30 Below Contest Winners—2020


Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

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

FIRST PLACE

MADELEINE CRAVENS
Object Permanence and Other Poems


SECOND PLACE

SIMON SHIEH
Training in Yizhuang and Cutting Weight, poems


THIRD PLACE

ROB SHAPIRO
November Spell I and Solstice, End of Day, poems


FINALISTS

Anna Besh
For Tom, Forever Ago, a story

Kate Bond
The First Time and Other Poems

Britny Cordera
Mother of the Cane River Creoles, a poem

Sara Elkamel
What This Elegy Wants, a poem

Katie Golownia
The Favor, an essay

Charlotte Gross
Catching Light, a short short

Raisa Tolchinsky
Teshuvah, a poem

Amanda Vitale
Dry Heat, a story

Dylan Weir
In the Land of Long Distances, a poem


And Don’t Miss:

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