Spring, 2020

David Friedman Memorial Award

The David Friedman Award offers a cash prize to the best story or essay published in Hair Trigger each year. Our thanks go to David Friedman’s family, who established this fund in fall 2002 as a memorial to their son, a talented writer and painter, as well as an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago and a great friend to the English & Creative Writing Department—Fiction Program’s students and faculty.

Congratulations to Sophia Okugawa-Stoller for her story, “The Quarry,” the 2020 winner of the David Friedman Award.

Student Anthology

Sophia Okugawa-Stoller

The Quarry

Aliza Rizvi

Smell Syndrome

Allison Darhun

Unsteady

Shaniece Rattler

Little Thing

Brooklyn Kiosow

Peanuts and Palm Trees

Darcy Dillon

Kited

Bianca Rodriguez

Summer Fruit Sunsets

Kelsey Esotque

Come Away to the Water

Grace Smithwick

Twenty-Six

Diana Chrisman

Laundry Series