MAYDAY FICTION CONTESTS
2022
March Madness Flash Fiction Winner: “How We Were Born” by Lucy Zhang
Second Place: “Parts I Know” by Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera
Third Place: “No Story” by Himan Heidari and “A Cow Stood in a Field” By Louise Bierig
2021
Winner: “Shapeless,” by Haley Kennedy. Judge: Kali Wallace.
Finalists included “Paradise” by Joshua Beggs; “The Book of Rusty” by Benjamin Drevlow; “Tia Marilena’s Rainbow Eggs” by Xenia Lane; “Lolly Pop” by Toby Lloyd; and “Valley State” by Reilly Weed. Semifinalists included “Verge” by Emma Eisler; “The Management” by Ron Heacock; “Nudists” by Jeffery Long; and “A Trip to Valpo” by Mark Williams.
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MAYDAY POETRY CONTESTS
2022 Micro-Chapbook Contest
Winner: This Body I Have Tried to Write by Ja’net Danielo
Shortlisted finalists: Like the Vultures by Ash Durrance; Mud (Fieldnotes from a Juvenile Psychiatric Institute) by Kelly Gray; formula for dissolving by Aimee Herman; and Nanny Fairchild Defies Immolation by Kathleen Jones.
Continued finalists: Sugar Tongue Milk by Kelly Gray; Short History of Falling in the Midwest by Michael Levan; Remi, in the Night by Remi Recchia; My Family was like a Russian Novel by Carla Sarett; and Kaleidoscope Poison by Danae Younge.
2021
Winner: “Garçon,” by A. Shaikh. Judge: Jacques Rancourt.
Finalists included “Southern Thundering” by Gustav Hibbett; “WHAT MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME” by Michael Meyerhofer; “During the Pandemic, I Watch Caddyshack Again & Again” by Christina Olson; and “The Cousin’s Secret” by Lindsay Wilson.
