With great pleasure, we announce that final judge Jim Shepard has selected Edward Hamlin’s “Night in Erg Chebba” as the winner of the 2013 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. His story will appear in the Fall/Winter 2013 issue of Colorado Review,  forthcoming in November.

Edward Hamlin is a Colorado-based writer whose work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, In Digest, New Dog, and Cobalt, and has been produced theatrically in Chicago and Denver. He has recently completed a novel, Sleeping with Her, that explores dream life and the unconscious in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.