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Stephanie ChanAnnouncing the 2007 STONY BROOK SHORT FICTION PRIZE WINNER
$1000 FIRST PRIZE TO
Stephanie Chan

OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
For Her Story “No Man's Land”
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2007 Honorable Mentions
  • Lindsay Harrison, Brown University
  • Alexanne Malia Madison, University of Washington
  • Anne Putnam, Washington University

Announcing the 2006 STONY BROOK SHORT FICTION PRIZE WINNER
$1000 FIRST PRIZE TO
Ah-Young SongAh-Young Song
OF BROWN UNIVERSITY
For Her Story “Daunt”
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2006 Honorable Mentions
  • Kimberly Gotches -- Marquette University -- "Sacrifice"
  • Elizabeth Fallon -- Southampton College -- "Karo & Me"

Announcing the 2005 STONY BROOK SHORT FICTION PRIZE WINNER
$1000 FIRST PRIZE TO
David Lowry Pressly
OF UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
For His Story “U”
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2005 Honorable Mentions
  • Evelyn Khoo -- Swarthmore College -- “A Ghost Story”
  • Brian Huskie -- University at Albany -- “Ten More Minutes”
  • Theresa Ray -- Murray State University -- "Dark Thirty"
  • Robert Young -- Western Washington University -- "Sex in Subic"
  • Theodore Wheeler -- University of Nebraska-Lincoln -- "The Scythian Defense"

A panel of judges from Stony Brook University’s English Department has declared David Lowry Pressly, a junior at the University of Georgia, the winner of the 2005 Short Fiction Prize for his story titled “U.”

Mr. Pressly’s story topped nearly one hundred entries from undergraduate writers across America and Canada. Mr. Pressly will travel to the Stony Brook campus this Fall to give a reading of his story and accept his $1000 prize. The Short Fiction Prize is in its fifteenth year and is funded by an anonymous donor.

Michael CapelThe 2004 Prize
Michael Capel - SUNY Oswego
“Divers” Read the story

2004 Honorable Mentions
  • Jane L. Carman – Western Illinois University – “The World’s Biggest Fish”
  • Diane Fu – University of Minnesota – “Metro Transit 16”
  • Erin Xia Gieschen – Georgia State University – “One Volume of One Author”
  • Janet Liao – Cornell University – “The Great Sog”
  • Keith Lin – University of Maryland, Baltimore County – “Eavesdropping”
  • Sarah Colleen Morgan – University of Houston – “Old Houses and Dirt Roads”
  • Xuequn Pan – Princeton University – “The Sex Lives of Filipino Maids”
  • Nate Sellyn – Princeton University – “A Kind of Dignity”
  • Phillip Waalkes – Hope College – “Passion Between the Living”
  • Kyla Wetherell – Lane Community College – “No Suffah”
  • Samy Yang – University of Wisconsin, Madison – “There Is No Snow in Laos”
The 2003 Prize
T. M. Douglas - California State Hayward
"The Shrine" Read the Story

2003 Honorable Mentions
  • 1ST HONORABLE MENTION -- Nancy Jooyoun Kim - UCLA -- “Orientation” Read the Story
  • Kate Benson -- Princeton University -- “The Long Drive Back from Seaside”
  • Kathryn Brackett -- Converse College -- “The Road of Hoping”
  • Heather Curry -- University of South Florida -- "Starvation"
  • Ashley Davidson -- University of Arizona -- “The Aspirin and the Ecstasy”
  • Mandy Hu -- Harvard University -- “Leonids”
  • Danielle Mullen -- New Mexico State University -- “A Rush of Silence”
  • Erin Pringle -- Indiana State University -- “The Magnolia Lyric”
  • Lia Romeo -- Princeton University -- “War Stories”
This is the second consecutive year in which Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Kate Benson and Erin Pringle have been recognized with Honorable Mentions, and we applaud their consistent high quality of writing.
The 2002 Prize
The winning story for 2002 has been withdrawn.
Announcing the 2002 Honorable Mentions
  • 1ST HONORABLE MENTION -- Veronica Lucero - New Mexico State University -- “In the Blood” Read the Story
  • Kate Benson -- Princeton University -- “Surface Tension”
  • Nathan Keonaona Chai -- Brigham Young University -- “Driven”
  • Sarah K. Hammond -- University of South Carolina -- “The Train Fell Off the Track”
  • Nancy Jooyoun Kim -- UCLA -- “Silence and Sound”
  • Erin Pringle -- Indiana State University -- “Sunday Night Blues”
  • Alison Stoltzfus -- University of Pennsylvania -- “There, But For the Grace”
  • Xiao Wu -- Harvard University -- “The Dissident”
This is the second consecutive year that Nathan Chai of Brigham Young University has been recognized with an Honorable Mention, and we applaud his consistent high quality of writing.

The 2001 Prize
Jennifer OhJennifer Oh - Duke University
"No Regrets"
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2001 Honorable Mentions
  • Nathan Chai -- Brigham Young University -- "War After the Flesh"
  • Erin Xia Gieschen -- Georgia State University -- "What Magically Appears"
  • Paige Grande -- San Jose State University -- "Winter in Nowhere Land"
  • Laurel Greenidge -- University of Washington -- "The Test"
  • Kerrie Kvashay-Boyle -- University of S. California -- "Like Smoke: Gone"
  • Annie Lee -- Princeton -- "Yellow Soil"
  • Amy O'Neal -- Bryn Mawr College -- "The Lord of the Diving Board"
  • Alex Ortolani -- Northwestern University -- "Accidents"
This is the second consecutive year that Alex Ortolani of Northwestern University has been recognized with an Honorable Mention, and we applaud his consistent high quality of writing.
The 2000 Prize
KATHERIN NOLTE - Wright State University
"If the Boyfriend Has Lasted a Year"

2000 Runners-up with Distinction
Jill Alphonso Lin Fen, Hawaii Pacific University - Fluid Spaces
Michael Fearnow, James Madison University - Ladies' Night at the Home of Human Cannonball
Katie Hays, Bucknell University - Half-Winged
Melissa A. Thompson, Concordia University - Nibble-Nibble, Gnaw-Gnaw

2000 Honorable Mentions
  • Nellie Hermann, Brown University - Bunny Love
  • Alex Ortolani, Northwestern University - The Penguin Men
  • Annie Rong-tzu Lin, Rice University - The Armrest
  • Jacqueline To, Concordia University - a stone, a sleeping armadillo, a silent turtle, a cactus plant, a hermit crab


The 1999 Prize
MALIA MULDER WOLLAN - University of California, Santa Cruz
Persimmon
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1999 Runners-up with Distinction
Megan Gilman, Princeton University - Eat Flounderly
H. Jessica Kim, Amherst College - Prono
Caitlin Shirts, Indiana University - Magicians without Wives

1999 Honorable Mentions
  • Jeremiah Ho, University of California, Los Angeles - Buying Time
  • Susie Moon, Cornell University - Birth of Jeff
  • Simon Patrick Rogers, Concordia University - The Zoo
  • Diane Saulon, State University of New York at Stony Brook - The Breakup
This is the second consecutive year that Susie Moon of Cornell University has been recognized with an Honorable Mention, and we applaud her consistent high quality of writing.
The 1998 Prize
BRETT WILLIAMS -- SUNY at Stony Brook
22
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1998 Honorable Mentions
  • Penda Aiken, Hunter College - Lightening
  • Amanda J. Besl, SUNY Oswego - Daisy Chains and Pigeon Bones
  • Joyce Cheng, Northwestern University - Lotus
  • Jhoanna Infante, Northwestern University - The Ascetic
  • Susie Moon, Cornell University - The Condensed History of Giuseppe and Bettina
  • Vu Hoang Tran, University of Tulsa - Ghost Story
  • Henrikki Priyanga Rajapaksa-Yapa Tuovinen, Ohio State University - Devouring Prometheus
  • Ho Chan Won, Tufts University - Fireflies in Daylight
This is the second consecutive year that both Amanda J. Besl and Vu Hoang Tran have been recognized with Honorable Mentions, and we applaud their consistent high quality of writing.
The 1997 Prize
MITCH CULLIN -- University of Houston
Sifting Through
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First Honorable Mention:
JESSICA JORDAN NUDEL -- Empire State College,
A Volcano is Like a Heart Bursting
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Honorable Mentions:
  • Amanda Besl, SUNY at Oswego - Homing Instincts
  • Tamika Edwards, Louisiana State University - The Girl, Clara
  • Abby Goldenfarb, Wellesley College - Lines
  • Kischa Kai Miller, Williams College - Swollen Bellies
  • Elissa Minor, Oregon State University - Ilima Flowers
  • Chris Santiago, Oberlin College - The Reader of Teeth
  • Vu Tran, The University of Tulsa - Solomon's Dream
The 1996 Prize
AMY YEE -- Wellesley College
In the Dark of the Kitchen
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Honorable Mentions:
  • Evetta A. Andersson, University of Nebraska at Omaha - The Butterfly King
  • P. E. Farquhar, SUNY at Albany - There are Stars Over Locust Street
  • Jillian Horton, University of Western Ontario - Bread
  • A. Rey Pamatmat, New York University - Belt
  • Allen Teng, University of California at Berkeley - The Angel of Salk
  • Silvia Turchin, University of Southern California - thieves
The 1995 Prize
K. E. PHILLIPS -- Cornell University
Pull Your Hat Down Tight
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First Honorable Mention:
CAROL WONG -- University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,
Dark Inside
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Carol Wong's first honorable mention in our Prize was given in 1994.

Honorable Mentions:
  • Amy Jo Anderson, University of Wisconsin - Confessions Ripped from the Pages of the Diary of a Half-Baked,
  • Empty-Tanked Drug Dealer
  • Ronica Bhattacharya, University of Chicago - Where You Find Two Women There is a Coterie
  • Marisa Castuera, Williams College - A Room All to Myself
  • Melissa Klein, University of Wisconsin - The African Eve
  • Kevin Lee, Williams College - Midnight Basketball
  • Clarke Colson Whitehead, SUNY at Stony Brook - Stormclouds Left of Heaven
The 1994 Prize
JULIE ANNE MCNARY--Wellesley College
Blessings from the Sandwoman

Honorable Mentions:
  • Christopher Castellani, Swarthmore College
  • Margaret K. Dodds, Wellesley College
  • Erin Flanagan, University of Nebraska
  • Giles Pinto, University of Alberta
  • Aliyah Abdur Rahman, SUNY at Stony Brook
  • Jeannie Wang, University of California at San Diego
  • Carol Wong, University of Victoria
Christopher Castellani of Swarthmore College was the 1992 winner of the Prize.
This is the second time that Margaret Dodds of Wellesley College has been recognized with an Honorable Mention, and we applaud her consistent high quality of writing.
The 1993 Prize
ZOË LANDALE--University of British Columbia
Dollie and Her Sister
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First Honorable Mention:
Yvette Louise,Columbia University - La revolucion

Honorable Mentions:
  • Simon Fanning, McGill University - Sacrifice
  • Shobita Mampilly, Indiana University - India Summers
  • Aliyah Silverstein, University of Michigan - No More Than You're Comfortable With
  • Yaelan Wong, Sarah Lawrence College - Letters About a Story Untold
The 1992 Prize
CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI--Swarthmore College
You'll Be Saying the Same Thing
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Honorable Mentions:
  • Margaret Dodds, Wellesley College - Dreams
  • Kenny Hung, Duke University - Black Beans & Rice
  • Ian Mount, Amherst College - The City
  • Seiji Ogata, UCLA - The Realization of Maya
  • Kimberly Yaman, University of Iowa - Winter Kill