{"id":9509,"date":"2026-06-08T22:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:36:21","slug":"winner-of-our-2026-editors-prize-in-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/2026\/06\/08\/winner-of-our-2026-editors-prize-in-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of Our 2026 Editor&#8217;s Prize in Fiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled to announce the winner of our <strong>2026 Editor\u2019s Prize in Fiction<\/strong>! Winners receive publication and a thousand dollars. The winning story will appear in THE FLORIDA REVIEW Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 2027, on sale in March 2027. All contest entrants received a year\u2019s subscription to the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u201c<\/span>The Sorrow of Time Dealers,<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u201d<\/span>\u00a0by Alexander Weinstein<\/p>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9510\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/06\/Alexander-Weinstein-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/06\/Alexander-Weinstein-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/06\/Alexander-Weinstein-663x1024.jpeg 663w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/06\/Alexander-Weinstein-768x1186.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/06\/Alexander-Weinstein-995x1536.jpeg 995w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/06\/Alexander-Weinstein.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Alexander Weinstein is the author of the short story collections <em>Universal Love <\/em>and <em>Children of the New World<\/em>, which was chosen as a <em>New York Times<\/em> Notable Book of the Year, and a best book of the year by <em>NPR<\/em> and <em>Electric Literature<\/em>. He is the founder and director of The Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and his fiction has appeared in <em>Best American Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy<\/em>, <em>Best American Experimental Writing<\/em>, and many other journals and anthologies. His short story <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u201c<\/span>Saying Goodbye to Yang<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u201d<\/span> was adapted as the film <em>After Yang<\/em> by A24 Films, and was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, and Barack Obama<em>&#8216;<\/em>s Best Films of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We are thrilled to announce the winner of our 2026 Editor\u2019s Prize in Fiction! Winners receive publication and a thousand dollars. The winning story will appear in THE FLORIDA REVIEW Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 2027, on sale in March 2027. All contest entrants received a year\u2019s subscription to the magazine. &nbsp; \u201cThe Sorrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":9510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Winner of Our 2026 Editor&#039;s Prize in Fiction! - The Florida Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/2026\/06\/08\/winner-of-our-2026-editors-prize-in-fiction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Winner of Our 2026 Editor&#039;s Prize in Fiction! - The Florida Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; We are thrilled to announce the winner of our 2026 Editor\u2019s Prize in Fiction! 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