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Our 2023 Winter Online Exclusive is live!
Issue 33 featuring our 2023 Contest Winners is now available in print!
Contests
2024 Contests
The 2024 Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Contests just closed. They will reopen on January 15th, 2025. Learn more on our Contests page.
Congratulations to Michele Bombardier’s “Reading Shackleton During My Husband’s Cancer Treatment,” winner of the 2024 NORward Poetry Prize!
2023 Contest Winners
Congratulations to Jonathon Atkinson’s “Baby Suits,” selected as the winner of the 2023 Fiction Contest by Megan Giddings.
Congratulations to Arya Samuelson’s “I Am No Beekeeper,” selected as the winner of the 2023 Nonfiction Contest by Barrie Jean Borich.
Congratulation to Rebecca Foust’s “Has this ever happened to you,” selected as the winner of the 2023 Poetry Contest by Denise Duhamel.
Congratulations to Jill Michelle’s “On Our Way Home,” winner of the NORward Poetry Prize.
Award News
Notable Best American Stories and Essays
The following essays are Notable Essays in Best American Essays: Amelia Mairead McNally’s “On Throwing Things Away,” Amy Lee Scott’s “How Do You Name A Hurricane?,” Lisa Buchanan’s “One of Us and the Other,” Robert Stothart’s “Buried Fruit,” and Faith Shearin’s “Winter.”
Dustin M. Hoffman’s story “The Man with the Yellow Hat” from our 2022 Online Exclusive was named a Notable Story in Best American Short Stories.
2023 Best of the Net Nominations
New Ohio Review‘s poetry nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net are Abby E. Murray’s “When My Husband Asks What He Can Do To Convince Me He Loves Me, I Say,” Bonnie Proudfoot’s “Hot Enough,” Mike Santora’s “Cheap Thrill,” Mark Neely’s “Scavengers,” Arah Ko’s “Lazarus,” and Erin Redfern’s “If You’re Single and Touch-Hungry and Hear a Knock at the Door.”
New Ohio Review‘s fiction nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net are Catherine Uroff’s “Balloons” and Terry Dubow’s “Bandits.”
New Ohio Review‘s nonfiction nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net are Jesse Lee Kercheval’s “Speak Up” and Andrea Bianchi’s “The Silence of it All.”
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