Humor Story Contest
(Fall/Winter issue)

Deadline: October 17, 2024
Release: December 15, 2024

Contest Description

Due to our belief that everything would be better if we could laugh a little more, and after trying out a few different themes for this issue, we are dedicating the Fall/Winter issue permanently to Humor.

Entries can be fiction, nonfiction, or poetry—as usual, if it tells a story, and makes us laugh, it fits!

Click here to return to the Guidelines page and to enter.

Past Winners

2023 Grand Prize Winner
The Invitation by Angela Louise
2023 Honorable Mentions/Contributors
A Shot at Grief by Janet Travers
Airbnb by Sally Cobau
Cut and Dried by Michelle Kraft
Flight of the Wiener Dog by Paul Forster
Happier Endings by Cindy Schimanski
I Have Questions by Joseph J. Ridgway
If You Get the Chance by Mary F. Lee
It’s Good to Be Hip! by John F. Rifenberg
Josh Saw a UFO by Eric R Skinner
My *Not So* Silent Retreat by Joell Dunlap
No Bed of Roses by Robert English
On Being a Sympathetic CIS White Man Trying to Empathize with the Socio-Economic-Gendered-Racial Struggles of PoC, LGBTQ+, and
Non-CIS-White-Male Friends Without Being Either Pandering or Dismissive— by Bobby O’Rourke
The Closet by Casey Clifford Rock
The Essence of Wisdom by Robert H. Miller
The Far District by Greta Holt
The Pineapple Upside Down Cake Incident by Geoffrey K. Graves
Ulysses of Astoria by George H. Northrup
Waxing Gone Bad by Kate Redmond

2022

Grand Prize
Wild Turkey by William E. Burleson
Honorable Mentions/Contributors
Battleground by Jennifer Neves
Because I’m Cultured Like That by Ben Terry
Birks and Jerks by Eyal Cohen
Blood Buzz by Nathan Spicer
Career Advice for the Dying by Lisa Haneberg
Escape Artist by Christianna Soumakis
Found in Translation by Margaret Morth
Gender Bunny by J Mase III
Meditation on an Onion by Lollie Butler
Misdiagnosis by Sara Maria Greene
Monkey Pox by Melinda Goodman
My Job Application by Elizabeth Hill
On Shits, And How Often One Should Give Them by Jaiden Collier
Roomba by Ryan Murphy
Self Portrait as a Spermatozoon by Norman Goodwin
Shopping at Sears on a Snowy Day by Lynn Moore Rhodes
Shopping for Rugs on a Snowy Evening by Howard Zaharoff
Talking to Vincent by Ray Chatelin
The Bride and Her Toilette by Jenelle Boucher
The Jersey Slide by Don Carter
The Straight Poop by Steve Reynolds
Transformation by Stephen Schwandt

Humor Story Contest (Fall/Winter issue)

Humor Story Contest
(Fall/Winter issue)