First Annual Prose Competition
The Wolfson Press Prose Prize is a $1,000 prize for a book manuscript in short fiction, novella, creative nonfiction, memoir, or essay (virtually any form of literary prose). Wolfson Press publishes the winning volume in its American Storytellers Series. This year's contest judge was Kelcey Ervick.
Katherine Haake, Winner
Other manuscripts accepted for publication:
Rita Ciresi, Other Women (new title forthcoming)
Doug Ramspeck, Snow Crow (new title forthcoming)
2022 Finalists
Jacob Appel, “One Extremity Too Many” (stories)
J.A. Bernstein, “Elegy 1991” (creative non-fiction)
Sara Biggs Chaney and Michael Chaney, “Pinched Histories of the American Free Fight” (essays)
Rita Ciresi, “Other Women” (stories)
Matthew Duffus, “The Caretaker” (novella)
Katherine Haake, “The Touch of Another Hand” (memoir-in-essays)
Nancy Ludmerer, “In the Shadow of the Law” (stories)
Willi Pascual, “The Shadow Master” (essays)
Doug Ramspeck, “Snow Crow” (stories)
Ryan Shek, “There Are No Hurricanes in Michigan” (stories)
Semifinalists
Perle Besserman, “The Infamous Doctor Dee” (novel)
Mark Connelly, “Civilization” (stories)
Garnett Cohen, “Alzheimer’s Daughter” (essays)
Jon Davis, “In It for the Short Haul” (stories)
Sarah Giragosian, “Towards a Poetics of the Animal” (essays)
Jayson Iwen, “Eden Street” (stories)
Nicole Jeffords, “A Trip to Visionland” (novella)
Timothy Reilly, “The Island of Pettibone and Other Stories”
Alan Sincic, “Peripheral Vision” (stories)
Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Ruined a Little When We Are Born” (stories)