2020 Calvino Prize Winners

2020 Calvino Prize Winner:

Leanne Ogasawara, “Bare Bones”

Leanne Ogasawara has worked as a translator from Japanese for over twenty years. Her translation work has included academic translation, poetry, philosophy, and documentary film. Her creative writing has appeared in the Kyoto Journal, River Teeth/Beautiful Things, Hedgehog Review, Entropy, the Dublin Review of Books, the Pasadena Star newspaper— and forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine and Gulf Coast Journal. She also has a monthly column at the science and arts blog 3 Quarks Daily: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/author/leanneogasawara

Runner-up:

"I Cannot Help You With This" by Timothy DeLizza

"The Drowned Town" by Josie Sigler

Finalists:

"Bello Pichichero, The Art of Photography, No. 84" by Neal Giannone

"flyBaby" by Chad Gusler

"Cities of the Antediluvian World" by Peter Hankins

"The Band Plays Yellow When I Feel Like Red" by Tiffany Osedra Miller

"Instructions for Dreaming" by Sean W. Murphy

"KEITH, or: The Last Man on Earth" by Adam Peterson

"Placebo" by Zachary Vickers”