2013 Gulf Coast Prizes

The newest issue of Gulf Coast features the top winners for the 2013 contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition to publication, they received $1,500. Honorable mentions received $250. Here is the complete list of winners:

2013 GULF COAST PRIZE IN FICTION
Judged by Maggie Shipstead

WINNER:
Alexander Lumans, “Power and Light”

HONORABLE MENTION:
Syed Ali Haider, “I’ll Take It Neat”
Ravsten Cottle, “The Young Mormon’s Guide to Not Having Sex in the 1980s”

2013 GULF COAST PRIZE IN NONFICTION
Judged by Darin Strauss

WINNER:
JR Fenn, “Where We Went and What We Did There”

HONORABLE MENTION:
Daisy Pitkin, “Scattering Theory”
Alessandra Nolan, “Guilt Letters”

2013 GULF COAST PRIZE IN POETRY
Judged by Stanley Plumly

WINNER:
M.K. Foster, “Fugue for the Sky Burial of Your Father”

HONORABLE MENTION:
Scott Challener, “Maine”
Melissa Barrett, “If I Were the Moon, I Know Where I Would Fall Down”