We are excited to announce the 2019 Open Reading Period Fiction Semifinalists!
We were delighted to receive so many powerful manuscripts through this year's Open Reading Period for Fiction. Thank you so much to all who submitted their work this year! After our preliminary readings—during which we read a fifty page sample from each writer—these twenty-three authors will be invited to submit their complete manuscripts for consideration.
Congratulations to our Semifinalists!
Lydia Rose and the Dream Museum by Michelle Blake
Fish Cough by Craig Buchner
Embodied by Emrys Donaldson
Stripped in Pornland by Jaime Dunkle
What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me by Donna Gordon
GO ON WITHOUT ME by Alissa Hattman
Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret by Tim Jones-Yelvington
SNOW AT 5PM by Jee Leong Koh
Catamount by Malia Marquez
From the Love of Strangers by Ellen Michaelson
A Loss to the Stuffed Animal Kingdom by Ilan Mochari
The Hole in the Hand by Jefferson Navicky
The Book of Wanderers by Reyes Ramirez
BOW by Jessica Lee Richardson
Utah: A Novel by Levi Rogers
Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper by Christopher David Rosales
THEY ALWAYS WAVE GOODBYE by Cathryn Sherman
Detroit Fairy Tales by Elisa Sinnett
SHE’S TIRED OF GOING NOWHERE by Kelly Lynn Thomas
THE HUNTED by Todd Tobias
Fault Lines by Liz Tucker
And There Came Forth a Great Fish by Tom Weller
Here is the Church, Here is the Steeple by Diana Xin
