Thanks to all those who entered the 2011 Short Fiction Contest. We appreciate the opportunity to read your work.

From more than 2,200 entries, guest judge Jim Shepard honored the following stories.

First Prize:
"A Good Thing" by Aimee LaBrie (Philadelphia, PA)

Second Prize:
"Now We Will Be Happy" by Amina Gautier (Chicago, IL)

Third Prize:
"How I Married Philip Glass" by B. G. Firmani (New York, NY)

Honorable Mentions:
"Nippon" by Bryant Davis (South Bend, IN)
"She Must Remember" by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier (San Leandro, CA)
"We Never Really Had Old Times" by Adam Lefton (Lafayette, IN)
"Fresh Water, Salt Sea" by M. L. Riordan (Stockholm, SWE)
"Healing Pain" by Douglas Silver (New York, NY)
"Plum Soda" by Navid Sinaki (Los Angeles, CA)
"Days of Being Mild" by Xuan Wang (San Francisco, CA)

First prize is $1,000; second prize $500; and third prize $250. The prizewinners and honorable mentions will be considered for representation by William Morris Endeavor, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, Aitken Alexander Associates, Barer Literary, the Gernert Company, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency.

The winning story, "A Good Thing" by Aimee LaBrie, will be published at this website as a special online supplement to the Spring 2012 issue.

The 2012 Short Fiction Contest opens July 1, 2012; for details, please visit the website this summer.

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