The 2025 Contest theme was “ROOTS.”
First Place: Joyce Bevc, for her story Achromotrichia.
Originally from Johnstown, PA, Joyce Bevc headed to the big city to attend the University of Pittsburgh and has lived here ever since. Joyce’s short stories have been published in Strangest Fiction and Altered Reality anthologies, as well as in the Mensa Bulletin.
Second Place: J.L. Theoret. Blood and Stone.
Third Place: Alicia Maskley. The Flesh We Keep.
Youth Story: Amelia Streeter. A Forest’s Vicissitude.
Thank you to everyone that participated, our Judges; SJ Powell, Eric Leif Davin, and Barbara A. Barnett, and to our wonderful coordinator this year, M.C. Benner Dixon!
