2023 Honeybee Prize Finalists
June 1, 2023
Hello friends! Welcome to June and the start of summer. As everyone knows, summer is honey bee season and for all of us here at TGLR, that also means we’re gearing up to celebrate the highly anticipated results of our annual contest, the Honeybee Literature Prize.
This year we had 285 submissions across the three categories of poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction, and it was even tougher than last year to narrow down all the wonderful work we received to just a handful of finalists.
We’re grateful for everyone who sent us their stories, essays and poems and know that the contest judges – Roxane Gay, Rodrigo Toscano, and Hugh Reilly – have their work cut out for them in selecting the winners and runners up from this stellar lineup:
- Contradictions of Being by Karan Kapoor
- the come back by Simone Flynn
- Ras Tafari Ghazal by Oak Morse
- Amnesty Week by R.J. Lambert
- “For Kenny” by Kelsey Smoot
- Obit by Kait Quinn
- To Brother-Ghost on Halloween by Pell Williams
- The Riddle by Devon Parish
- Selfishly, I Planted Flowers by Rachel Sussman
- Coyote by Nicki Orser
- First Wound by Natasha Chiam
- Endangered by Margaret Lynch
- Midway by Allie Dixon
- The Year of the Self by Brittany Cortez
- Pretty Women by Blake Kinnett
- Birds of Prey by Tiffany Promise
- Language of Family by Hemmy So
- Allie by Addie Lovell
Congratulations to all the finalists for their fabulous poems, essays, and stories!! We will be announcing the winners and runners-up by the end of the month. Stay tuned…
Cheers,
~The Good Life Review Team
