The story of the week for March 8 to 12 is…

Elsewhere by Andrin Albrecht

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for February were:

First Laugh by Marc Littman
Impressing an Old Flame at Our 25th High School Reunion by Bob Thurber
I Call My Mother by Jennifer Freed
Juniper by Michael Anthony Fagan
Unsinkable by David Derey

The winner of the February 2021 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

I Call My Mother

There’s so much depth to the moment conveyed in Jennifer’s story. There’s a pain of distance, both physical and emotional, but also a closeness and a sort of warmth felt from “observing” the relationship between the mother and her nurse. Excellent work.

The story of the week for March 1 to 5 is…

Bonkers by Robert Markovich

The story of the week for February 22 to 26 is…

Unsinkable by David Derey

The story of the week for February 15 to 19 is…

Juniper by Michael Anthony Fagan

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for January were:

A False Hope by L.D. Water
Home by Yash Seyedbagheri
A Country Walk by Ben Mimmack
Homecoming by Finn Burnett
Roxana by Karalyn Wayne
The Tragedy of P–k by C.M.F. Wright

The winner of the January 2021 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Homecoming

Finn Burnett did a great job of setting off the cycle of hopelessness and hopefulness in the character’s life, with beautiful use of language.

The story of the week for February 8 to 12 is…

I Call My Mother by Jennifer Freed

The story of the week for February 1 to 5 is…

Impressing an Old Flame at our 25th High School reunion by Bob Thurber
and
First Laugh by Marc Littman

The winner of the 2020 Story of the Year, along with the $50 prize and enshrinement in the Hall of Fame, is:

Your Pills by Jennifer L. Freed

We were blessed by Jennifer’s contributions to the site this year. She won three Story of the Month awards in four months (a feat made that much more remarkable by Yash Seyedbagheri’s accomplishment of the same thing later in the year). Your Pills was her strongest piece, centred around the beautifully poetic and hopeful turn of phrase “You take the sky / into your body / with your morning tea”.

Honourable mentions go to Cracked Lives by Yash Seyedbagheri, Extra Time by David Holloway, and Beautiful Things by Jennifer L. Freed.

The story of the week for January 25 to 29 is…

Roxana by Karalyn Wayne