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30 Below Contest Winners—2018


Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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


FIRST PLACE

MADISON DETTLINGER
All the Girls Are Fat in Heaven (story)


SECOND PLACE

ARIA ABER
Reading Rilke at Lake Mendota, Wisconsin
and Other Poems


THIRD PLACE

ANNA BESH
Asteroid B612 (story)


FINALISTS

Claire Agnes
Stick Horses   (story)

Alexandria Hall
People Fall All the Time  (poetry)

Sacha Idell
A Shrine at the Inn   (story)

Zack Rybak
Herefrom  (poetry)

Kate Selker
Frog  (story)

Felicity Sheehy
Losing the Farm  (poetry)

Dujie Tahat
Cul-de-Sac  (poetry)



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