Doomscroll Finalists

by Rebecca Paredes
Doomscroll winners

Editor’s Note

How does it feel to use a product that uses you back? Our Doomscroll challenge called for prose and poetry about living with social media, algorithms, and digital footprints. We’re pleased to announce our finalists, whose work spans a satirical essay on virality, a meditative poem about masculinity and online dating, and a flash fiction piece about grief in the digital age. We will publish their work online at the end of September!

First place

“For You” by Jack Fisher

Second place

“the blue hour” by Hero Jason Uchebenu

Third place

Salt” by Paley Dreier

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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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