Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction
Ploughshares is pleased to present Barbara Lock with the fifteenth annual Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction for her story “Keep You Safe,” which appeared in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Victor LaValle. The $2,500 prize, sponsored by acclaimed writer, guest editor, longtime patron, and member of the Ploughshares advisory board Alice Hoffman, honors a short story published in…