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Everyone Has A Story: 2019 Short Story Contest Winners

Post Published: September 21, 2019

Congratulations to our Winners!

We had an incredible 129 entries into this summer's Everyone Has a Story short story contest.

Now that our committee of readers has had a chance to review each one, we're excited to present the winners:

  • 1st Place: "Takakura in Decline" by Kelton Russell
  • 2nd Place: "The High Cost of Coupons" by Jess Stork Glicoes
  • 3rd Place: "Windows" by David Slater

We hope that you enjoy reading them!

September 21, 2019 by Web Editor Filed Under: News

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  1. Ingrid says

    September 23, 2019 at 5:36 PM

    I love that you held the short story contest and enjoyed reading the winning entries. But I want to know more about these authors!!! Could you include a brief author bio with each entry?

    • Web Editor says

      September 25, 2019 at 3:36 PM

      Hi Ingrid,

      We’ll take that as a suggestion for if we run the contest again next year.

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