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2019 The Halifax Fiction Prize Winner

by ASF Editors | October 3, 2019

Photo by Erwan HesryWe’re delighted to announce that our wonderful judge Rebecca Makkai has selected the winner of The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize. We received many terrific submissions—thank you for giving us the opportunity to read your work!

Winner: “Visitors” by Rachel Vogel

Judge’s Citation
“This story made me tremendously nervous, which is about the highest compliment I can give: It made me care, unsettled me, and had me holding my breath. Looking back on the actual events of the story, they’re somewhat commonplace—the kind of day-gone-awry someone might toss off as an anecdote—and the fact that this author has wound them so tight and found such depth in them is a feat. So is the seeming effortlessness of the telling.”

RACHEL VOGEL’s work has appeared in Harvard Review, Narrative Magazine, Potomac Review, Quarterly West, and other publications. Her creative nonfiction short “Cutting” was made into a literary video. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles, where she lives. She has practiced law and raised three children.

 

 


Our deepest thanks to Rebecca Makkai for judging, to The Burdine Johnson Foundation for their generous support of this contest, and to all of you for submitting your stories. And congrats to Rachel! Look out for the winning story in an upcoming issue of American Short Fiction!

 

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“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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