Cost of Living Finalists

by Rebecca Paredes
Receipts with sparkles on either side for Cost of Living writing contest

Editor’s Note

How do you live within your means when the means just aren’t there? For our Cost of Living challenge, we sought prose and poetry about money, need, and affording to live. We’re excited to announce our finalists, who took inventive and thought-provoking angles on this challenge theme. Their work spans poetry and experimental fiction, and we’re thrilled to publish these pieces at the end of August!

First place

“Money Trees” by Marnetta Singleton

Second place

“Hushes and Hums in Texas” by Zenobia

Third place

In Situ” by Jessica Hincapié

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Rebecca Paredes

Rebecca Paredes is the Editor-in-Chief of Glossy Planet. She is a writer from Lake Elsinore, California, where the IHOP is located next to the graveyard, and an alumna of PEN America’s Emerging Voices Workshop LA. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Barren Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review, and other publications. She is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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