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...

By K. Hari / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / at dawn on the balcony, clothesline strung up with birdsong before light and...

By Molly Pershin Raynor / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry /

By Lillian Emerick Valentine / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / My husband stands in army fatigues and ballet flats,...

By Alisha Acquaye / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / ⏳⏳⏳ Imagine my mom as a preteen in Ghana, bursting brown and just...

By Emily Withnall / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / He’d start fights with me on the rare occasions I tried to leave...

By Kosisochukwu W. Ugwuede / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / We are speeding toward Victoria Island—CJ, my driver and...

By Jenna Bly / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / Montreal, April 2005 The first part ended with a bird and the second part...

By Helen Han Wei Luo / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / In the dark desert passage between Yilin and Langtougou, I...

By Ber Anena / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / The boda boda man carrying Owino pulled right up to the main entrance of...