2020 Contest Winners

The 2020 Pinch Literary Awards

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of our 2020 Pinch Literary Awards!

Read both of these captivating pieces in Volume 40.2

Fiction (Judged by Bryan Washington)

Tracey Lien for “Ms. Lee”

Tracey Lien grew up in South Western Sydney, Australia, the daughter of refugees from Vietnam. Previously a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, she is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Kansas. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Penn Review, The Tahoma Literary Review, and The Minnesota Review. She was the recipient of the 2020 Langston Hughes Award for poetry.

Poetry (Judged by Franny Choi)

Justin Jannise for “Flamingosexual”

Justin’s work has been published in or is forthcoming from the Yale Review, Copper Nickel, Hobart, Electric Lit, Columbia Journal, and New Ohio Review. Most days he works as Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast.