Stories That Need to Be Told: 

The Contest
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Deadline: August 9, 2025

(Book Lovers' Day)

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2025 Grand Prize Winner

​Tummy by Matt Landig

Merit Prizes

LOVE: Sylvester: A Love Story by R.C. Goodwin

DEPTH: Volume Control by Aubrey Rebecca

PASSION: ​A Marvellous Thread of History by Warren Blake

HUMOR: Sincerely, Sarah by Nikita Costiuc

BONUS: Nocturne by Olivia Bacon

Honorable Mentions/Contributors

List in progress...

​​A Revision by Korkut Onaran
abraded by Ellee Thalheimer
Butterfly Effect by V. P. Loggins
CASE 16: Instructions for Extraction by Samantha E. Woodruff
​Funerary Fun by Richard Stokes
​Crash Course by Kirk A. Astroth
Mango Tree by Nuriya Mirakbar​
Marines Don’t Cry by Larry Chrysler
My New Non-Human Body by Joanne Gram
Not This Time by Ron Yates
Rash Writes This Poem During the Broken Night 
by Laura E. Garrard
Recalcitrant Spirit by Kimberly Clair

Search for the Survived by Amy Cook
The Multiverse by Meli Simmering
The Orcs of the Earth by Joseph J. Ridgway
The Tamarisk Tree by Anil Classen
Under a Purple Sky by Morgan Smith
Whole: A Meditation in Prose by Betsy McDaniel Boyer
Writing My Way Out by Brad G. Philbrick
You Remind Me by Ross Berger

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2025 Semifinalists

This is our first round of yeses. The winners and contributors will be further selected from this list.

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A Bullet from Boston by Scott Winkler
​A Day Sitting in One Place by Kent Nelson
A Long Run in the Moonlight by Warren Blake
​A Marvellous Thread of History by Warren Blake
​A Modern Ghost Story by Ya-Ting Yu
​A Pearl Is Just an Accident by Julie Esther Fisher
​A Remnant of the People by Robert Temple
​A Revision by Korkut Onaran
​A Woman Becoming by Hana Xen
​Above the Goat Farm, Half Moon Bay, California by Ira Batra Garde
Abracadabra by Ellen Schecter
​abraded by Ellee Thalheimer
​At Once by Ira Batra Garde
​Attempt to Be Greater by Jamie Andress
​August Morning by Ira Batra Garde​
Banana Bread by Weilheim Agusto
​ Baskets by Laura E. Garrard
​Beatles or Stones? by Josh Levy
​Birdseye by Julia M. Williams
​Both the Author and the Protagonist by Surya Maroju
​Butterfly Effect by V. P. Loggins
​Camp Dad by M.E. Mishcon
CASE 16: Instructions for Extraction by Samantha E. Woodruff
Caught in the Eddy by Ira Batra Garde
​Caves of Memory by Leslie Kaup
​Change the World by Susan Baukhages
Choke by Nancy Nolan
​​Choose Your Own Childhood by Bethany Bruno
​Chrysalis, Not Closet by Richard Jespers
Colorado Beckons by Larry Hartley
​​Coyote Hole by Michael Cannistraci
​Crash Course by Kirk A. Astroth
​Emergence by Sam Rafferty
​Everett Road by Linda Vozar Sweet
Exhume by Nina Hanee Jang
​Feel Something by Jeanne-Marie Fleming
​Fences by Wes Lee
​Frames by Ira Batra Garde
​Funerary Fun by Richard Stokes
​Going Infinite by Nathaniel Phillips
​Guns and Weebles by Abbey Landry
​If Only by David Stern
​It Is Already Yours by Christie Cantin Davis
​Jack’s First Trick by Jonathan David Santos
​Jerusalem of Gold by Rosie Cohan
​Karma Trauma by Andrea Gielen
​La vita fantastica by Sabrina P. Ramet
​Lawn Care in This America by Diana Tokaji
Like Air by Lindsey Royal Wayland
​​Long Overdue by Matt Landig
​Lost and Light by Marissa Bañez
​Mama, and the Number One Jig-a-Jig Scandal by Warren Blake         
​Mango Tree by Nuriya Mirakbar
​Marines Don’t Cry by Larry Chrysler
​Mattress by Mario René Padilla
​My New Non-Human Body by Joanne Gram
​No Dancing to the Music in the Vance by Lisa Gae Jones
​Nocturne by Olivia Bacon
​Northbound 395 by Victoria Dunn
​Not This Time by Ron Yates
​On Scottish Highlands by Richard Stokes
​Our Meggy by Richard Jespers
​Padded Room, Wraith, or Sad Country Song? by Dona Hare Price
​Playing the Odds by KM Kramer
​Potus, Then and Now by R.C. Goodwin
​Rash Writes This Poem During the Broken Night by Laura E. Garrard
​Recalcitrant Spirit by Kimberly Clair
​Rubber Ducky by Bob Rich
​Rubble by Kyle Mercer
​Sailing Like Mary Magdalene by Barry Fields
Search for the Survived by Amy Cook
Self-Portrait, Unframed by Ira Batra Garde
​​​Shades of Lavender by Ken Wetherington
Shame by Shauna Hicks
​​Sincerely, Sarah by Nikita Costiuc
​surrender means disassociation by Tara Zafft
​Sylvester: A Love Story by R.C. Goodwin
​The Boarder at Our House by Brenda Shoshanna
The Caregiver by Karen Holmberg
​​The Garden Shed by Meagan Baker
​The Kiss Specialist by Ray Buckley
​The Long Ride to Mourning by William Lewis Winston
​The Man Who Played Rachmaninoff by Mario René Padilla
​The Miracle Earth of Chimayó by Barry Fields
The Multiverse by Meli Simmering
​​The New Year in Tucson by HR Harper
​The Orcs of the Earth by Joseph J. Ridgway
​The Perfect Ecstasy of Simplicity by morgan howell
The Portal by Joey Porcelli​
The Rocky Road to Beauty After Eighty by Lois J. Evenson
​The Samovar, the Watch and the Silver Candlesticks by Ken Cohen
​The Tamarisk Tree by Anil Classen
Three Strands: Love, Food and Loss by Judith Sharlin
​Tina. Gino. by Helena Blanco
​Town by the Sea by Bg Robbins
​Tummy by Matt Landig
​Tuxedos by Paul Lieber
Under a Purple Sky by Morgan Smith
Uprooted by Haki Kiiru 
Volume Control by Aubrey Rebecca
​​​​We Breathed What Others Could Not by Hayden Park
​When I Thought She’d Left Me by Richard Stokes
​(When my brother was dying I wrote him a letter every
day) by Josephine Price
when you’ve used up the bandages and the marriage
is broken by Slade Graves
​​White Sneakers by Leah Channas
Whole: A Meditation in Prose by Betsy McDaniel Boyer
Within the Floods by Jenna A. Smith
Without You by Robert Pope
​​​​words by Ira Batra Garde
​Writing My Way Out by Brad G. Philbrick
​You Remind Me by Ross Berger

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​CONTEST RULES & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Category
After ten years of publishing really great stories, and in light of the new age that appears to be dawning around these parts, we thought it was time for a new prompt: What if the only way to save yourself from this reality is to write yourself a new one? The story you choose to tell is everything.  

There is still only one category: the Story. That means fiction, nonfiction, or poetry—as long as it tells a story, it fits.

​Prizes
Grand Prize: $1,000 and a 2-year ($100) gift certificate to Duotrope.
Five additional prizes of $200 will be given for stories that excel in the merits of Humor, Passion, Depth, and (any form of) Love. An additional $200 prize will be awarded in a wild card category, to be determined by the entries. We'll call this one the Bonus category.

Additionally, winners and Honorable Mentions will be published in and receive a free copy of the annual Stories That Need to Be Told anthology.

Word Limits
Prose: 10,000 words
​Poetry: 5 pages per poem (note:one poem per entry fee)

Entry Fee
$20 per entry. That includes $20 per poem (because every entry has the potential to win the same cash prizes). There is no limit on the number of times you may enter. If you withdraw your entry as noted below, the entry fee is nonrefundable.

Deadline
August 9, 2025 (by midnight, Pacific time or, really, as long as the Submission Fairy puts it under our pillow, er, in our inbox, by morning). If you are mailing your payment, entries must be emailed by the deadline and payment should be postmarked by the next day.

Submissions are accepted all year for the next deadline. Note, however, that all entries are read as a group after the deadline, so only submit early if you are okay with waiting until the deadline to hear back.

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Judging Process & Announcing the Winners
Judging takes place in two rounds. The entries are all read once and given a yes or a no. Because we don't have space limits on this round, our first round of yeses (a.k.a. the semifinalists) can be fairly long. (On average, this usually works out to be approximately the top 30%-33% of entries, and approximately the top 10% are selected for publication.) We will notify entrants when the semifinalists have been posted on the website. From the semifinalists, our cash prize winners are selected, as well as the contributors (a.k.a. Honorable Mentions). All contributors are contacted directly to obtain permission before pieces are published. Once the winner and contributors have been confirmed, they will be posted on the website, approximately two weeks before the release date. 

The Anthology
The estimated release date of the Stories That Need to Be Told anthology is October 15, 2025. 

Reprints and Simultaneous Submissions
​​Entries for these contests must be previously unpublished material, including online, and you must own the copyright. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but if your work is accepted elsewhere it is up to you to notify us. In the event you withdraw your submission, the entry fee is nonrefundable. 

Eligibility
Friends, family, and past or current clients of TulipTree's founder are not eligible to enter TulipTree contests.

Legal Stuff
By entering the contest you are stating and agreeing that (1) the work is your own original work, (2) no one else owns the rights to publish said work, and (3) if you are one of the winners of a cash prize, you grant TulipTree Publishing, LLC (TulipTree) the right to publish said work, unless you withdraw your work prior to TulipTree's announcement of winners.  

TulipTree does not retain rights to your work after we publish it.

How to Format Your Entry - Put Your Contact Info on Your Entry!

• Entries should be in .doc or .docx format (Mac Pages is okay, too, and PDFs are acceptable for poetry only). The title of the document should be the title of your story.
  

• Prose entries should be in standard industry format: 12 pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins.
  

• Poetry format should be 12 pt TNR, but line spacing and margins are open style.
  

• Please include your name, mailing address, email address, and title on the first pageof your story (no separate cover sheet needed). 
  

Putting Your Contact Info on Your Entry and Using a Pen Name

• Please put your contact info on your entry. As these are logged manually, help ensure you get credit for your work by including your contact info on your entry. 
• If you have a pen name, please indicate it on your entry, either with your contact info or as a by-line ("[Title of Story] by [Pen Name]").
  
• The name on your entry will be what gets posted online if you are a semifinalist, so a by-line is also helpful if you want your name presented in a different way (middle name/no middle name, initials, pen name, etc.).
• Thank you for putting your contact info on your entry.

How to Enter - Put Your Contact Info on Your Entry!

1. Purchase your entry fee with a credit card below or mail your payment to TulipTree Publishing, PO Box 133, Seymour, MO 65746. Please note in your submission email that you are paying by mail. Note that even if you mail in your payment, you should still email your submission. 
   

2. Email your entry as an attachment to TulipTreePub@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation email when your entry has been received and logged into our system.* ​

* Two things: (1) Note that these are entered by hand so if you don't get an email confirmation instantly, don't freak out—we're (probably) getting to it. (2) If it's been more than a day or two and you still haven't gotten a confirmation, maybe start freaking out a little but because we either didn't get your entry, our emails are going to your spam folder, or our emails are blocked by your email provider. As we do our crucial communicating through email (i.e., letting you know if you won and confirming your work is still available), you'll want to make sure we're getting through. 

​Please note that entries must be emailed as attachments (see step 2 above). There will not be an upload page that appears after payment.

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​PAST WINNERS

2024

GRAND PRIZE: I love you. I promise by Mike Rosen

MERIT PRIZES
PASSION: Floaters by Ross Berger
HUMOR: The Blink of an Eye by Terry Hartley
LOVE: Hugging Alder by Laura E. Garrard
DEPTH: Flinching by Cass Peterson
BONUS: Patrick Gets Schooled by Patrick Watts

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
​A Day for Dying by Morgan Smith
A Marriage by Donald Wildman
A Slow Spiral by Jordyn Lillibridge
Because by Pat McCutcheon
Borders by Ellen Francese
Don’t Tell Your Mom by Mark Cole
For Jim by Karen Quickley
​For Nex Benedict by Ren Wilding
For You by Victor Oliva
Go On Ahead by Suzanna C. de Baca
​Good Form by Ben Carter Olcott
​In the Cocoon by Aruna Gurumurthy
​Inspiration Point by Michael Bronson
​July Fourth by Sallie Bingham
​Melancholy Is the Nurse of Frenzy by R.C. Goodwin
Remembering the Farm by Bill Smoot
Retraction by Taylor Akiko Shoda
​The Midnight Special by Hayden Park
This Morning by Joseph J. Ridgway
Towel Collector by Mario René Padilla

2023

GRAND PRIZE: ​​Gerald: A Memoir by Arlo Z Graves

MERIT PRIZES
LOVE: Music in Absentia by Diane Rudov
              and Grass Jelly by Isabel Li
HUMOR: ​The Rise of MC Menorah by Daniel Sennis
DEPTH: ​Mayflies by Benjamin Hawley
PASSION: ​A Man’s Yard by Robert Michael Oliver
BONUS: ​Phantom Pain by Victoria Crane

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
A Story My Mother Will Never Hear by Valentina Gnup
Always Thought My Life as a Documentary/What Would
They Say by Demetrius Buckley
Anatomy of a Glacier by Cecilia Maddison
​Capturing Mengele by Barry R. Ziman
Childhood by Shawn Bell​
Confessions of a Barfly by Heather C. Jarvis
Contact High by ​Thomas Darlington​
Family Portrait by Maddie Lock
Hoary Homage by Mandi “Monster” Hidalgo
​​Intercession by John Arthur Neal
​January Wedding by Amy Brunson
Library War by Christopher Santiago
​Longs Pass by Doug Emory
love letter to a weed by Jack Giaour
Maps by Faith Shearin
McPherson Kids by Logan Rose
Passover by Gina Soo Golden
Puzzle Man by Clare Olivares
Recompose by Lee Woodman
Ripe Tomatoes by Mario René Padilla
The Commies by Doug Bost
The Most Valuable Player by Jeremy Stelzner
What I Did Right by Miriam Murray

2022
GRAND PRIZE: Liv and Let Liv by Julie Esther Fisher

MERIT PRIZES
PASSION:  Midnight by Marissa Tian
​DEPTH:  Dear Dad by Darian Geddis
HUMOR:  Seeing Things by Noah Cohen-Greenberg
LOVE:  Emotional Support Pig: A Love Story by Matt Landig
BONUS: ​​ Do You Remember, Sarah? by Matt Herzfeld 

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
A Memory by Nicole Van Zandt
A Stone at Bexar by ​James Harmon Clinton
Between Living and Dreaming by Morgan Smith
Burnt Sienna: A Love Story by Hazel Hitchins
Firefight by Kelly Skaggs
​​Kleiner in the Woods by Ross Berger
Kochma by Diane Allerdyce
On Wings of Song by Mel Konner
(op)pressed by Yennie Jun
Pam Is Freezing by Ryan Murphy
Pennsylvania by Stevie doCarmo
Pretty Fingers by Laurel DiGangi​
Surface-to-Surface, Surface-to-Air by Bill Glose
The End of Something by J.C. Scott​
​The Flying Bicycle Guy by Clynne Morgan Tilton
The Man Side of the Bed by Teresa Burns Gunther​
The Old Man by the Side of the Road by J. Stephen Rush
​​The Sedan of Existence by Andrew Ellis
There’s No Place Like Home by Yolanda G. Wysocki
To (President) IKE by Mary Ann Crowe
Walk It Off by Don Carter

2021

GRAND PRIZE: Don’t You Sweetheart Me by Heather Debling

MERIT PRIZES
HUMOR:  ​Smooth as Silk by Don Carter
LOVE: The Daughter by Monic Ductan
PASSION: The Door by Christianna Soumakis
DEPTH: ​The Other Woman by Tristan Marajh
BONUS: Evie A.I. by Ross Berger

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS​
An Affable Man by Dustin Grinnell
A Requiem in Orange by Nina Marceny
Conka by John Briscoe
Fat-Pickers by Richard Levine
​Fishing by Mary Hutchings Reed
Functionally Fine by Jimi Johnson
Gary the Lion by H.N. Wood
​Intangible Effects by Lynne Ruelaine Stokes
​my body is by Alysa Levi-D’Ancona
My Father’s Sex Doll by Hillary Flynn
My Year as a Chemical Eunuch by Hal Ackerman
Never Forget by Ruth Mota
Obit of a Stranger by Jill Cunningham
​​On My Way to Coffee at 7:00 AM During
Covid-19 by Elaine Zimmerman
​Orange Slices by Eileen Zhang
Origins by Janet Gotkin​
Recycled by K. Di Prima​
Red Light/Black Zone by Renée Ozburn​
Requiem for Five Trees by A.M. Riddle​
September 10. The Danish by Bernard Horn
​Sleep by Liz Kelner Pozen
The Boy and the Cat by Jane Yi
​The New Northwestern Personality and Aptitude
Test by Shawn Soward Bell​
The Prisoner by Lynette Benton
The Third Rule of Fight Club by Brook van der Linde
Time for Love by Joseph J. Ridgway
​Tornado by Carrie Vestal Gilman
​Wilma Tells About Louie by Marjorie Saiser

2020
GRAND PRIZE: Red Bluff by Michael Pearce

MERIT PRIZES
LOVE:  Bruised by Ron L. Dowell
HUMOR:  My Life of Crime by Jim Gish
DEPTH:  Muzzles by Doug Marrin
PASSION:  Scales by Mario René Padilla
BONUS: ​ Wilful Damages by Alan Whelan

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
​​A Midsummer 2020 Night’s Dream by Laura Holman
Blue Boy by Theo Johnston
​​​Bolsonaro Eats Too Much Cheese by Andrew W. Jones
​Fearful Child by Kimberly A. Werner
Football with Leatherman by Ross Berger
Green in My Face by Oak Morse
Learning to Count by Elizabeth Argelia Leonard
Like the Sun in Winter by Lesley Bannatyne
Lost and Found by Arthur M. Doweyko
On Sawyer Mountain by Erica G. Craig
Required Debauchery by Thomas Darlington
Short Synopsis of a Life by Marina Datthyn
Stuck on a Stranded Dog by Howard Isaac Williams
Synchronicity by Geoffrey K. Graves
Tarzan in Decline by Richard D. Key
​Test Flight by Emily Nichol
The Bells of St. James by Holly C. Tabor
​​The Brown Bag by Karen Gregory
​The Dog Days of College by ​Jacob Wratten
The Dog in the Desert by Stephanie Anderson
​The Glass Blower by R.C. Goodwin
​​The Whole Artichoke, Stem and All by Sharon E. Svendsen
​The Whole Story of the Girl Who Talked to Fish by Meli Broderick Eaton
Yusuf’s Wedding Celebration by Rosie Cohan

2019​
GRAND PRIZE:  Messenger of God by Morgan Smith

MERIT PRIZES
HUMOR:  Now I Can Do Anything I Have to Do by William Snyder Jr.
LOVE:  Penelope for His Thoughts by Lorraine Devon Wilke
DEPTH:  Neanderthals by Michael Keane
PASSION:  Ask and Ye Shall Receive by Michele E. Reisinger
BONUS:  Whistle Stop ​by KT Sparks

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
​A Mix Tape Odyssey by Doug Bost
About Apples by Margarite Landry
Angels in the Dark by Jane Shoenfeld
Arranged Love by Joseph Ridgway
Assisted Living by Benjamin Keyworth
Curtainwall by Brenna Williams
Fire by Faith Shearin
Frog Hunt by Mario René Padilla
My Body Is 2 Bodies by Jay Eddy
My Mother’s Lesson by Karen Gregory
Old Time Religion by Mark Chesnut
Seven by Lisa M. Novak
Shock Treatment by Malcolm R. Campbell
Sundowning by Audrey DiPlacido
The Detective by Olivia Nalder
The Good Samaritan by Doug Hagley
The Spider God by Cailyn Brown
Tourists by Lyle Stiles
Underdogs by Robert J. Begiebing
Vestiges by Morell E.  Mullins

2018

GRAND PRIZE:  Just So by Lish Troha

MERIT PRIZES 
PASSION:  Pablo Neruda and the Caffeinated Madness of Love by Chris Morgan
​DEPTH:  Jimmy's Fish Market by Pearly D. Keller
​HUMOR:   Eunice Buys a Doll by Jim Gish
LOVE:  A Good and Simple Meal by M. B. McLatchey
BONUS:  A Thousand Kisses Deep by Deborah L. Levine

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
A Vague Recollection by Erica Stisser
​A Woman of a Certain Hue by Shanteé Felix
At the Falling-Off Point by Roxy Runyan
Bead by Bead by EA Luetkemeyer
Chasing Dragons by Lynette Benton
​Confrontation and Cojones by Mario René  Padilla
Country Poor by Katrina Hawley
​Coven by Samantha Barron
Fetching the Payroll by P. Jo Anne Burgh
Fruit Punch by Jake Teeny
Get Off Track by Timothy Scahill
Hello and Goodbye by Robert Pope
Hope Walker by Jamer
Interview with Kalief Browder by Alex Greenberg
​Life on the Road without Any Brakes by Don Carter
Nonspeaking by Isabelle Jay
One-Eyed in Juarez by Morgan Smith
Pre-Glow of the Neo-Apocalypse by Genevra Levinson
Rubbing the Chips by Pat Anthony
​Soviet Skatepark by Jonan Pilet
Stretch Marks by Simone Martel
Swim by Eric Roe
The Things My Afro Knows by AE Wynter
The Toll by Simone Kern
Toes Touching Sand by Courtney Lee Hall
Turn Right at the Tree House by Avy Harris
Vignette between Now and Morning by Kai Mawougbe
​Where to Be by C. Witzling

2017 
GRAND PRIZE:  Mary's Story by Georgia Baddley

MERIT PRIZES
PASSION:  Le Château Possoniere by Mario René Padilla
​DEPTH:  No Superhero by Lisa Poff
​HUMOR:  Beats by Jon Shorr
LOVE:  Annotated Love Letter by Alexander Joseph
​BONUS:  Run Amok by Laura Eddy

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
​A Bus Poem, Cameron Moore
A Monster’s Eulogy, Rekha Rangan
An Inconvenient Death, Gabriella Buckner
Daddy's Tears, Jacob Paul Patchen
Dangerous Fish Days, Robert Hambling Davis
Dear Demeter, Audrey Larkin
Disrupting History, Mariya Taher
Eight Steps Down, Steven Fromm
Freddy, Julie Dearborn
Getting Our Flickers, Nick Swartz
Heroes, Calvin Hennick
I Told You Not to Move, Allison Flom
Jay, Will Schick
Lovers Last Journey, Bob Blake
Naturally, Mika Hunter
Pobrecito, Nina Joy Silver
Strato-Christmas '66, Jimmy Searles
The Corner of My Heart, Victoria Sylvander 

2016
GRAND PRIZE:  Mending by Enid Harlow

MERIT PRIZES
HUMOR:  Alumni by Michael Fischer
PASSION:  Mr. Thoughtful by Christopher Spencer
​LOVE:  A Very Special Occasion by Ana Maria Owusu
DEPTH:  Ictal Life (A Song for Epilepsy) by Brandon Ellis

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS
A Baseball Lesson by Mark J. Rogovin
A Beer in Bastille by Kenneth John Holt
A Place You Love by Lones Seiber
Alumni by Michael Fischer
An Adulterous Meeting by Jeremy King
Brave by Stephanie L. Harper
Bunny Swung the Axe at Charlie by Harry Beach
Chucky’s in Tucson by Brant Vickers
Closing the Door by Marianna Crane
Confession by Patricia Hawley
Dreams and Other Sleights of Hand by Michelle Perez
How to Live the Rest of Your Life in 100 Days by Elias Renaud
It Seems Like It Should by Kerime B. Toksu
Keeper of the Gate by Mario René Padilla
My Father Wants I Should Know by Jean Ende
Solitary Grace by Beka Tuitasi 
The Cure by Cynthia Walker
The Randall Knife by Morgan Smith
Ties That Bind by Michael Twist
Tumors Humors by Beverley Catlett
When I Find You Close by Amy S. Lerman

 2015
1st place: Africa Weeping by Jerry Eckert, posthumous
2nd place: Love Underground by Andrew Jack Foster 
3rd place: These Are the Things by Chris Connolly 

HONORABLE MENTIONS/CONTRIBUTORS

Labor Day by  Darla Klein 
Meant to Be by Monica Vickers 
This Is for Keeps by Molly Steen 
So Many Rivers by Sandra McGarry 
Peas and Queues by Richard Key ​
My Dad, Sandy, and the Tri-Pacer by ​​William J. McIlwain 
​Kinky and Gruen by Diane Simkin 

You can find the 2015 stories in the Winter issue of TulipTree Review.​

 Banana Bread” by Weilheim Agusto 

 V. P. Loggins 

 ‘Mango Tree’ by Nuriya Mirakbar 

Stories change us.

Scroll down to see all of our past winners.

This contest is sponsored by Duotrope.