Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘The Prize’
In this dreamlike tale, a struggling poet sabotages the contest he’s judging.
Since 1954
Adam Soto is the author of the forthcoming novel Dear Future. He earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in Catapult, Glimmer Train, and Kenyon Review. He lives in Austin, where he is a teacher, a musician, and an assistant editor for American Short Fiction.
In this dreamlike tale, a struggling poet sabotages the contest he’s judging.