Omnidawn

Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize Winner
Selected by Jeff VanderMeer

James Robert Herndon (Atlanta, Georgia)
for
Mammals

A unique tale of love, commitment and redemption. In "Mammals," an orphaned teenager sent to juvenile detention because of a violent crime becomes part of an odd experiment to see if he can learn about compassion and also teach it to another living creature.  The story displays sensitivity without sentimentality and a sense of the strange that is grounded in very real emotions.  A thoughtful and unusual gem. --Jeff VanderMeer
 
 
james herndon

James Robert Herndon lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. His fiction has appeared in Halfway Down the Stairs and is forthcoming in an anthology of stories by Clarion West Graduates. When not writing, he enjoys woodworking and being outside with his wife.
 

The five finalists selected by Jeff VanderMeer   
(in alphabetical order by last name):
 
Ben Black (Santa Clara, California) 
for Members of the Board and Other Stories 
 
Marie Brennan (San Mateo, California) 
for La Molejera 
 
Liz Gilbert (Kansas City, Missouri) 
for Jesse in Common 
 
Katharine Haake (Los Angeles, California) 
for Assumptions We Might Make About the World 
 
 Ingrid Silverstein (Sharon, Massachusetts) 
for The Suicide Artist  

Omnidawn Staff: 

Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan, senior editors & publishers 

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Turner Canty, poetry editor

Liza Flum, poetry editor

Sharon Osmond, poetry editor & bookstore outreach

Juliana Paslay, fiction editor & bookstore outreach manager 

Gail Aronson, fiction editor

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