Short Story Contest | Los Angeles Public Library

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Short Story Summer 2020 Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the Summer 2020 Los Angeles Public Library Short Story Contest. From a total of 265 stories submitted, the following 12 stories were selected for publication on our online short story portal.

American Pie by Matthew Blashill
Instructions for Calling a Taxi (and How They Were Etched Inside Me) by P J Goddard
The Last Time I Saw Her by Helene Seifer
Lost House by Farideh Shabanfar
Nothing Ever Lasts Forever by Robb Lanum
Nurse by Karen Yin
Rain by Kathryn Feeney
Tamale Wednesdays by Morgan Hatch
The Repetition Tango by Alicia Thomspson
Sour Grapes by Layla Jasmine
The Strange Impression of an Absence by Mabel Aceves Lopez
The Woman in Green by Panpan Wang

Get Your Short Story Published

Want to get your short story in front of readers everywhere? Submit your work of 8,000 characters or fewer before August 31, and it could be published in the library's online short story portal.

Contest Timeline: August 1 - August 31 2020

Details

Local authors are invited to submit their short stories to Los Angeles Public Library to be included in our online short story portal and printed via our Short Story dispenser located at Central Library.
Stories can be of any genre, for example: drama, romance, science fiction, etc.
Authors must accept the terms and conditions
Authors can submit more than one entry
Age: 18 and older

Submission Process

Create an account in the Short Story Portal
Click on the Submit button in the upper right corner
Fill out the application
Consent to the terms and conditions

Submit Your Story

We are no longer accepting submissions for 2020.

Prize

The winning story will be added to a permanent library collection alongside Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf via Los Angeles Public Library’s Short Story Portal and printed via the dispenser at Central Library.

The top winner in each category will also receive a gift bag with a selection of library gear.

Questions? Please contact us at shortstories@lapl.org

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