By Chidima Anekwe / First Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction /          Though Chioma had been raised Catholic, she never minded...

By Nancy L. Davis / Second Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction /         Perspiration blanketed Lena’s face as she carried two fat...

By Laurie Lathem / Third Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction /           When I go with my girlfriend to the sex shop to buy a...

By Kristina Kasparian / Second Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction /             The stench clings to the flickering neon...

By Shantanu M / Third Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction /             The cement tile on the threshold of my old house would...

By Em Palughi / First Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry /         Zugunruhe     n., Migratory restlessness   I counted your breaths...

By Heather Gluck / Second Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry /         I assumed the meaning of these things: there was no blade...

By Stevie Chedid / Third Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry /         Mama is off to Medjugorge. She asks me to write my prayers in...

By Stacey Balkun / First Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Flash /             Believe her when she says she loves, you, baby, your...

By Bridget Goldschmidt / Second Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Flash /             They were all playing in the pool that day: Midge,...

By Caressa Layne / Third Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Flash /             Kate draws a revolver from a holster as anyone else...

By Josina Manu Maltzman / First Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction /             We arrive late, a little after 6am, and...