Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Hummingbird Prize

Every year, as the days stretch and the buds bloom, the Hummingbirds arrive to spring us into summer. And this year’s entries were a whirring and stirring bunch! Congratulations to Cadence Mandybura, whose beautiful stories claimed the top two spots, and to Laura Kuhlman, whose moving words had a power all their own.

First Place: ‘The Weeping Pools’ by Cadence Mandybura

First Runner-Up: ‘River’s Thousand-One Voice’ by Cadence Mandybura

Second Runner-Up: ‘Glimpse of a Goddess’ by Laura Kuhlmann

Judge Bob Thurber had this to say about the winners: The clarity, strength, and serenity of ‘The Weeping Pools’, with its restrained composition, nudged it forward, just ahead of ‘River’s Thousand-One Voice’, which I enjoyed very much for its lovely voice. Also, and not least, the very concise ‘Glimpse of a Goddess’ has considerable merit. Congratulations to all the finalists. 

The winning entries will be published in Pulp Literature Issue 29, Winter 2021. Congratulations to all of the shortlisted authors:

Andrew Moore for ‘Ye Fair in the Wood’
Andrew Moore for ‘In as a Lion, Out as a Lamb’
Cadence Mandybura for ‘The Weeping Pools’
Cadence Mandybura for ‘River’s Thousand-One Voice’
Candace Kubinec for ‘Revenant’
Hannah van Didden for ‘The wife’
Jade Williams for ‘Dying to Travel’
Laura Kuhlmann for ‘Glimpse of a Goddess’
Soramimi Hanarejima for ‘Attention Management’
Steven Simoncic for ‘You Will Do This’

Thank you to all submitting authors for sharing your words and supporting Pulp Literature. And, as always, our thanks to judge — and master of flash — Bob Thurber for his keen and discerning eye!