Many thanks to our TQ2 Prose Open contest judge Matt Bell!
Winner
–Laps by JoAnna Novak
Runners-Up
–The Unreliable Patient by Andrea Witzke Slot
–The Longevity of Bone by Laurel Blossom
–Nature: An Essay by Christine Marshall
Editor’s Honorable Mention
Prose & Cons: Considerations of a Woman with Two Genres by Julie Marie Wade
Finalists
–My Uncle’s Last Day in Hospice by Jodi Barnes
-A Slow Kind Of Unraveling by Amy Butcher*
–The Boiling Glass by Okla Elliott
–Intertidal Zone by Maria Finn
–Come Morning by Temim Fruchter
–Sorrow by Kim Henderson
–My Father, The Swimmer by Bernard Horn
-Learning to Breathe by Jon Kerstetter*
–Ring-A-Round The Rosie by Paul Lenehan
–Diamond Vehicle by Caroline Picard
–Seeing the Snow by Anne Raeff
–The Spider Web by Mary Shartle
–Twins by Gabriel Welsch
–Sweet Nothing: A Manifesto by Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
–Appearance of the Deer Woman: Diptychs by Laurie Saurborn Young
*Authors prefer to keep these stories unpublished for the time being