2021 Winners & Honorable Mentions
1st Place
Alejandro de Gutierre
In the Shadow
2nd Place
Kerri Schlottman
A Daytime Moon
3rd Place
Christopher Whyland
The Exit Guide
Honorable Mentions
Nora Studholme
The Scales
Cynthia Singerman
The Most Interesting Man in the World
Alexandra Gowling
After the Seige of Syracuse
Rudy Ruiz
Allegiance
Anna Millard
Mary Oliver Is Dead and I Am Traveling to Paris or How an Atheist Prays
Byron Spooner
The Acrobat Rides the Horse in Sequins
Ronald Meek
The Terrible Degas
Les Zig
The Slush Pile Demolitionist
Ellen Sollinger Walker
Undercover
Emma Gilberthorpe
A Visitation of Swallows
Cash Prizes
1st Place – $2,000
2nd Place – $1,000
3rd Place – $500
Honorable Mentions – $50
All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the print anthology,
and will receive one (1) free contributor copy.
All other entries will be considered for publication in a TDR Issue or TDR Daily. All TDR publications are considered at the end of the year for our Best of the Best print anthology. The writer has the right to refuse this offer of publication.