Short Story Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Short Story Contest hosted by the Clermont County Public Library. We received 29 adult entries and 32 teen entries this year. We truly appreciate you sharing your stories!
Short Story Contest Winners 2021
The first, second, and third place winners in both categories have been selected.
Adult Winners
- First Place: Two Kittens and A Pig Named Ed by Max West
- Second Place: Music Hall Ghost Story by Tiffany Tanner
- Third Place: My Mom, My Ward by Laurence Fronk
Teen Winners
- First Place: Swept Away by Ingrid Erickson
- Second Place: Willie’s Quokka by Ellie Duffy
- Third Place: A Mouse Story by Leah Dagenbach
Click the button below to head to the stories. As always, reader discretion is advised.
The entries were judged anonymously and evaluated independently. The highest scoring entries were sent to a professor at UC Clermont College. The professor also read the entries without knowing the authors and then chose the winners for both categories.
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote, “But how could you live and have no story to tell?” Thank you to all who entered and told yours to us. There were many excellent entries this year including those who did not place.
Can you give a full list of the hierarchy? I’d like to see how I placed even if I didn’t make the top three. I was in the teen division with The Saffron Sky
Hi AJ, one of our staff members is going to email you directly about your story. Thanks for entering the contest and sharing your work with us!