PN announces Neutrino Short-Short Prize winners!

Passages North is delighted to announce the results of our biannual Neutrino Short-Short Prize, judged this year by Krys Malcolm Belc. (We have included his praise for the winning stories below).

WINNER
Leave Me by by Rebecca Swanberg
The speaker here asserts so many selves in such a compressed form. The confident self-ordering a lost partner to take their shit and go. The tender self remembering the feeling of the partner's body, the intimacies of being zipped in a tent together. This short short is full of the tactile and the beautiful and the defiant and I could not stop reading it.

HONORABLE MENTIONS
You Are Zero by Sherell Barbee
This piece has a delightful rhythm to it that makes the reader anticipate and fall in love with the mother's voice. Somehow the writer both speeds up and slows down time in a way that felt so authentic to childhood. A wonderful ambitious short short. 

The Game by Robyn Carter
I loved the layers in this short short. After I'd read it, I kept thinking about the images of the courthouse, about Frank Lloyd Wright, about George Lucas, about how the author had managed to pack so much so neatly into a compelling little piece. 

FINALISTS
Lady Dorothy Townshend Is Descending the Stairs by Jennifer Blackman
Other Childhood Rebellions by Jayne S. Wilson
Soap Opera by Alysandra Dutton
The Birth of Exurbia by Marc Sheehan
Mean to Me by Amina Gautier
Tears on Tap by Amina Gautier
The Tissue by Quinn Gancedo

The winning story and honorable mentions will be published in the upcoming issue. Thanks to everyone who entered!