Hyphen and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop are pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Contest: Sunil Yapa for “Pilgrims.” “Pilgrims” was chosen by judges Alexander Chee and Jaed Coffin as the winner of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Contest. Yapa will be awarded $1000 and “Pilgrims” will be published in the Fall Issue of Hyphen, to be on newsstands this September.
The finalists, who will receive a one-year subscription to Hyphen and a one-year membership to AAWW, were:
Viet Dinh for “Lucky Dragon”
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier for “Antique”
Marjan Kamali for “Tehran Party”
Stellar Kim for “Dissolution”
Tsering Lama for “The Greatest Tibetan Ever Born”
Jenie Pak for “Something Out There”
JK Shushtari for “The Sweet Dry Fruit of the Lotus Tree”
Shilpi Suneja for “The Simpleton”
Shruti Swamy for “Blindness”
The organizers received a record-breaking number of submissions for the contest this year. Past winners of the Asian American Short Story Contest include Preeta Samarasa and Shivani Manghnani.
More information here.
The finalists, who will receive a one-year subscription to Hyphen and a one-year membership to AAWW, were:
Viet Dinh for “Lucky Dragon”
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier for “Antique”
Marjan Kamali for “Tehran Party”
Stellar Kim for “Dissolution”
Tsering Lama for “The Greatest Tibetan Ever Born”
Jenie Pak for “Something Out There”
JK Shushtari for “The Sweet Dry Fruit of the Lotus Tree”
Shilpi Suneja for “The Simpleton”
Shruti Swamy for “Blindness”
The organizers received a record-breaking number of submissions for the contest this year. Past winners of the Asian American Short Story Contest include Preeta Samarasa and Shivani Manghnani.
More information here.
