Our Fiction Editor, Carrie Lee South, chose “Outside Voices” by Sarah Harris Wallman as this year’s winning story. Here’s what Carrie had to say about the story: “‘Outside Voices’ is a searing portrait of the quiet but desperate yearning of modern mother/womanhood. Who are the selves we’ve sacrificed? Are those versions of us living other lives somewhere? Sarah Harris Wallman explores what it means to be ‘seen,’ and to want to be seen, even when no one really sees us.”
 
Wallman a fictioneer who was born in Arkansas, grew up in Nashville, got a degree in Charlottesville, VA and another in Pittsburgh. She’ s lived in Glastonbury, UK and New York City. Bits of all these places wind up in her fiction and though she loved them all, she now lives in New Haven, CT.  It’ s not bad either. She’s only been robbed at gunpoint once. 
 
Congrats, Sarah! Check out her story here. ​

short story contest

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StoryBottle Co.’s Short Story Contest seeks just that: great stories. Regardless of genre or classification, we want to see it all. The winner will receive $1,000 prize, publication online as well as in print, and ten copies of the issue. Second and third place will also be published online and in the issue. The next contest will run from October 15, 2025 to January 15, 2026. 

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guidelines:

• Submit one story up to 10,000 words by January 15, 2025. 

• Multiple and simultaneous submissions are fine, but each story must be submitted separately and withdrawn if accepted elsewhere.

• Entries must be previously unpublished.

• Please remove name and any identifying info from the manuscript.

• Writers with pre-existing relationships with the editors are not eligible. ​​

• The entry fee is $15.

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