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...

By Sandra Jackson-Opoku / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / This is the moment I recall, a memory blurred by nostalgia...

By Shayla Frandsen / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / Mom visited Marty in a dream again. In the dream, Mom was standing...

By Lisa Corn / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / On his way through the city back to the old man, Ivan noticed the pattern...

By Alan Sincic / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / We all of us like to believe, now and again, when the body blooms...

By Peggy L. Shrum / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / A tree just fell. It must have been really close by; I startled...

By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / 8:44PM, Meijia Wu the last tour bus pulls away grandmothers...

By R.B. Simon / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / A few years after I left, they tore down the shopping mall. Gentrifying...

By Nicole Buzzelli / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / I do not wish to be saved from solitude. Bless me with it, a kiss...

By Cindy Dean Jones / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / And on a day when I most desperately needed hope, when the...