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2018 Winner Fiction: Severance by Ling Ma
Finalists: Halsey Street by Naima Coster Florida by Lauren Groff Mourning by Eduardo Halfon Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
2018 Winner Fiction: Severance by Ling Ma
Finalists:
Halsey Street by Naima Coster
Florida by Lauren Groff
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams