Finalists
THERE ARE BLACK ROSES UNDER THE SUN by Cris Blak
COMPOST by Matt Hoverman
ENORMITY, GIRL, AND THE EARTHQUAKE IN HER LUNGS by Chelsea Wooley

Semi Finalists
THE HAUNTING OF HOOVERTON HOTEL by Jacob Albarella
LUMIN by Emma Gibson
THE APPLIANCE DEPARTMENT by Bella Poynton
WALKING WHILE BLACK by Philip Christian Smith
WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS by Christian St. Croix

Runners-Up
• THE LOST WOMEN by Nubia Monks
• SIX MEN DRESSED LIKE JOSEPH STALIN by Dianne Nora
• WIFE OF HEADLESS MAN INVESTIGATES HER OWN DISAPPEARANCE by Yussef El Guindi

Semi-Finalists
• ASSUMING POSITIVE INTENTIONS by Deneen Reynolds-Knott
• BLOODY NOSES by Matilda Corley Schulman
• DHARMA by Nanya Agrawal
• FEAR AND WONDER by Jason Tseng
• FUGITIVES IN AMERICA by Jordan Ratliff
• GREEK TRAGEDY by Lia Romeo
• GROWING UP WITH BIG HAIR by Diana Suarez Mucci
• IN THE TIME OF THE APOCALYPSE by Kendra Augustin
• THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF GLASS by Dylan Zwickel
• THE MOUSE & THE MOUSTACHE by Anthony Dodge
• A NEW NEWER NORMAL by John Mabey
• THE PRINCESS AMPERSAND HAS SOME NOTES by Tiffany Antone
• REUNION by Nandita Shenoy
• SIGNS AND WONDERS (A DELIRIUM FOR A WOUNDED WORLD) by Fengar Gael
• SISTER by Lindsay Bourne
• TAKE ME BACK TO YELLOWSTONE by Mike Nappi
• WITHOUT GOD AS MY LOVER by Megan Medley
• THE WORLD FROM KAMPALA by Chris Weikel