2026
2025
1st Place Winner
Duress by Gary Lippman
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2nd Place Winner
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Christine DeBoer
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3rd Place Winner
Bastard Nation by Eric Conger
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Runners-up
Club Rorschach by Eleanor Horner
Cry of the Geckos by Emir Atac & Jaylon Kurt
Freedom Isle by Lin Anderson
Goodbye Boopie by Sachin Mehta
I Just Am by Raymond McDonald
Kate’s War by Gary Wayne Ress
Let’s Talk Tacheles by Matthew Danciger
Smash and Grab by Charles Huttinger
Study in Crimson by Tim Labor
The Last Trucker by Timothy Doyle
1st Place Winner
Case 1638: Recall by Liana Sive​
​2nd Place Winner
Dry Land by Oscar Rodriguez Gorriz​
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3rd Place Winner
Fearless: The Lost Temple by Jacob Jamieson​
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Runners-up
25 Cases of Canadian Club by David Bernal
Babushka by Christopher A. Pouy
Estranged by James Love
God Said What? by Miriam Racquel Feldman & Dovid Feldman
Kill Kelko by Kieran Angelini
LAced by P.S. Harrow
Prince of Straw by Nathan Allen
Shadow Self by Tom Zimmerman
Spiral by Hannah Garfield
The Mule Deer by Bern Hyland
PAST WINNERS
2024
1st Place Winner
Bland Ambition by Greg Lewis
2nd Place Winner
Byrdie by Lynn Heggen
3rd Place Winner
Pipeline by Larry K. Richardson
Runners-up
After Roswell by Michael Schatz
Blood and Wind by Ben Slease
Capsule by John Ferry
In a Room by J. R. Wicker
Likelihood by Thomas de Herrera
My Secret Friend by Troy W. Suza
Officer X by Michael Joiner
Pains of War and Love by Ted McKenna
Rise From the Ashes by Frank Tumminia
The Light by Phil Krampf
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2022
1st Place Winner
Holly by Jeff Williams
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2nd Place Winner
Save the Night by Aaron Bradley
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3rd Place Winner
Propensity for Violence by Laura Kirk
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Runners-up
2 Milligrams by Gordon James Asti
Comedy Eyes by Jeff Blum & T.C. DeWitt
Complicity by Justine Raczkiewicz & Aleksandra Rychlicka
Death, Ghosts & Other Stuff by Shannon Walsh & Jack Gorman
Glow Stick by Michael Raymond
Great American Highway by Zoey Towner
Inevitable Cruelty by Emma Hicklin
Marathon Bride by Kate McCreary
Plume Raiders by Jeff Zampino
The Reluctant First Gentleman by Curt Samlaska
2023
1st Place Winner
Nightmares From A Past Life by Wallace Wang
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2nd Place Winner
Uncontacted by Jacob Levy
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3rd Place Winner
El Gato by Gil Henry & Gillian Henry
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Runners-up
Bad to Worse by Ralph Waine Hoy
Cotton by Jim Rothman
Fear the Dark by Lewis D. Taylor
Mute(d) by Robert Fernandez-Ferreira
Slaves to the Rhythm by Terry Connell
Time’s Past by Niven Kruidhof
Undue Influence by Antoinette Nalle
Vampires Everywhere by Molly Hale
Vivian by David Woll
Yule Regret This by Lauren Kent
2021
1st Place Winner
Getting Rid of Sid by Amy Tebo
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2nd Place Winner
Follow the Badge by Jayson Crittenden
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3rd Place Winner
Bloop by Jack Robertson
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Runners-up
Folie a Deux by Morgan Pepper
Frozen in Time by Sara Stiffler
Giant Void by Michael Reisinger
Memory #1 by Chris Gilmore
Parallel by Nick Padmore
Parole by Angeles Perez
Saint Catherine’s Boys by John Ravitz
Sally Skull by Kate Niemuller
The Carrier by Todd Restler
Why by Alfred Dunham
2020
1st Place Winner
A Reindeer Story by Jay Michael Jorgensen & Lisa Juslin
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2nd Place Winner
Capsized by Scott Corbett
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3rd Place Winner
Cracked Aces by Jeff Zampino
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Runners-up
A Rising Sun on the River by Trevor Teehan
Darkly by Matthew Rochester
I Knew You First by Becky Fink
Joppatowne Hustle by Michael Mirabella
One Small Step For Neil by Tracie Laymon
Stuck by Faith Wender
The Ascendant by Andrew Carrigan
The Lower Levels by Emma Hicklin
The Monsters of Saint Margaret by Rachel Stevens
Why Goofy Hates Mickey by Rick Helin
2018
1st Place Winner
1000 Beautiful Watts by Angela & Darren Croucher
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2nd Place Winner
Broken Sinclair by Beth Ashby
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3rd Place Winner
The Half Of It by George Caine
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Runners-up
Brainville by Mark Wasserman
Brechin Cross by Ryan M. Andrews
Foreclosed by Alexandra Swenson
Green v. City of New Orleans by Daniel Parino
Human, all too Human by Matthew Harris
Serpentine by David Tittone & David Torre
The Disease by Khalil Sullins
The Killer John Bidwell by Travis Lemke
Welcome to the Movie World by Bryan Bordon
You Are Not My Trigger by Paul Ashton
2016
1st Place Winner
Battle by Aaron Brophy
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2nd Place Winner
60 Minutes to Sunset by Gregory Mulligan
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3rd Place Winner
One Of Us by Michael Kriegsman
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Runners-up
Brutal by Chris Bell
Morty Pappins by Shane Smith
The Clock Maker by Dan Schmidt
The Fall of Byzantium by Nickolaus Swedlund
The Ghost and the Machine by R. Eric Lieb
The Olympians by Ryan A. Herring
The Way Station by Laurie Frankel
Vampira by Kendell Courtney Klein
Vicious Cycle by Richard D. Herrera Jr.
White Buffalo by Jan Kimbrough
2014
1st Place Winner
Elephant in the Room by Tom Morris
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2nd Place Winner
The Magic Kingdom by Michael McQuade
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3rd Place Winner
Gowanus Canal by Cynthia Chatman
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Runners-up
7th Son by William Maurer
Abaddon's Gate by Andrew Stein
Alpha by Christina Pamies
Columbine by Don Zorbbas
Downsizing by J. Brad Wilke
Everyone's a Critic by Carly Woodworth
Genesis Prime by Joe Crouch
Heidegger in Ruins by Jeffrey van Davis
Hell by Parker Briscoe
Warsaw by Kimberly Kaplan
2012
1st Place Winner
Half-Life by Debra Hershkowitz
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2nd Place Winner
All or Nothing At All by Gary Sherwood
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3rd Place Winner
Impending Dom by Chris Molinaro
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Runners-up
Breakdown in Ye-Tsan by Reid Dodson
Cowboy by Alex Mindt & Randall Harvey
Dead End Job by Henry Fosdike
Faye by Matthew Bozin
Heritage by Michael Quintana
Jonnie the Black by Curtis Burdick & Scott Burdick
Lily & Lilac by Jonathan Anderson
Sister Kevin by Mary Rogan
Straight Razor Jazz by David Scott Hay
Vegas Lounge by Robert Tomic
2010
1st Place Winner
Juice by Andrew James Carter
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2nd Place Winner
Second Born by David Jagernauth
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3rd Place Winner
A Novel Approach to Suicide by Brien Kelly
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Runners-up
A History Of Fools by Eric Podell
Come in from the Cold War by Bob Garden
Ladies and Gentlemen, John Wilkes Booth by Dan Barton
Sleeping Beauty by Tony Boland
Staff Development by Jon Bernstein
The Day the Daniels Left by Lydia Fantozzi
The Harrowing by Peter Gamble & Matt Yang King
The Lazarus Group by David Sakmyster
The Pornovsky Brothers by David Bertoni & Richard Halpern
Young Mortals by Michael Mahoney
2008
1st Place Winner
The Terminals by Matt Umbarger
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2nd Place Winner
Child in the Dark by Damian Lahey and Ian Ogden
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3rd Place Winner
Sober Living by Heather Regnier
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Runners-up
360 by Richard Nguyen-Marshall
A Revolution in Urination by Christian Heinze
Carnies by Dean Ward & Matt Ward
Cedarpine Views by Mischa Ayoub
Palmer by Cheryl Guerriero
Soulmates by David Birkenhead
Spring-heeled Jack by David Pardue
The Fahey Men by Jane Holahan
Three Rivers by Brian Loschiavo & Josh Macuga
Willie Francis Must Die Again by Allan Durand
2006
1st Place Winner
Can’t Live With ‘Em by Chris Pentzell
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2nd Place Winner
The Patriot Act by Steven C. Oppenheimer
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3rd Place Winner
Danny LongLegs by Keli Rowley
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Runners-up
Down the Aisle by Jase Ricci
Jekyll & Heidi by Lisa Yoffee
Match This by Anne Wallace
Pencil Men by Grant Janes & Brian Edgar
The American Family by Adam Moore
The Stadium by Zer Gonzales
The Sunshine Blond by Marilyn Mallory
The Uncertainty Principle by Nathan Bransford
The Wizard, the Farmer, and the Very Petty Princess by Daniel Fox
Triage by Shane O'Neill
2004
1st Place Winner
Don Juan by Patrick Andrew O'Connor
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2nd Place Winner
Jack and Jill by Cory Oliver and Clark McCutchen
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3rd Place Winner
Redumption by Robert Gelber
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Runners-up
Better Mouse Trap by Scott Cunningham
Damascus Road by Keith Harris
King of Manhattan by Aaron Mendelsohn
Life Weight by Vey Garofalo and Laura Connors
Lunch Box Hero by Jay Longshore
Slappy Goes To Hollywood by Christopher Pentzell
Tesla by Christopher Bradley
The Doubt Dragon by Jaime Buddle
The Secret of Lummi Island by Jane C. Turville
Toil and Trouble by Dan Saraceni
2002
1st Place Winner
The Trial of Alex Lord by Christopher V. Carlyle
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2nd Place Winner
Standing In by Mark Pearson
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3rd Place Winner
Love at First Sight or Your Love is Kicking My Ass by Sean Buk
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Runners-up
Band O’Thieves by Andrew Knauer
Empty by Harry James Connolly
Let’s Mow by Joe Wilson
Negative Capability by James Macdonald & Karen Rizzo
Officer Down by Theresa Schwegal
Sucker Punched by Scott Morgan
The Intruder by Barbara Curry
The Tutor by Barbara Kymlicka
Watusimba by Rob Sandoval & Rita Sandoval
You Suck by Caroline Williams
2000
1st Place Winner
Tell Me A Movie by Robert Weinberger
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2nd Place Winner
A Little Left of Center Field by Rick Livingston
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3rd Place Winner
Third Class Cry by Sang Kyu Kim
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Runners-up
Showstopper by Teena Booth
One Nation by Patrice Williams
Out of the Corner by Bill Knuth
Rex by Thomas Garvey
Push by Kendra LeFleur
Fine by Brian Peter Falk
The Last Real Man by Leslie Lendeman
The Inbetweener by Michael D. Robinson II
The Last Train by Jane Ilsa Wells and Ian W. Ginsburg
Social Insecurity by Steve Wisniewski
2019
1st Place Winner
Boy Most Wanted by Tuck Tucker
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2nd Place Winner
Jumping into Hemmingway’s Pool by Nick Roberts
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3rd Place Winner
The Girl Who Collected Sound by Steven Benedict
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Runners-up
_Saved by Matthrw Millard & Sierra Phelps
Ann Hopkins by Eleanor Morrison
Everything Is Right Until It’s Wrong by Angela Bourassa
Pray for Death by Bob DeMars
Restoration by Don Stroud & Winter Mead
Secrets of the South by Waltre Richardson & Kathy Berardi
Starring…John Dillinger by Bill Walker & Brian Anthony
Treature Hunt by Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye
Walt by Robert Troccolo
Ziggy and Rachel by Michael Rispoli & Gregg Greenberg
2017
1st Place Winner
The God Machine by Michael Bowler
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2nd Place Winner
The Regulars by Devon Colwell
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3rd Place Winner
Spirit Lake by Alison Macinnis
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Runners-up
Broken Chain by Jonathan Clancy
Jackalope by Steven Lankenau
LP by Zachary Taylor
Mummy’s Boy by Stewart McDonald
My Son Sam by Michael Droberg
Shooting Manson by Ron Pivo & Kevin Courtney
The Henry Manor Incident by Denise Williams
The Mary Jane Girls by Heidi Kozak
The Renovator’s Dream by Richard Vilensky
Universal Monster by Constantine
2015
1st Place Winner
Diary of a Jesuit by Arthur Fishel
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2nd Place Winner
The Base by Shane McCabe
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3rd Place Winner
Half-Breed by Leslie Farrell
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Runners-up
Birdwatching Naked by Tom Batt
High Office by Jason Kessler
Living the Good Death by Scott Baron
Six X Six by Doug Lynch
The Day I Turned Gay by Alexandra Allred
The Flid Show by Richard Willett
The Flight of the Wasp by Andrea Brusa
The Memory Palace by Justine Gunn
The Secret Lover by John James Hickey
The Secret of Ebbets Field by Richard Seidman
2013
1st Place Winner
Goat by Jordan Rane
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2nd Place Winner
Capitol Offense by Bennett Rea
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3rd Place Winner
Pacoima by Kate Douglas
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Runners-up
Banking on Betty by Geno Scala
Dragon Tail by Keith Hendrick
Family Gatherings by Bridget Gibson
Grave-Keeper by Richard Herrera
Land of Bones by Peter Floro
No Way Out by Andrew Mescher
Not For Sale by Sarelyn Radecke
The Taloquan Network by Robert Hestand
The White Shaman by Sean McConville
Where The Men Are by Wendy Wilkins
2011
1st Place Winner
The Floating of Hayes by John Woodard
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2nd Place Winner
The Fantastically Adventurous Adventures by Mike Jones
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3rd Place Winner
The Druggist by Ted Adams
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Runners-up
Dali by Lorraine Mauvais
Father Patrick by Brian Pargac
High School Newspaper Wars by Jesse Dykstra
Max by Samantha Husik
Old Hag Syndrome by Tim Dankanich
Sumeria by Roy Cho & Biju Parekkadan
The Dark Reaches by Peter Fedorenko
The Quest for the Last Tree by Dave Seropian
Unmaking Love by Evan Laughlin
Will Success Spoil Mrs. MIller? by Matthew Fantaci
2009
1st Place Winner
Madam I'm Adam by John Todd
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2nd Place Winner
Lords of Splendor by John Griffin
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3rd Place Winner
Keeping Up With the Joneses by Greg Lee & Grant Calof
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Runners-up
Amazing by Todd Maidy
Diary of a Doorman by Dan Beckerman & Maren Sanders
Flaunt by Kevin Jones
Haunted by Daniel Abts
Hollywood & Vyin' by D. Scott Adams
Lucy in London by Tracy Ryan
Rebel: Son of Zed by Andrea Hayhurst
Superpants by Atif Shaikh
The Board by Mark Weiner
The Hacketts by John Andreini
2007
1st Place Winner
Whale Farts by Brian Price & Samuel W. Gailey
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2nd Place Winner
Code Name Veil by Matt Billingsly
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3rd Place Winner
Emily’s Numbers by Paul Chepikian
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Runners-up
L. A. Coincidental by Mike Mason
Love and Other Natural Disasters by Stephen Garvey
The Life of Mary Shelley by Deborah Baxtrom
Once Upon This Playground by Anne Kruse
Outrage by Stephen Garvey
Pink Pages by James Henderson
Playing Dead by Dick Belsky
The Buddy Grim Show by Scott Webster
The Housekeeper by Pamelja Ferderbar
The Wrinkleman by Bryan Hilson
2005
1st Place Winner
Limping Jokers by Rawle Brown
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2nd Place Winner
Son of a Gun by M.J. Anderson & Richard Rossner
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3rd Place Winner
Blood Diamonds by Margaret Dunlap
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Runners-up
Black Mountain by Pezhman Jatala
Closer to Fine by Erin Engman
Go Ahead, Back Up by Sarah Skibinski
Panic Attack by Colin Perry
Playing Our Song by Andrea Perine
Santa Technologies by Tim Christian and Jeff Beals
The Curse of Old Bob by Anthony Stitt and Jeff Trently
The Family Partnership by Clark McCutchen
The Unkindness of Ravens by Allen Glover
Thunder in the West by Scott Grant
2003
1st Place Winner
Reckless Endangerment by Howard Skora
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2nd Place Winner
The Conspiracy by Robert C. Fleet
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3rd Place Winner
Dining with Dinah by Theresa Shaw
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Runners-up
Billy Bones by Jen Miller and Sophie Pegrum
Death Takes A Vacation by Gil Christner
Racing To The Altar by Dianna Ippolito
Snoop by Brett Cooper
Jungleland by Robert Martorana
The Lesser Evil by Glen Samuel
The Last Living Nephilim by Clayton Wold
Countenance by Neil H. Abramson
The Gunships of Orion by Ross Morfeld
Mr. J by Ruth Campbell
2001
1st Place Winner
Ted Inc. by Rett Thompson
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2nd Place Winner
Swing Vote by Mike Cunningham
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3rd Place Winner
Bogey Size It by Patti Wall
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Runners-up
I’m A Bereaver by Kenneth Wajda
The Kane Project by Daniel Tester
Pulp Chicken by Michael Gibson
Cloning Ms. Stone by Lou Wollin
The Ides of April by John Erick Dowdle
Egghead by RJ Anderson
Rumors of Peace by Irina Diether
Judy & Jackie Are Going To Hell by Alan Dryburgh & Jennifer MacFarlane
Distribution by David Guest
Lance Barnes, Post Nuke Dick by Stefan Petrucha
1999
1st Place Winner
Soul To Keep by Sean McElhiney
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2nd Place Winner
Falling Over Venus by Andrea Bailey
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3rd Place Winner
Cruel Logic by Brian Godawa
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