The Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction

Ploughshares is pleased to present Ramona Ausubel with the seventh annual Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction for her short story “Perfect Numbers,” which appeared in the Summer 2024 issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai. The $2,500 prize, sponsored by longtime patron Hunter C. Bourne III and selected by our editors, honors a short story published in the journal…