“Bird Lives, Jazz Lives,” on the life of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix, Dan Jaffe 

“How to Steal an Imaginary Friend,” on the poetry of Carolyne Wright, Katie Manning 

“Appalachian Song Cycle,” on the fiction of Susan Tekulve, Catherine Browder 

“The Different Faces of Love,” on the poetry of Marilyn Kallet, Maria James-Thiaw 

“All the Hard, Broken Things,”on the short stories of Aurelie Sheehan, Jacqueline Kolosov