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.
Alexander Weinstein is the author of the short story collections Universal Love and Children of the New World, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a best book of the year by NPR and Electric Literature. He is the founder and director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and his fiction has appeared in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Experimental Writing, and many other journals and anthologies. His short story 
If you are also going to Baltimore this week for AWP, be sure to stop by The Florida Review table (T877).
