We are very pleased to announce judge Neil Carpathios’s pick of “Travels to the Valley of Lost Things,” by Mary K. O’Melveny, as the winner of this year’s Slippery Elm Prize in Poetry! Neil says, “‘Travels to the Valley of Lost Things’ creatively overlaps with the famous epic poem ‘Orlando Furioso’ (1516), by the great…

Results are in, and we are delighted to announce judge Sharon Short’s pick of “Ashes to Ashes,” by Matthew Coz, as the winner of this year’s Slippery Elm Prize in Prose! Sharon says, “This story uses the metaphor of a covered pool, and both the ecosystem that grows on top and what lurks underneath, to…

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