The most recent issue of Copper Nickel features the winners of their 2012 contests. Fiction was selected by Kevin Wilson, and Paisley Rekdal judged poetry.
Fiction
First Place
Anne Valente: "Dear Amelia"
Special Mention
Sarah Gerkensmeyer: "My Husband's House"
Adam Sturtevant: "The Pretenders"
Finalists
Shabnam Nadiya: "And We Rise How We Rise"
Leslie Rakowicz: "Celia"
Poetry
First Place
Tarfia Faizullah: "Reading Célan at the Liberation War Museum"
Honorable Mention
David J. Daniel: "Danny Starr: A Lament"
Finalists
Maud Poole
George Kalamaras
Anna Claire Hodge
Ansel Elkins
Kristin Robertson
John Hoppenthaler
