by Isaac Blum
2023 WINNER!
Yehuda "Hoodie" Rosen is a teen whose Orthodox Jewish community has just moved to a quiet, mostly gentile town, and the people — especially the Mayor — aren't especially welcoming. When Hoodi...
by Jen Ferguson
2023 Finalist
Lou is spending the summer working at her family's Métis ice cream stand when two people re-enter her life: a man she never wished to meet and her former best friend she hasn't heard from in years. ...
by Elizabeth Kilcoyne
A dark horror fantasy about Laurel Early, a young woman who drops out of her first year of college to return to the rural Kentucky farm she grew up on, raised by her uncle after her mother's death when she was a ...
by Sonora Reyes
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is als...
by Andrew Joseph White
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him – the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a pla...