Writers of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 42

And the winners are:

First Place – Thomas K Slee from Australia
Second Place – Brenda Posey from Alabama
Third Place – Michael Strickland from Colorado

Finalists:

Theo Carr from Great Britain
Cara Giles from Utah
Daniel J. Lane from New Hampshire
Jay Oatway from Great Britain
L.A. Selby from California

Semi-Finalists:

CBW Conway from Canada
Megan Dodds from Great Britain
Walter Goralski from Arizona
R.J. Howell from Illinois
CJ Immel from Indiana
Joseph Isenberg from Iowa
Quincy Lee from Minnesota
Zoe Nelson from Wisconsin
Karin J. Robinson from Great Britain
Alice St. Stirlng from Pennsylvania

Silver Honorable Mentions:

Olubunmi Adeloye from District of Columbia
C.M. Andrews from Utah
Austin Baker from Arizona
Arden Baker from Australia
Amber Baughman from South Carolina
Christopher Baxter from Utah
Rick Bennett from Utah
Lou J Berger from Colorado
GL Bertram from Utah
Taya Bookerlunds from Utah
Dom D. Borg from China
Ella Brennan from Illinois
Felecia Burgett from Ohio
Loreen Carlson from Utah
Brandon Case from Nevada
C E Chester from Montana
Kim Claussen from Canada
Noelia Marieva Colan from New York
L.H. Cole from California
Michael Anthony Dioguardi from New York
O.L. Drake from North Carolina
K. Durtschi from Utah
Joshua Dyer from West Virginia
Rachel Elizabeth from Georgia
Elina Escher from California
Bryce Fessler from Nevada
Tim Ford from Canada
Jason D. Francois from Great Britain
Jason Gallagher from New Jersey
Gene Gallistel from Wisconsin
Tiina Giocada from Canada
Ayleen Gonzalez from Texas
Jentina Grey from California
Trent Guillory from Texas
Lesley Hart Gunn from Utah
Oliver Hicks from California
Laura Hollister from California
Georgia Hope from Texas
Margaux Ip-Geisler from New Mexico
Jared A. Jackson from Florida
Lenore James from California
Michael Koontz from Canada
Nicholas Kotar from New York
Michael Kuester from Ohio
Tyler Lee from Massachusetts
Eva Leppard from Australia
Jennifer Lesh Fleck from Washington
Irene Liang from Texas
Karly M. Lively from Nevada
Ennis Lucy from Canada
Edward Mack from Connecticut
William Mangieri from Texas
Collin Masteller from California
M.L. McCortney from New York
Tara McKee from Washington
John McLaughlin from Pennsylvania
A.M. Mischler from Wisconsin
Sam Moses from Utah
Katelynn Mulder from Colorado
Samuel Nestor from Washington
Cara OíSullivan from Utah
Cherise Papa from Virginia
Josh Poole from Virginia
M.K. Ragab from Egypt
Adrian Rayner from Great Britain
Christian Riley from California
Victoria Rivera from Utah
Francisco Ruiz from Illinois
J. F. Sebastian from Canada
M. Gamble See from Idaho
Marianna Shek from Australia
Pierre-Alexandre Sicart from Taiwan
Sandra Siegienski from Oregon
Gideon P. Smith from Virginia
Heidi Sommer from Utah
I.J. Sparks from Colorado
J K Stephens from Florida
Ramya Suresh from Washington
Noor Us Sabah Tauqeer Ahsan from Pakistan
Nick Thomas from Ohio
Stephanie Turner from Canada
D.S. Watson from Alabama
Olga Werby from California
Amy Wethington from South Carolina
Rhiannon White from Tennessee
A Wilkins from Auckland
E.C. Wonder from Ohio
William R.D. Wood from Virginia
Robin Young from Great Britain

Honorable Mentions:

Timothy Abt from Colorado
Jason A. Adams from Virginia
K.C. Aegis from California
Patricia Ahlborn from Sweden
Nimisha Ajaikumar from India
Rana Aldaw from Canada
Sophie Alexander from Oregon
Star Allbright from Utah
Bradley Allen from Utah
Benedict J. Amato from New York
Ly Ann from Canada
Frasier Armitage from Great Britain
Kayla J Armstrong from Montana
Andrew Armstrong from New York
Carmina Arocho from New York
Rachel Baker from Oregon
Margaret Balch-Gonzalez from Rhode Island
Jennifer M. Baldwin from Michigan
Erica Balfour from Colorado
Andrew Barber from Virginia
Samuel Barnard from Wisconsin
Cassandra Beals from Wisconsin
David Berger from New York
Paula Binnell from Canada
Chandrima Biswas from India
C.L. Black from Ukraine
Naomi Boora from Canada
Tyler Bourassa from Canada
Thora Bratlie from Minnesota
Melanie Breihan from Missouri
P.K. Brent from Florida
Michael D. Britton from Utah
Morgan Broadhead from Ohio
Hannah Brown from Massachusetts
Gabriel Burch from Oklahoma
Spearman Burke from Missouri
L.D. Burke from Indiana
Paige Burlison from California
Margaret Bush from Texas
Joel Buxton from Canada
Jack Calverley from Great Britain
Veronica Campbell from Wisconsin
Kirsty Campbell from Canada
Aaron Canton from Utah
Meg Carey from Massachusetts
Danielle Carlson from Hong Kong
Jenny Perry Carr from Texas
Brenda Carre from Canada
Bret Chandler from Illinois
Jean-Franscois Chanier from Canada
A.C. Chopin from Colorado
Refugia Christine from Colorado
Tomaž Cigüt from Slovenia
Chalkie Clarke from United Kingdom
A.J. Coates from Canada
David J. Cochrane from Louisianna
Daniel M. Cojocaru from Switzerland
L.M. Conkling from California
D.B. Corsi from North Carolina
Heath Cowled from Australia
Adrian Croft from Canada
Matthew Cushing from Connecticut
Liv Daigneault from Connecticut
Kate Dane from Minnesota
Grant Daniels from Ohio
Edward Daschle from Maryland
Terry Daugherty from Maryland
Dorothy de Kok from South Africa
Evan Deign from Spain
Fabien Delorme from France
R.S. Demetrios from Texas
Topher Demitris from New York
Harper Dent from Australia
Taya DeVere from Finland
Michelle J. Diaz from Oregon
Cray Dimensional from Pennsylvania
G L DíWhite from Great Britain
Victoria L. Dixon from Kansas
Phillip E. Dixon from Nevada
Jaquelyn Dohoney from Utah
Austin Z. Durham from Alabama
Timothy Dwyer from Great Britain
Douglas E. Hamilton from South Carolina
E.M. East from Idaho
Jennifer Eatough from Utah
Michele Emmy from Colorado
Alex English from Illinois
Avery Estep from Oklahoma
Sam Everton from Utah
Timothy Falasca from Florida
Jaden Farquhar from Massachusetts
Alex Fayle from Spain
Zary Fekete from Minnesota
Aedan Ferrara from California
Sean T Finn from New York
Jenn Fir from California
Oliver Fox from Texas
Oz A. Fox from Missouri
Joseph Friesen from Canada
J.J. Galluzzo from Montana
Henry Gasko from Australia
Mark Gordon from Florida
Peter Michael Gray from Great Britain
Dannie Gray from North Carolina
H.Y. Gregor from Colorado
Echo Guernsey from California
Austin Gunderson from Utah
Adrianne Gunter from Pennsylvania
Faith Guttman from New Hampshire
Clint A. Hall from Canada
Logan Hardinger from Wisconsin
P. Harris Seeley from Canada
Benjamin Hewett from Texas
PJ Higham from Australia
Bradley Hinson from Colorado
C.W. Holeman III from Montana
Benjamin T. Hollingsworth from Mississippi
Kevin Holochwost from Massachusetts
Doc Honour from Florida
Melissa Hopper from Washington
G.C. Hughes from Great Britain
Andrew Hughes from Arizona
Gregory R. Hyde from Colorado
Marc Hyden from Wisconsin
Sara Itka from Florida
Lauren Johansen from South Carolina
S.L. Johnson from Australia
R.A. Johnson from Pennsylvania
Hannah K. Johnson from Pennsylvania
Todd Jones from Michigan
Kent Alan Jones from Iowa
Ian Jones from West Virginia
Eli Jones from Oregon
Stephen Kagan from Canada
Arindam Kalita from India
Vivi Kanari from Greece
Merve Karaduman from Turkey
Myra Karine from Utah
A.S. Kassabian from Utah
Hannya Kay from Spain
Angela Kayd from Massachusetts
Janessa Keeling from Kentucky
Peter Keenan from Texas
Kristina Kelly from Indiana
Kevin Kepko from Florida
Chey Kerr from Illinois
Kari Kilgore from Virginia
Philip Kimmel from Illinois
J.C. Klocke from Missouri
David Klotzkin from New York
Anitha Krishnan from Canada
Udy Kumra from North Carolina
Guðjón Þór Lárusson from Iceland
A.G. Lamar from Ohio
Mathew Lebowitz from Massachusetts
Hermione Lee from Taiwan
Darren Lipman from Wisconsin
Gene Louviere from Louisianna
Matthew Lucas from Florida
Joe Luther from Iowa
Sean Mabry from California
Geoff MacDonald from Canada
Russ T. Mann from Wisconsin
Cheyenne Mann from Rhode Island
Anneli Marks from Denmark
Jacob Marley from California
Charley Marsh from Minnesota
Remi Martin from Great Britain
Kain Massin from Australia
Chris Mayer from Pennsylvania
Robert J. McCarter from Arizona
Molly Ann McDonough from Tennessee
Hallie McKeithen from Florida
L.T. Meier from Oregon
Andy Meisner from Washington
Spencer Merrell from Utah
Devin Miller from North Carolina
Josh Morrey from Utah
Ross Myers from Missouri
Maya C. Nelson from Pennsylvania
Jayant Neogy from India
Jan Nerenberg from Oregon
Alice Nord from France
R.J. Novotney from Wisconsin
Eva Oiko from Greece
Sam Page from California
Travis Park from Indiana
Alita Parke from Montana
Diana Parrilla from Spain
B.A. Paul from Indiana
A.J. Payler from California
John Pegios from Australia
Jacob Perez from Connecticut
Bill Perry from Alabama
Mark Peterson from Minnesota
Maia Pham from California
Fred Phillips from Louisianna
Lauren Pope from Utah
Robert Porteous from Australia
Beth Powers from Indiana
Edward Prestwood from Arizona
Allan T. Price from Australia
Madeline Prins from California
K.R. Queen from Washington
Carlos Ramirez from New Jersey
Robbie Reilly from Japan
K.Z. Richards from Ohio
J.M. Roberts from Illinois
Bud Robertson from Nevada
Michael Roca from California
Maddie Roubik from Wisconsin
Matthew Salerno from New Jersey
Scott M. Sands from Australia
Annmarie SanSevero from Arkansas
Shakthi Sarasvati from Texas
Christopher D. Schmitz from Iowa
Armen Seyranyan from Armenia
Karen Sheard from Great Britain
Kartikeya Shekhar from India
Duncan Shepard from Connecticut
Joseph Sidari from Massachusetts
C.E. Singer from New Jersey
Eric Sisco from Wisconsin
Kaitlyn Smith from California
Conrad Smith from Utah
Cameron Snell from Great Britain
Ariana Solomon from Maryland
Anthony St. Clair from Oregon
David Stearns from Idaho
C.W. Stevenson from Texas
Amanda Storm from California
Tay Tan from Malaysia
Tyler Tarter from Utah
A.S. Taylor from Nevada
J.J. Taylor from Mississippi
Niz Thomas from New Jersey
Joel Thomas from California
Melissa Tolliver from Texas
Jennifer Tooker from South Carolina
Anna Liz Turner from North Carolina
Christopher Tuthill from New York
J.C. Unitt from Great Britain
Marcia Utomo from Illinois
Kevin Veitia from Florida
Sean Eric P. Villaverde from California
Jan Paolo Villaverde from Philippines
Alex Vrettos from Great Britain
Sophie W R from Arkansas
Zachary Warner from Idaho
Nyx Waterhouse from Israel
Abigail Welborn from Florida
Kevin West from Germany
Morgan West-Burnham from Colorado
Rebecca White from Great Britain
Jake White from Ohio
Jay Whitewolf from Arizona
Jarrod K. Williams from Ohio
Elizabeth Wither from Canada
Stephen Woodfall from California
Ai Lee Woods from Utah
Sarit Zadok from France
Eli Zaren from Texas
Bradley Zeiger from Oregon
Wanying Zhang from Canada