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Writing Contest Winners

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2023

Poetry

First Prize, “six of five” by Jules Holzbauer

Second Prize, “Mourning Coffee” by Jay Newfield

Short Story

First Prize, “The River Keeps Healing” by Evelyn Larson

Second Prize, “The Butterfly Dancer” by Zander Majors


2022

Poetry

First Place: "Cottonwood" by Sophia Alvarez

Second Place: "I close my eyes and dream" by Markeesha Dean

Short Story

First Place: "Ephemeral Lilies" by Evelyn Larson
Second Place: "Nightmare" by Alexa Falleur


2021

Poetry

First Place: "Domestic Violence" by Jessica Walter

Short Story

First Place: "Your Door was Open" by Sam Cooper

 

2019

Poetry

First Place: "The Creek" by Paighton Johnson
Second Place: "Blue" by Anna Graves

Short Story

First Place: "The Fight Within" by Anna Graves
Second Place: "Personal Narrative" by Taylor Sturtevant

 

2018

Poetry

First Place: "A Disturbing Contribution" by Martin Wind
Second Place: "My Journey as Hawk" by Colleen Cooper

Short Story

First Place: "The Beginning" by Amanda Bueno

 

2017

Poetry

First Place: "Trouble They Say" by Dawn Martin-Young
Second Place: "The Only Boy in New York" by Laura Grace Grafham Knapp

Short Story

First Place: "1985" by Erik Dewey
Second Place: "Home is Where the Heart is" by Caitlin Campbell

 

2016

Poetry

First Place: "Western Wisdom" by Hannah McCage
Second Place: "The Defeatist" by Jamie Kirby

Short Story

First Place: "Lord Avalon's Book" by Tara Rittler
Second Place: "The Death of a Gun" by Raymond P. Akin III

 

2015

Poetry

First Place: "The Snowbird" by Yan Xu
Second Place: "Holiday Card" by Tamara Keane
Third Place: "For T and Her Mother" by Hanna Al-Jibouri

Short Story

First Place: "Simulacra and Manifestation" - John Dixon
Second Place: "Lost" by Lacey Haynie
Third Place: "The Ancients" by Jason Hart

 

2014

Poetry

First Place: “1x1 Lego” by Ambra King
Second Place: “No Home” by Hanna Al-Jibouri
Third Place: “Dear Future Self” by Daniel Dunlap

Short Story

First Place: “A Fair” by Matthew Pascucci
Second Place: “The Sun is Gone/But I Have a Light” by John Gabriel
Third Place: “A Plate of Eggs” by Cynthia DePalma

 

2013

Poetry

First Place –“Echoes” by Janie Schatz
Second Place –“Life Without End” by Yvette Wiley
Third Place – “Moments” by Alexandria Trahan

Short Story

First Place – “Christmas Morning” by Sabrina Hall
Second Place – “But You Don’t See Me” by Alysha Glasser
Third Place – “Elise” by Phoenix Williams

 

2012

Poetry

First Place – "Untitled" by Dionne White
Second Place – "Technology: A Puppeteer" by Tabitha Fleming

Short Story

First Place – "The Mary Purse" by Marian McCarthy
Second Place – "An Ordinary Day" by Cliff A. Aldridge

 

2011

Poetry

First Place – "November" by Kim Meigs
Second Place – "108 S-t-i-t-c-h-e-s" by Willard Jacob Cornwell

Short Story

First Place – "The Bet's to You" by Aaron Kyle Jarman
Second Place – "Las Tres Maldiciones de Rick Castillo" by Joey DeLeon

 

2010

Poetry

First Place – "Dashes to Dashes, Rust to Rust" by Willard Jacob Cornwell
Second Place – "Goddess" by Confidence Omenai
Third Place – "Small-town Fair" by Chad Little

Short Story

First Place – "Mystique" by JL Greer
Second Place – "Jack the Dreamwalker" by Jonathan Beck

 

2009

Poetry

First Place – "Sanctuary" by Colleen Reyes
Second Place – "Blue S(k)in" by Sterling Ellsworth

Short Story

First Place – "To Forget" by Chantal Walker
Second Place – "Children Don't Get Headaches" by Rebecca Emmons


2008

Undergraduate Poetry

First Place – “Red Wing Blackbird” by Marie Peterson
Second Place – “Weathered Beauty” by Jana Bendinelli

Undergraduate Short Story

First Place – “Tainted Blood” by Stephanie White
Second Place – “Cherry Pie” by Charles Joseph Rodriguez

Graduate Poetry

First Place – “I Am From . . .” by Lori E. Weatherholtz

 

2007

Undergraduate Poetry

First Place:  “I’m a Fat Girl” by Tanisha Alexander
Second Place:  “Coyote” by Michael Champlin

Undergraduate Short Story

First Place: “Spirits in the Dark” by Stephanie White
Second Place:  “The Cow” by Charles Rodriguez

Graduate Short Story

First Place:  “Talla the Dog” by Brian Cross
Second Place:  “Drunk Indun” by Trygve Jorgensen

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