Writers of the Future 1st Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 42

And the winners are:

First Place – Zach Poulter from Utah
Second Place – S.J. Stevenson from Great Britain
Third Place – Kathleen Powell from Missouri

Finalists:

Danny Hankner from Iowa
Alea Henle from Ohio
Doris Rose Lanzkron-Tamarazo from Michigan
Matthew LaWall-Shane from Wisconsin
Vani Vaghela from California

Semi-Finalists:

Sadie Bunting from New York
Theo Carr from Great Britain
Brandon Case from Nevada
Gregory R. Hyde from Colorado
Dianne Lee from New York
Philip Peerce from Kentucky
Matt Athanasiou from Illinois
Cheyenne Mann from Rhode Island
Kain Massin from Australia
Gabriel Moseley from Washington

Silver Honorable Mentions:

Frasier Artmitage from Great Britain
Austin Baker from Arizona
Erica Balfour from Colorado
Andrew Barber from Virginia
Patrick Barry from Pennsylvania
Gary Battershell from Arkansas
Hannah Baumgardt from Minnesota
Christopher Baxter from Utah
Lou J Berger from Colorado
GL Bertram from Utah
Caitlin Carpenter from Canada
Jenny Perry Carr from Texas
Madeleine Chae from North Carolina
Rob Cornell from Michigan
Jason P. Crawford from California
Fabien Delorme from France
Michelle J. Diaz from Oregon
Nathan B. Dodge from Texas
Sam Everett from Texas
Grant Gaugush from Florida
Jeremy Giles from North Carolina
Jaime Gill from Great Britain
Tiina Giocada from Canada
Bill Hackenberger from California
Nora Hille from Germany
Jared A. Jackson from Florida
Angela Kayd from Massachusetts
Kevin Kepko from Florida
Eric Lard from California
J. Lennon from Pennsylvania
Kate Leon from Tennessee
Jennifer Lesh Fleck from Washington
Irene Liang from Texas
Karen Aria Lin from Washington
Darren Lipman from Wisconsin
Matthew C. Lucas from Florida
Anneli Marks from Denmark
Collin Masteller from California
Tara McKee from Washington
Rosa Meronek from Arizona
Devin Miller from North Carolina
Jared Nelson from Florida
Scott Newman from Great Britain
Cara O’Sullivan from Utah
B. A. Paul from Indiana
James H. Pickering from Pennsylvania
Brenda Posey from Alabama
Jeffrey Alan Rector from California
Charles Roberts from Ohio
Bud Robertson from Nevada
Daniel Rodrigues-Martin from Minnesota
A. R. Rowland from Kansas
Scott M. Sands from Australia
Duncan Shepard from Connecticut
Michael Simon from Canada
I.J. Sparks from Colorado
Melody Sundholm from Oregon
Amy Wethington from South Carolina
Walter Wiese from Montana
A. Wilkins from New Zealand
Mary Jerome Wolf from Illinois
Quinn Young from Iowa
Katie Young Seidemann from Oregon

Honorable Mentions:

Arian A.D. from Canada
A. M. Aikman from Florida
Rana Aldaw from Canada
S. D. Alisea from California
Van Allison from Texas
Alejandro Alvarez from Great Britain
Django Mathijsen & Ana Haen from Netherlands
Steve Anderson from Iowa
Kayla Armstrong from Montana
Alper Ates from Turkey
Stirling Avis from Oklahoma
Ali Barkat from Oklahoma
Alexandra Barnard from Romania
Eloy Bates from North Carolina
Scott Batson from South Carolina
Jason Battle from Illinois
SummerDale Beckstrand from Utah
Rick Bennett from Utah
Ryan Benson from Georgia
Ian Bentwood from Great Britain
Jeff Binkley from Alabama
Clayton Blackwelder from North Carolina
Samuel R. Blankenship from Arizona
Daniel Blatt from California
Bret Booher from Indiana
Blake Booth from Texas
Corey Branch from Texas
Maiya Belle Brock from New Mexico
Evelyn K. Brunswick from France
S.D. Bullard from Tennessee
TF Burk from Pennyslvania
Lawrence Caldwell from Japan
Vivienne Camille from Mexico
Nathan Campbell from Canada
Aaron Canton from Utah
A. Casper L. from Canada
Sarah Celiann from Illinois
Amin Chehelnabi from Australia
C E Chester from Montana
Kira Christensen from Utah
Marco Cian from Wisconsin
D. M. Cieran from Colorado
Steven Corbin from Canada
Zaslow Crane from Washington
S. Donovan Croft from South Carolina
Adrian Croft from California
Jeffrey C. Cross from Canada
Rachael Cupp from Arizona
Matteo D’Aguiar from Brazil
Kate Dane from Minnesota
Rick Danforth from Great Britain
Edward Daschle from Maryland
Harper Dent from Australia
Victoria L Dixon from Kansas
O. L. Drake from North Carolina
Lilly Dreis from South Dakota
Joshua Dyer from West Virginia
Tim Emery from Great Britain
Mark English from New Zealand
Joshua Essoe from Maine
Sonya Ezdina from Russia
P. D. Fenton from Kansas
Sam Fletcher from Hawaii
Fallon Foster-Phoenix from Virginia
James Fritz from Illinois
Joshua C. Gaines from Oregon
Jack Gallegos from New Mexico
J. J. Galluzzo from Montana
Katherine Garrison from Great Britain
Russell Giles from Utah
Nate Givens from Virginia
Peter Glazebrook from Great Britain
J.C.G. Goelz from Louisiana
Ian Gonzales from Washington
Leigh Gorelik from Arizona
Stephen Michael Gousie from Massachusetts
Emma Grace from Illinois
George McClellan Grant from Connecticut
Robin Rose Graves from California
Peter Michael Gray from Great Britain
Theodora Gray from Utah
Chris Griffiths from New Zealand
Alex Hartford from Great Britain
T.A. Hicks from Kentucky
S.R. Jensen from Idaho
Carol Lee Craig & Jodi Lynn Threat from Oregon
Stephen Johnson from Illinois
R.A. Johnson from Pennyslvania
Jamiel Jones from Georgia
Eli Jones from Oregon
Douglas Jones from North Carolina
C.T. Jones from Australia
Chris Lee Jones from Great Britain
Toshiya Kamei from Missouri
Taria Karillion from Great Britain
Cat Karness from Montana
Janessa Keeling from Kentucky
Gavin Keon from Australia
John Kessler from Colorado
Ryan Kettle from Canada
Glenn Kimata from Colorado
Olivia Kolosna from Georgia
Spyridon Konstantopoulos from Greece
Renatka Kozlowska from Pennyslvania
E. G. V. Krombein from Idaho
Michael Kuester from Ohio
Michael La Ronn from Iowa
Daniel J. Lane from New Hampshire
Erin Langlinais from Louisiana
V. R. Lassmann from Poland
Pete Lead from Australia
Colt Leasure from California
Matthew Lebowitz from Massachusetts
R.J.K. Lee from Japan
Eva Leppard from Australia
Elizabeth Levin from Illinois
Philippa Ball Lewis from Great Britain
Leyelle from Dominican Republic
Antanya Lindsay from New York
Ian Ludington from Illinois
Ali A. Lunae from California
Z.A. Mackic from California
C.L. Mannarino from Massachusetts
Charley Marsh from Minnesota
Jeff Mason from Wisconsin
Mark McGrath from Maryland
Parker McIntosh from Oregon
Joshua Harley McKnight from California
Andrew Mcormick from California
Mark McWaters from Florida
Brittain Meadows from Georgia
Assaph Mehr from Tasmania
Tinsley Merriman from Missouri
Bogdan Mihai from Romania
Nate M. Miller from Idaho
Tristan and Blaise Miranda from California
A.M. Mischek from Wisconsin
George Mizel from Portugal
Mohit from India
Matt Mordecai from Great Britain
Andew Moses from New Hampshire
Kevin S. Moul from Arizona
Melanie Mulrooney from Canada
Ross Myers from Missouri
J. Autumn Needles from Washington
CL Nel from Tennessee
Addison Nevill from Texas
David Norling from Washington
Lucas T. Novick from Great Britain
Sarina Nushrat from New Jersey
Mandy Oaks from Tennessee
Mera Oberesk from Arizona
Maryann Ogbonnaya from Nigeria
Susan Oke from Great Britain
William A. Oliver from New Jersey
Al Onia from Canada
Isabel Osborne from Missouri
Ryan Owen from Massachusetts
Naveena Pandillapally from Canada
Geoff Parker from Michigan
Michael Pasotti from India
Aarti Patel from California
Jacob Perez from California
C.J. Persson from Sweden
Celeste A. Peters from Canada
Jason Pfister from New York
Fred Phillips from Louisiana
Juho Pohjalainen from Finland
M. Pontbriand from Alaska
Beth Powers from Indiana
Eliza Quentin from New Zealand
Maddy Rain from Florida
Susmita Ramani from California
S. Ramses from Hawaii
Esteban Raposo from California
Shawn J. Ratti from Pennyslvania
Adrian Rayner from Great Britain
K.M. Rebi from Japan
Robin Reed from California
Robbie Reilly from Japan
Raven Reynolds from Illinois
J.M. Roberts from Illinois
Treyson Robertson from Oklahoma
Mike Robinson from California
Kiley Robinson from Kentucky
Mike Romo from California
Michael Rosenstein from Oregon
Johanna Rothman from Massachusetts
Michel Sabbagh from Canada
Manisha Sahoo from India
Matthew J. Salerno from New Jersey
H. E. Salian from Washington
Annmarie SanSevero from Arkansas
Michael Schultz from Alabama
M. Gamble See from Idaho
Anne Shimeki from Japan
Craig S. Shoemake from Massachusetts
Hank Shore from North Carolina
Joseph Sidari from Massachusetts
Sandra Siegienski from Oregon
Avery Simmons Chen from Virginia
Sheri Singerling from Germany
Pierre-Alexandre Sitcart from Taiwan
Eric R. Skinner from Idaho
Jasiah Smalls from North Carolina
Gideon P. Smith from Massachusetts
Bevin Sommer from Minnesota
Lucy Stauffer from California
Jeanna Mason Stay from Utah
Michael Strickland from Colorado
Les Taylor from Florida
A. S. Taylor from Nevada
Amor Tellus from Colorado
Daphne Therrien-Paquin from Canada
Niz Thomas from New Jersey
Joel Thomas from California
Chloe Townsend from Texas
Annie Tupek from Oregon
John Turner from Massachusetts
Kenneth Urban from Massachusetts
Marius van Bruggen from Sweden
Amber Velez from Massachusetts
Jillian Wahlquist from California
Hunter Kay Wallace from Montana
N. A. Walters from Ohio
Russell Weisfield from Colorado
B. K. Wellman from Montana
Hetty White from Georgia
C. Bennett Whitney from Indiana
William R.D. Wood from Virginia
Ai Lee Woods from Utah
Error Writes from Sweden
Shelly Yang from Great Britain
Brad Zeiger from Oregon
Albert Zhang from Massachusetts