Announcing the Winners of The Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction

Eckleburg is pleased to announce the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winners. Thank you to all the talented writers who submitted and their incredible patience as we, our families and literary community recovered from the COVID pandemic. It is always a difficult task choosing among so many fine stories and it is truly the talents within our Eckleburg community that often kept us going. Much love to all. We look forward to reading more from you.

First Place Winner of The Gertrude Stein Award
“Frittura” by Judith Goode

Second Place
“Little Sister” by Jarrett Kaufman

Third Place
“The Angle of Desire” by Jason Harris

Honorable mention
“Next Stop” by Daren Schuettpelz

The Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction is open to submissions of all stories in English no more than 8,000 words. No minimum word count. Stories may be submitted by authors, editors, publishers and agents. Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed. Award-winning manuscripts will be published by Eckleburg. Honorable Mentions will be listed with titles and author names. 

The Editors

Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.