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N30B Contest Winners—2012


Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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


FIRST PLACE

GEORGE DAVID CLARK
Python in a Grand Piano (poetry)


SECOND PLACE

EMILIA PHILLIPS
Snake Woman (poetry)


THIRD PLACE

SHUBHA SUNDER
The Western Tailor (short story)


FINALISTS

Jason Arment
My War (short story)
Melissa Barrett
Paraclete and The Great Die-Up (poetry)
Lauren Markham
Just a Cupfull (short story)
Rachel Morgenstern-Claren
Evening Gray, Morning Red (poetry)


Matthew Nienow
Self-Portrait with Hammer and Reprise (poetry)
William Shih
Heisenberg (short story)
Adam Soto
A Collective Approach (short story)
Marina Weiss
Mikveh (poetry)
Matthew Wimberley
Words for my Father from Salmon, Idaho (poetry)
Nicholas Wong
Sacrifice (photography)


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