Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our inaugural 2019 Fall Contest, which was judged by Akil Kumarasamy (fiction), Monica Sok (poetry), Emily Bernard (nonfiction). We have decided not to award a winner or finalists in art, judged by Helena Anrather. We want to thank everyone who entered the Contest for sharing their work with us, as well as our wonderful judges, and express our congratulations to the winners and finalists. You can click on the title of each piece to read it in full. Winners will be posted on Thursday, October 17th, with finalists to be published throughout the following weekend; we will update this post accordingly.
Nonfiction
Winner: “Mother and the Heart Stones” by Tammy Delatorre
Finalist: “The Sweet Spot” by N.R. Robinson
Finalist: “witnessing” by Charlene Francois
Finalist: “Elephant Hill” by Grace Segran
Fiction
Winner: “Between the Meat World and the Real World” by Angie Sijun Lou
Finalist: “Sachi & The Yurt” by Samantha Neugebauer
Finalist: “RipCord” by Steven Fromm
Poetry
Winner: poems by Emily Hunerwadel
Finalist: “Custom Earths” by Alex Niemi
Finalist: “Dominion” and “Interior” by Jari Bradley
Finalist: “Sabado en Alausi/Saturday in Alausi” by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
