Winner of Our 2026 Editor’s Prize in Creative Nonfiction!

We are thrilled to announce the winner of our 2026 Editor’s Prize in Creative Nonfiction! Winners receive publication and a thousand dollars. The winning essay will appear in THE FLORIDA REVIEW Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 2027, on sale in March 2027. All contest entrants received a year’s subscription to the magazine.

“The Namesake,” by M.D. McIntyre

M.D. McIntyre is a writer and plant enthusiast living in the Minneapolis arts district. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Sycamore Review, The Southampton Review, and many other lovely journals. You can find her on Instagram @m.d.mcintyre and read her author interviews online at The Rumpus, Write or Die Tribe, MQR, and Normal School. Her memoir in essays, Stereo Instructions, is forthcoming with Cornerstone Press in 2027.