OSU-Tulsa Creative Writing Contest Past Winners
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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
SHORT STORY
First Place – "The Mary Purse" by Marian McCarthy
Second Place – "An Ordinary Day" by Cliff A. Aldridge
POETRY
First Place – "Untitled" by Dionne White
Second Place – "Technology: A Puppeteer" by Tabitha Fleming
2011
SHORT STORY
First Place – "The Bet's to You" by Aaron Kyle Jarman
Second Place – "Las Tres Maldiciones de Rick Castillo" by Joey DeLeon
POETRY
First Place – "November" by Kim Meigs
Second Place – "108 S-t-i-t-c-h-e-s" by Willard Jacob Cornwell
2010
SHORT STORY
First Place – "Mystique" by JL Greer
Second Place – "Jack the Dreamwalker" by Jonathan Beck
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
2009
SHORT STORY
First Place – "To Forget" by Chantal Walker
Second Place – "Children Don't Get Headaches" by Rebecca Emmons
POETRY
First Place – "Sanctuary" by Colleen Reyes
Second Place – "Blue S(k)in" by Sterling Ellsworth
2008
UNDERGRADUATE SHORT STORY
First Place – “Tainted Blood” by Stephanie White
Second Place – “Cherry Pie” by Charles Joseph Rodriguez
UNDERGRADUATE POETRY
First Place – “Red Wing Blackbird” by Marie Peterson
Second Place – “Weathered Beauty” by Jana Bendinelli
GRADUATE POETRY
First Place – “I Am From . . .” by Lori E. Weatherholtz
2007
UNDERGRADUATE SHORT STORY
First Place: “Spirits in the Dark” by Stephanie White
Second Place: “The Cow” by Charles Rodriguez
UNDERGRADUATE POETRY
First Place: “I’m a Fat Girl” by Tanisha Alexander
Second Place: “Coyote” by Michael Champlin
GRADUATE SHORT STORY
First Place: “Talla the Dog” by Brian Cross
Second Place: “Drunk Indun” by Trygve Jorgensen