We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2021 Literary Awards!

Poetry – torrin a. greathouse, for “On Possession,” “fT4T,” and “As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I Am Beginning to Fall in Love With”

Creative Nonfiction - Laura Haugen, for “Song for the Missing”

Fiction  - Tom Howard, for “The Long Shadows”

The winning works will appear in our Fall/Winter 2021-22 edition, due out in December 2021.

View our complete list of winners and honorable mentions

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