CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest 2022

Winners

First Place: Chelsea Biondolillo, “Weeds”
Second Place: Christine Hume & Laura Larson, “All the Women I Know (Sandra, Dani, Roma, Alex)”
Third Place: Jade Hidle, “Census”

Finalists

Maria T. Allocco: “Of This World”
Nadia Born: “Marriage: A Crossword”
Fowota Mortoo: “The Place I Call Home”
Andrew Romriell: “HIV-Positive”
Krystle May Statler: “Losing Blood”
Rain Wright: “Bird Language”
Jake Zawlacki: “A Shot”

The Rest of the Longlist

Erin Comerford: “Tunnels”
Starr Davis: “Nothing Free”
Christa Forster & Laura Lark: “Are You Content?”
Sandee Gertz: “Security Questions”
Amy Havel: “That Day, Somewhere Else”
Annie Liontas: “The Big Sleep”
K. S. Lokensgard: “A Kind of Fighting”
C. Quintana: “Mammals All the Same”
Peter Selgin: “Painting Stories”
Julie Marie Wade: “From the Jeopardy Category Known Lesbians: Who is Audre Lorde?”

Honorable Mentions

Karlen Chase: “Keeper”
Timothy Dyke: “Some Deft Segue”
Abby Manzella: “Glossary of Centralia, Pennsylvania”
Jā. R. Macki: “Linus Baby”
Petra McNulty: “The Wind Off the River: A Life in Fragments”
Joan Michelson: “Frontline Women”
Melissa Nunez: “Stay the Storm”
Amy Suzanne Parker: “Count Backwards”
Wally Suphap: “Thirteen Ways of Interrogating an Incident”
Peter Witte: “Next to Walking Man”