Literary works by seventy-three authors finalists of the Adelaide Literary Awards Contest for 2017 in three categories - best poem, the best short story, and the best essay. Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international bimonthly publication, based in New York and Lisbon. Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine's aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews, articles, and book reviews, written in English and Portuguese. We seek to publish outstanding literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and to promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience. We publish print and digital editions of our magazine six times a year, in September, November, January, March, May, and July. The online edition is updated continuously. There are no charges for reading the magazine online. (http: //adelaidemagazine.org)