30 Below Contest Winners—2016

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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


FIRST PLACE


SECOND PLACE



FINALISTS

Jenessa Abrams
Explain It to Me  (story)

Ebony Chinn
Tradition (poetry)

Thomas Evans
A Lapdog and a Butterfly  (novel excerpt)

L. A. Johnson
Silvering (poetry)

E. K. Ota
Cold  (story)

Meghann Plunkett
Gaslight (poetry)

Michael Sears

Long Tran
Whitewashed  (video)


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