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The 2005
Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories , the best of the best short
fiction, featuring a story by Michael J. Sullivan, selected by Robert Olen
Butler
These eleven stories--Michael J. Sullivan's winning story, "Unfound," and ten finalists--show the range possible in
the contemporary literary short story and offer a snapshot of some
of the best writing by established and emerging literary talents.
From a pool of over seven hundred stories, some published in very well-known
journals, and many unpublished, our panel of readers selected these
ten finalists, the best of the best, in 2005.
The Winner and Finalists:
- Michael J. Sullivan, "Unfound" (2005
Winner)
- Cheryl Alu, "Girl"
- Jacob M. Appel, "Shell Game with Organs"
- Kerry Dolan, "Falling Off the George Washington Bridge"
- Alicia Gifford, "Gorgeous World"
- Alison Lee Kinney, "Term"
- Phil LaMarche, "In the Tradition of My Family"
- Cris Mazza, "Our Time Is Up"
- Jeff Parker, "The Taste of Penny"
- Bill Pettitt, "This Is Not About Me"
- Peter Paul Smith, "Kleebe"
- Alia Yunis, "A Nearly Blonde Christmas"
Matthew J. Sullivan received his M.F.A. from the University of Idaho and B.A. from the University of San Francisco. He has been a resident at the Yaddo Colony, and his work has been published in The Florida Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, 580-Split, The Evansville Review, Fugue, and The Bloomsbury Review. He teaches writing at Big Bend Community College in central Washington, and is currently at work on a literary mystery set in a rural zoology museum.
[Click here for the New Contest
Guidelines]
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