed. Access video (first 1 hours 4 minutes) of winner recitations and their stories below.

Watch our Panel on  Gatsby at Large in the Public Domain: What’s Next? is also on the video from 1:10 to 2:34 

Congratulations to our 2020 Short Story Contest Winners!

(click story titles for PDFs of stories)

Adult winners

First Prize:

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Rates and Vessels

Raisa Tolchinsky

Video: 51:30 -106

Finalists:

 
Golden Boy

Luke Woodard

Video 38:30-51

An Empty Nest

Briana Maley

Video 28 -38:30

Student winners

First Prize:

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When It Rains

Finn Periz

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Finalists:

The Ocean in My Room

Amanda Wu

Love Languages

Caroline Dinh

Special thanks to Davina Thrower Smith,

Mary Hopkins and

Nate Brown and

Eric Carzon

for their leadership on the contest as well as volunteers from The Bethesda Writer's Center  for their story reviews and to the Center for its  logistical help making reviews go smoothly.