30 Below Contest Winners—2019


Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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

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

And Don’t Miss:

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