Balcones Fiction Prize. $1,500. Katherine Karlin for Send Me Work (TriQuarterly). Judge: Jan Reid.

2012 Tampa Review Prize. $2,000. Jennifer Key for The Old Dominion (University of Tampa Press).

2012 Playboy College Fiction Award. $3,000. Don Peteroy for “The Circuit Builders.” Publication in the October 2012 issue.

South Carolina First Novel Prize. $1,000. Susan Tekulve for The Garden of Stone (Hub City Press). Judge: Josepine Humphreys.

2012 Idaho Prize for Poetry. $1,000. Dawn Lonsinger for Whelm (Lost Horse Press). Judge: Nance Van Winckel.

Glimmer Train June Fiction Open Competition:

First place: Stefani Nellen. $2,500 for “Men in Pink Tutus.” Publication in the Fall 2013 issue.
Second place: Tom Kealey. $1,000 for “The Lost Brother.”
Third place: Ben Fowlkes. $600 for “Something Something Land Down Under.”

2012 Rona Jaffe Foundationi Writers’ Awards. $30,000 in prize money.

Julia Elliott (fiction)
Christina Nichol (Fiction)
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter (Poetry)
Rachel Swearingen (Fiction)
Kim Tingley (Nonfiction)
Inara Verzemnieks (Nonfiction)

11^th Annual Gival Press 2012 Oscar Wilde Poetry Award. Henry Hughes for “Action.”