Winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Final Judge: Sarah Cannon
My mother takes anastrozole as adjuvant therapy to reduce her risk of recurrence of breast ...
A Brief Encyclopedia of My Mother’s Cancer by Anna Leahy
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Final Judge: Sarah Cannon
I see: everything. Fima’s fist, French fries jutting between tattooed fingers. ...
Knuckleball by Katie Wisel
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Flash Fiction.
Final Judge: Ron Koertge
Letters From the Desk of President Jefferson
June 19th, 1804
Mister Barlow,
I hope ...
To My Dear Friend, Joel Barlow by Chavonn Shen
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Short Fiction.
Final Judge: Doug Lawson
The baby octopus in my shirt drawer misses the ocean, but she doesn’t know how to tell me ...
The Baby Octopus by Rainie Oet
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Poetry.
Final Judge: Douglas Manuel
Silver flowers—a blindman’s word,
give the blossom, not bullets—
of sugarcane rustled ...
This Is About Time by Naoko Fujimoto
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Short Fiction.
Final Judge: tammy lynne stoner
James labors on top of her. Teeth gritted, brow furrowed: this sort of grim ...
The Killing Jar by Jennifer Hritz
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Final Judge: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Crack.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Pop.
I’m in an oven, ready for roasting. ...
7 lbs., 8 oz by Stephanie Wobby
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Flash Fiction.
Final Judge: Brittany Ackerman
Mother Chen’s fingers ache, cracked from washing feet and floors all day, but still ...
Cheap Mother by Jeremy Tsai
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
If she could not find plastic bags to tie around her wrists and wrap over her palms, she would have to sleep with her hands dangling off the bed, avoiding the duvet cover at all costs, and that would mean a night of ...
Ayna by Seema Yasmin
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online