We are thrilled to announce the winner and runners-up of the 2017 Crazyshorts! Short-Short Fiction Contest. The winner will receive $1,000, and her work will appear in Crazyhorse no. 93 this spring. After much deliberation, our editors have made the following selections:

Winner:
Colleen Mayo, “February”

Runners-up:
Evan Grillon, “Bed”
Nghiem Tran, “My Costume”
Paul Weidknecht, “Leviathan”

Congratulations to these outstanding writers. We are very grateful to have had so many outstanding short-short stories to consider.

We’re already looking forward to next year’s Crazyshorts! Short-Short Fiction Contest, which will begin accepting entries on July 1, 2018. In the meantime, we’ll be accepting entries for the Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry from January 1st to January 31st.