Call for entries for our 2012 Short Story Contest has now opened. To find out all the details and submit your writings CLICK HERE.

Country Roads magazine's annual Regional Writings issue, published every June, features the winners of our annual Short Story contest and Readers' Choice award.

To be eligible for the 2011 contest, stories had to be original, unpublished works of fiction, and fewer than 2,500 words long. More than one hundred entries came in, and we shared these with our judges who were charged with identifying the top three stories. They also selected eight runners-up for our Readers’ Choice contest which took place in April on our website. By early May, the dust had settled and we had our top four stories. We are deeply grateful to the judges—Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, Nolde Alexius, Emily Toth, and J. Lanier Yeates—for their time and effort, to everyone who shared a piece of work with us, and to all those who voted online for the Reader’s Choice award. Thank you all for being part of Country Roads.

The winners of the 2011 contest:

"Empire Satsumas" by Sam Irwin	"Assisted Living" by Ava Barrett	"Full Many a Flower" by Robert Clanton	"They Didn't Have a Chance" by Margaret Schlaudecker

Stories published in years past can be found below...