Meet our Coppice Prize 2023 winners!

We’re thrilled to announce the winners, short listees, and long lists of our 2023 Coppice Prize, judged by Makenna Goodman, Alison B. Hart, and Beth Morgan!

The Winners

First place: Catalina, Alison Fields

Second place: You Were Not Icarus, Lucy Zhang

Third place: Furry Creatures, Vicki Derderian

Honorable Mention: Winter's Light, Andleeb Shadani

Short list

Pure and Impure, Saira Khan

The One Who Tucks You In At Night, Lauren Davis

In the Plane, Wendy BooydeGraaff

Prohibition, Kristina Ryan Tate

Ordinary Objects, Emily Alexander

Enough for Now, Elisa Faison

Long list

A Region of Grass, Charles Anderson

Yellow, Jenneca Graber-Grace

Losing It, Jessica Lin

We Get Geese, Sarah Berger

Living Space, Efembe Eke

Addio, Jacqueline St. Joan

The Hanoverians, Kevin LaTorre

Someone in Florida Loves Me, Mary Liza Hartong

Sugared Sky, Kayleigh Dixon

Blood Moon, Shira Haus

Hello Stranger, Alex Steele

Army Crawl, Sarah Swandell

Stray, Kay McSpadden

Murder Story, Stephanie Sellers

Down the Road We Go, Susan Morritt

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Please join us in giving all of these writers a huge congratulations! And don’t forget to preorder the 2023 anthology, which will showcase the three winners plus the honorable mention!