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Short Forms Contest 2019: The Shortlist

Contest Winners

Thank you to all the writers who shared their short form pieces with us and our esteemed fiction judge, Gwen Benaway! Here are the twelve longlisted submissions from this year’s contest.

The Short Forms shortlist is here! Congratulations to the five writers whose contest submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Gwen Benaway!

Room‘s 2019 Short Forms Contest: The Shortlist

“Baby Shark” by Sanchari Sur
“From All Four Corners” by Roshni Riar
“Her Life’s Work” by Jennilee Austria
“How To Find A Palm Tree” by Jasmine Gui
“love letter to a broken archive” by Kai Minosh Pyle

 

The list of winners will be coming your way next week. Feel free to check out our 2020 Fiction Contest, which will be open until March.

Photo credit: Melanie Evelyn

 

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