Fall Issue, Volume 43
David Friedman 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 Nia Tipton for her story, “Bones of Before,” the 2021 winner of the David Friedman Award.
Aurora Hattendorf
Our Little Secret
Zoe Elerby
Rainna Rosa Venniquin
Andie Eiram
How to Walk Away from Someone You Think You’d Die Without
Nick Warrington
The Icicle
Emma Dailey Mitchell
Uncle Jack
Maria Kowal
Father
Gregory Kucera
Party of One
Danielle Hirschhorn
Wore Me Out
Asher Witkin
A Strange Sort of Company
Deanna Whitlow
The Graceless Haze
Alison Brackett
Pushing Daises
Kendra Y. Mims-Applewhite
What Comes After
Victoria Barney
The Last Shift
Alexis Berry
As Daughters, We Learn