2022 Prose Contest Finalists

The Finalists 
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 is Kelcey Ervick.

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)