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Contests

Boston Review is currently closed for contest submissions. A list of prior winners of our short story and poetry contests can be found below.

 

Aura Estrada Short Story Contest


Parashar Kulkarni, The Origin of Cow Therapy (2022)
Yiru Zhang, Dear Mothers, We Are No Longer Lost (2021)
Yeoh Jo-Ann, Dog Tiger Horse (2020)
Sabrina Helen Li, Mother, Grow My Baby (Fall 2019)
Neshat Khan, The Neighbors (Spring 2019)
Herselman Hattingh, The Recorder (2018)
Gina Balibrera, Álvaro (2017)
Mikayla Ávila Vilá, Trumpeteers (2016)
Barbara Hamby, Dole Girl (2015)
Leslee Becker, Severance (2014)
Kerry-Lee Powell, There Are Two Pools You May Drink From (2013)
Alexandra Thom, The Piano (2012)
Kalpana Narayanan, Aviator on the Prowl (2011)
Adam Sturtevant, How Do I Explain? (2010)
Jessica Treglia, Canceled (2009)
Patricia Engel, Desaliento (2008)
Padma Viswanathan, Transitory Cities (2007)
Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (2006)
Lisa Chipongian, Intramuros (2005)
D. S. Sulaitis, If It’s Anywhere, It’s Behind Us (2004)
Gale Renee Walden, Men I Don’t Talk to Anymore (2003)
Manini Nayar, Home Fires (2002)
Kate Small, One Night a Year (2001)
Girija Tropp, The Pretty Ones Have Their Uses (2001)
Pauls Toutonghi, Regeneration (2000)
Jacob M. Appel, Shell Game with Organs (1999)
Kris Saknussemm, Unpracticed Fingers Bungle Sadly Over Tiny Feathered Bodies (1998)
Kiki Delancey, Jules Jr Michael Jules Jr (1997)
Mary Ann Jannazo, No Runs, No Hits, No One Left on Base (1996)
Tom Paine, The Milkman & I (1995)
Michael Dorris, Layaway (1994)


Annual Poetry Contest

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