The winner of the inaugural 2025 Forsberg Prize for Fiction was selected by the editors of Avalon Park Press:

Future Perfect by Matthew James Babcock

Thank you to all that submitted their work for this year’s prize.

Submissions

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“Coming of age story,

Since the age of thirteen,

A cycle of creativity has caucused

In my pussy and then, unsown,

Transforms into new energy,

From potential to kinetic,

From chemical to mechanical,

Reputed to reality,

From magic to red blood.”