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We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists for our 2025 Editor\u2019s Prizes in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry! Winners receive publication and a thousand dollars each. Winning work will appear in THE FLORIDA REVIEW<\/em> Vol. 49, No. 2, Spring 2026, on sale in March, 2026. All contest entrants receive a year’s subscription to the magazine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2025 Editor\u2019s Award for Fiction<\/strong><\/span>
\nWINNER:<\/strong>
\nSharon Wahl: \u201cDriving Lessons\u201d
\nSharon Wahl’s collection Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances<\/em> (Iowa, 2024) won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in publications including Harper’s<\/em>, the Chicago Tribune<\/em>, The Iowa Review<\/em>, Harvard Review<\/em>, and Wigleaf<\/em>. She’s online at www.sharonwahl.com.<\/p>\n

FINALISTS:<\/strong>
\nLara Palmqvist: “Bountiful”
\nBaird Harper: “Wreck of the Triumph”
\nAlan Sincic: “The Word”
\nEric Rasmussen: “Warmer”
\nSharon Solwitz: “Sex and History”
\nKatherine Cart: “Between the Floods”
\nTaylor Brown: “The Ghostbird”
\nJake Winn: “The Last Resort”<\/p>\n

\n

2025 Editor\u2019s Award for Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/span>
\nWINNER:<\/strong>
\nSheree Chua: \u201cOralities: Sea, Salt and Bone”
\nSheree Chua is an observer and occasional collaborator with the communities and tribes of the Philippine South, where she learns through shared stories and silences. She believes in listening as a form of care, and in the quiet strength of slow work.<\/p>\n

FINALISTS:<\/strong>
\nGiovanni Wolfram: “Father Poem”
\nRachel Rothenberg: “Variations on the Bodies Beneath our Feet”
\nGustavo P\u00e9rez Firmat: “Car Trouble”
\nHeather Sellers: “We Are Never, Ever Getting Back to Normal”
\nJulie Marie Wade: “Kith, in the Aftermath”<\/p>\n

\n

2025 Editor\u2019s Award for Poetry<\/strong><\/span>
\nWINNER:<\/strong>
\nSamuel Piccone: \u201cBlack Thumb\u201d
\nSamuel Piccone is the author of the chapbook Pupa<\/em> (Anhinga Press, 2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Sycamore Review<\/em>, Frontier Poetry<\/em>, Washington<\/em> Square<\/em> Review<\/em>, and RHINO<\/em>. He serves as poetry editor at Raleigh<\/em> Review<\/em>, and is an assistant professor at Iowa State University.<\/p>\n

FINALISTS:<\/strong>
\n“Ornament,” by Amy Raasch
\n“Twelve Songs of a Rural Queer,” by Cecilia Morris
\n“Pandemic Pantoum,” by Lauren Eggert-Crowe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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