Thanks to everyone who submitted to our 2018 Emerging Writer's Prize!
2018 WINNER: MARIA KOCHIS "SEALS ARE MY FAVORITE ANIMAL"
Read Maria Kochis' award-winning entry, "Seals Are My Favorite Animal," in Issue Six of The Arkansas International this spring.
FINALISTS:
Mi-Kyung Shin "The Blue Butterflies"
Brett Hullinger "Sun, Rise"
Sophia Veltfort "Ex-Lover"
Lizzie Roberts "Salt"
2018 JUDGE: ADAM JOHNSON
Adam Johnson received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master's Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection, Fortune Smiles. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Stanford.