Final Judge: John Weir
God Wears a Hard Hat by J. Dominic Patacsil
There comes a rare moment in life, when all else can and has failed, that you may find yourself like me, looking at a Dutch guide named Jan, who ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Flash Fiction Award: J. Dominic Patacsil
Award Winners, Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Final Judge: M. Soledad Caballero
night prowlers in fellowship by Waqas Khwaja
night prowlers in fellowship by Waqas Khwaja
submerged reefs
submarine canyons and spiked ridges
knobbled full of ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Poetry Award: Waqas Khwaja
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
Final Judge: Chelsey Clammer
Life Support by Andrew Wei
In North Texas, the place I knew as home for many years, the storms in late spring come down like a hammer. One warm humid afternoon, I stepped outside just ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Creative Nonfiction Award: Andrew Wei
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Final Judge: Carlos Allende
These Poor Mothers by Vera Chan
They look like my daughter. Sixteen or seventeen, blonde hair that touches their shoul ders, pale faces. The newspaper runs their photographs in black ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Short Fiction Award: Vera Chan
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Triptych: Little Deities
1. EL-BO
The morning after she said no to the woman she might have loved, she was accosted by her left elbow.
EL-BO, it rumbled, a sustained funnybone feeling, ...
2022 Flash Fiction Award Winner: Eliezra Schaffzin
Award Winners, LAR Online
Middle School
Washington Heights, New York City, 1970
On a rainy day after school I finally get to see Patrice again. We meet up at the pizza joint on St. Nicholas Avenue packed with people staying out ...
2022 Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Melinda Goodman
Award Winners, LAR Online
Wedding Rice by Joshua Levy
Many lines in this story are lyrics from the song "Pigeons," written by Bill Callahan, (C) 2020 Your/My Music (BMI), from the album Gold Record. The lyrics are highlighted in ...
2022 Short Fiction Award Winner: Joshua Levy
Award Winners, LAR Online
Ode to My Brother, My Dealer, and Instacart Workers in 2020
There are things this year I learned
I would unlearn without pause, like that
I want a woman to shop for my groceries,
her ...
2022 Poetry Award Winner: Haylee Millikan
Award Winners, LAR Online
Catalog
The first counselor arrives, slipping out of a dark winter coat. He’s dressed in a dark suit and tie, white shirt starched and stiff. The rest of us arrive, the girls I grew up with, playing jump ...
2021 LAR Short Fiction Award Winner: Marilyn Abildskov
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
