The Wordstock 10 Finalists from the 2012 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition by Wordstock

Wordstock, a literary art and education organization based in Portland, Oregon, began this annual competition in 2007 to celebrate the outpouring of extraordinary contemporary short fiction written around the world. To date, the contest has received entries from every US state, as well as, Mexico, Canada, England, Ireland, France, Denmark, Brazil, Australia, Nepal, and Puerto Rico.