Announcing our Semifinalists for the First Annual Wolfson 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 Semifinalists

Jacob Appel, “One Extremity Too Many” (stories)

J.A. Bernstein, “Elegy 1991” (creative non-fiction)

Perle Besserman, “The Infamous Doctor Dee” (novel)

Sara Biggs Chaney and Michael Chaney, “Pinched Histories of the American Free Fight” (essays)

Rita Ciresi, “Other Women” (stories)

Mark Connelly, “Civilization” (stories)

Garnett Cohen, “Alzheimer’s Daughter” (essays)

Jon Davis, “In It for the Short Haul” (stories)

Matthew Duffus, “The Caretaker” (novella)

Sarah Giragosian, “Towards a Poetics of the Animal” (essays)

Katherine Haake, “The Touch of Another Hand” (memoir-in-essays)

Jayson Iwen, “Eden Street” (stories)

Nicole Jeffords, “A Trip to Visionland” (novella)

Nancy Ludmerer, “In the Shadow of the Law” (stories)

Willi Pascual, “The Shadow Master” (essays)

Doug Ramspeck, “Snow Crow” (stories)

Timothy Reilly, “The Island of Pettibone and Other Stories”

Ryan Shek, “There Are No Hurricanes in Michigan” (stories)

Alan Sincic, “Peripheral Vision” (stories)

Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Ruined a Little When We Are Born” (stories)