And the winner is…

Congratulations to Catherine Rose Torres and her story “Blown Glass” for winning Escape Into Life‘s First Annual Fiction Contest judged by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler.  Our runner up is “Dinner with Sean Penn” by Amber Burke.

Starting May 1st, we look forward to bringing you these stories and the rest of our finalists: “He is Our Son” by Marie Shield, “Mikvah” by Joyce Lee, and “America’s Greatest Hero” by Jon Maci.

Again, we’d like to thank everyone for their submissions to the contest.  If you’ve enjoyed the stories that we’ve been publishing the last few months, get ready for the next wave we have coming to carry you into summer. 

Now go tell your friends.  We’ve got some good reading waiting for them.

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