Congratulations 2024 1st Place Winners
Poetry – Selected by Jericho Brown
Arielle Hebert: “Athazagoraphobia”
Creative Nonfiction – Selected by Maggie Smith
Caroline Hamilton Langerman: “The Difficult Child”
Fiction – Selected by Clyde Edgerton
Michael Sadoff: “Decoy”
Winners receive $1,000 plus publication in Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit
Congratulations to All Winners & Finalists!
POETRY
Winner: Arielle Hebert: “Athazagoraphobia”
Additional Finalists:
Caeli Faisst: “Withering”
Caroline Wilson: “Oak Gall Prayer”
Christine Marshall: “The Evolution of Flight”
Eddy Hicks: “Soiled”
Em Palughi: “Radnor Lake, July 4th”
Eric Nelson: “O My World”
Erin Cowles: “Cut me, I won’t die”
Janet Ford: “Pizza Hut on Central Avenue, 1:00 am”
Jo Angela Edwins: “The Carriage”
Maria Picone: “To the guy who made me a pretzel at the mall and wouldn’t give up until I told him where I’m really, really from”
Max Seifert: “The Incredulity”
Nadine Ellsworth: “Three Portraits of Women on Fire”
Regina Garcia: “High John”
Rosa Castellano: “A girl the color of sunshine on water…”
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Winner: Caroline Hamilton Langerman: “The Difficult Child”
Additional Finalists:
Kristen Dorsey: “Vine of My Soul”
Mary Tribble: “Our Mothers Map Our Lives”
Sarah Hosseini: “Just Five Minutes”
Stephanie Gilman: “Revisions”
Terri Leonard: “Gurus: Water Oaks on Motherhood”
FICTION
Winner: Michael Sadoff: “Decoy”
Honorable Mention: Anna Schachner: “The Lovely Woods Are Yours”
Honorable Mention: Melanie Raskin: “Wishbone”
Additional Finalists:
Michael Brown: “Belize”
Stevenson Richardson: “The Get-Gone Man”
Vicki Derderian: “Binder of Guys”
William Wyatt: “Barbicide” and “Broken Water”
Finalists receive $100 plus publication in Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit
About the Lit/South Awards & Litmosphere Journal
Charlotte Lit’s Lit/South Awards are on hiatus. From 2022 to 2024, we awarded more than $20,000 in prizes plus publication to writers who were current or past residents of North Carolina or its border states, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. All winners, finalists, and selected semi-finalists were published in print and online issues of Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, alongside the works of our judges.
Litmosphere is now a paying, open-submission journal published online in March and September. Submit in the first week of January and July through our Submittable page.