I won the 2025 Narrative Prize for my story "Honey Buns and Cream Soda in the Stairwell"! ✨💙✨ www.narrativemagazine.com/winner-2025-...

—excerpt from “Honey Buns and Cream Soda in the Stairwell” by A. T. Steel (@oldxanadu.bsky.social)

We are over the moon to share this year’s Narrative–Prize winning story, A. T. Steel’s “Honey Buns and Cream Soda in the Stairwell”:

Steel was born in New York City and raised in Bronx homeless shelters, Harlem ghettos, and Brooklyn Brownsville projects.

Join us in celebrating A. T. Steel and his winning work, “Honey Buns and Cream Soda in the Stairwell”!

@oldxanadu.bsky.social

WIP urban, LGBTQ coming-of-age short literary fiction story from a series of stories that I plan to continue publishing in various lit mags. #Wipsnips #comingofage Snippet immediately following a beating by a group of homophobic boys:

This is why I keep a notebook and pen by the bed. 😖

A snippet from my short story WIP "Mixed Berry Pie", told from the POV of destitute trans teenage foundling Jasmine Milan in Harlem in the spring of 1992. 🤞🏽 here's to hoping I can finally crack the top 5 lit mag barrier with this one! #WIPSnips

community in the early 90s in the latest issue of Foglifter Journal. #lgbtq #fiction #writingcommunity

during the Summer of 1991 from a hopeful start to a careless assault, and the fallout of her unhealthy and self-destructive coping mechanisms. CATCH IT ON THE MAIN PAGE OF NARRATIVE MAG FOR THE NEXT WEEK! ✨😌✨ #amwriting #lgbtq #urbanfiction #writingcommunity

www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stori... Honey Buns and Cream Soda in the Stairwell by A. T. Steel

during the Summer of 1991 from a hopeful start to a careless assault, and the fallout of her unhealthy and self-destructive coping mechanisms. CATCH IT ON THE MAIN PAGE OF NARRATIVE MAG FOR THE NEXT WEEK! ✨😌✨ #amwriting #lgbtq #urbanfiction #writingcommunity

Thanks so much for giving this story a beautiful home!!! ✨💕✨😁