30 Below Contest Winners—2019

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

(All entrants in the contest were between the ages of eighteen and thirty.)

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FIRST PLACE

KELSEY HENNEGEN
We Spoke of Death and Other Poems

SECOND PLACE

FELICITY SHEEHY
The First People on Mars and Other Poems

THIRD PLACE

ERIN MARIE LYNCH
Bodily Assumption and Other Poems

FINALISTS

Anna Besh

Your Ghost, a short short

Jessica Dionne

After the Fertility Test and

 

The Lime Tree, poems

Amelia Getahun-Hawkins

Werewolves and Other Intangible Things,

 

a short story

J. P. Grasser

There but for the Grace of God and

 

Ground Squirrels, poems

A. D. Lauren-Abunassar

Flightless, a poem

Stephanie Pushaw

The Night Before, a short story

Natasha Rao

Old Growth, a poem

Djenanway Se-Gahon

Jellyfish Movement of Ghosts, a poem

Claire Seymour

Long Weekend, a short story

Sophia Veltfort

Generalized Barotrauma on a

 

Fifteenth Birthday, a short short

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And Don’t Miss:

The Winter 2025 Story Contest, with $5,000 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: March 31, 2025.

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