Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the winners of the 16th Annual Short Short Story Competition, where writers submit their very best short stories of less than 1,500 words. Please join us in congratulating our winners!
For complete coverage of the 16th Annual Short Short Story Competition, see the July/August 2016 issue of Writer’s Digest. You can read all 25 stories in the 16th Annual Short Short Story Competition Collection.
- “The Vows” by Kelly Dowling (extended Q&A)
- “The Snatch” by Suzanna Myatt Harvill
- “The Mayer of Dorkville” by Adam Black
- “Proper Offerings” by Vincent Crampton
- “The Bus Rider” by Mike Diccicco
- “Unrequited Something” by Ashley Nelson
- “Five and Five” by Bikram Sharma
- “The Dowser” by Hans Weidman
- “Washed Up” by Jennie Brickner
- “The Predicament of Planting Sunflowers: Perspective I” by E. Ellis Allen
- “What Happened” by Neil H. McCabe
- “Belladonna” by Lam Bauman
- “Leucotomy” by Julie McNeely-Kirwan
- “Her” by Richelle Starke
- “The Fire of the Gods” by J.C. McKenna
- “Beyond the Curtain” by Barbara Hanks
- “The Penny” by Gerry Aubrey
- “Dance Among the Dogwoods” by Scott Sharpe
- “Quitting” by Stefan-José Garcia
- “Mister Hobson’s Mustache” by Bart Kuipers
- “Working Vacation” by Chris Mills
- “Lost and Found” by Janet Cincotta
- “Blood and Roses” by Janet Youngdahl
- “Siren” by Lindsey Kennedy
- “Maverick” by Kathryn Zehm