Announcing the Short List of Finalists for the 2025 HoneyBee Prize
May 27, 2025
Huzzah, we’ve finally done it! At long last the team is finished reading and deliberating submissions for the 2025 Honeybee Prize. This included hundreds of stories and essays and over a thousand poems! We’re pleased to report that finalists have been sent to the judges in each of the 5 genres.
And we’re equally as excited to heave a hearty congratulations in the direction of those that made it onto this year’s short list. ↓↓↓
The cure to all the maladies by Jonathan Greenhause
Red and Yellow Light over the Top of Houses by Dolapo Demuren
Every Room is a Sonnet by Dolapo Demuren
Drowned Crawdads by Sara Shea
The Year I Carried You by Sara Shea
Wedged Together We Are Flying by Reva Johnson
Silence bears no fruit by Erwin Arroyo Pérez
English Is My Second Language by Erwin Arroyo Pérez
Yes, she did by Ashlie Hyer
Autobiography of a Violin by Cassie Burkhardt
Arouse Yourself by Yin Cheng
Surely Every Man is Mere Breath by Yin Cheng
The Weight of His Chair by Sam Aureli
True Apothecary by Ellie Gold Laabs
The Widower Writes from the Shipwreck by Ellie Gold Laabs
Before the Everything After by Jaime Gill & Charlie Rogers
Solitary Creatures by Jaime Gill & Charlie Rogers
Do You by Alison Sanders
While Making Out the Lineup for Tomorrow’s 12U Softball Championship Game by Jim Parisi
The Summer He left by Alison Sanders
Hands by Pam Anderson
The Leftovers by Michelle La Vone
Attack by Ginger Tolman
Protocols and Such by Camara Garrett
I Conjure My Great-Grandmother and Ask for Her Life Story. She Visits My Dreams and Gives Me a Lesson on Revision by Alayna Powell
Theatre of Solace by Nicole Bazemore
Peabody by Joe Cappello
Mr. Jensen by Madeline Rosales
Take Me Through the Finish by Tom Ziemer
When Mr. Boppo Joined the Cohort by Sharon Lee Snow
On the Telephone with Mom by Dean Gessie
36 Hours in Lecce by Anne Schuchman
The Laundry Hangs at Noon by Ginger Tolman
Stay tuned to learn the results of the contest and who the judges selected as the winners.
If you missed sending work for the prize this year (or even if you didn’t), there’s always another chance just around the next bend. And, we’re always open. Click here to give us a go. ↓↓↓
As a reminder, we nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions and… YES we are a paying market! ($60 per piece published in the seasonal issue, $25 per piece published in Micro Monday, $50 for cover art).
Your work will be handled with care and read by at least two (typically three or more) members of our editorial team.
Peace and Love,
The Good Life Review Team
