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Thanks to everyone who submitted to our 2018 Emerging Writer's Prize!

 
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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"

ZZ Packer, 2017 Final Judge

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.