Writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson famously said that nobody but a blockhead ever wrote for anything except free entry to the annual AWP Conference. Or something like that. We couldn’t agree more if we were a Scottish biographer.

We are delighted to be able to announce that of all the amazing, dazzling, and gripping entries in our Snap Contest for flash pieces, author Libby Cudmore takes first place with her story “How to Murder Your Friends.” Libby wins free registration for all four days of the AWP Conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs, for folks scoring at home) in April 2015, to be held in Minneapolis. In addition, her story garners publication in The Stoneslide Corrective. Go read this excellent piece of flash fiction.

Libby’s stories and essays have appeared in recent issues of The Big Click, Big Lucks, Chamber Four, the Vestal Review, Pank, and The New Rivers Press American Fiction Anthology #13. Her short story “The Redemption of Oren Barry” received an honorable mention in the Stoneslide Story Contest and her debut novel is forthcoming from William Morrow in Winter 2016.