The Believer Magazine
Fitzgerald Contest Winner and Runners-Up
During F. Scott Fitzgerald’s time at Princeton, he began keeping a notebook of musings, sketches, snippets of conversation, descriptions of girls, and story ideas for future use, all meticulously cataloged. Time ran out before he was able to realize many of those ideas. McSweeney’s Issue 22 showcased the efforts of writers such as Sam Lipsyte, Judy Budnitz, Salvador Plascencia, and Diane Williams to fulfill some of Fitzgerald’s premises.
We decided to run a contest to see what you all could do with the remaining prompts. Below are the winning entries.
-
February 7, 2007Fitzgerald Contest Winner and Runners-Up: Marionettes During Dinner Party Meeting and Kissing
-
February 7, 2007Fitzgerald Contest Winner and Runners-Up: High Branch
-
February 7, 2007Fitzgerald Contest Winner and Runners-Up: Confessions of Andrew Fulton, Turfgrass Emperor, Broadway Star, and Toast of New York’s Avant-Garde Art Scene; or, Come Home, Kitty 2! Come Home!
-
February 7, 2007Fitzgerald Contest Winner and Runners-Up: I Can Run Like the Wind
Trending 🔥
-
February 10, 2025Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
-
February 13, 2025Finally, My Tax Dollars Are Being Used to Uncover Publicly Available Government Information
-
February 5, 2025Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse
-
February 4, 2025An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University
Recently
-
February 21, 2025Don’t Tread on Me—Unless You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Addiction, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Support It
-
February 21, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: Finding Win Ng
-
February 21, 2025Why I Chose to Reenter the Matrix and Be a Living Battery for the Machines
-
February 20, 2025Take Him Seriously, Not Literally