selected for publication by Debra Marquart sponsored by I-Regen at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Introduction by Guest Judge Debra Marquart This meticulously-researched piece of reportage begins by sounding an ominous bell about the state of the northern farm- and ranch-lands west of the Missouri River as the planet heads into fluctuations of climate that will […]
Poetry Winner: Rose Zinnia, “Constituting Mayhem (Derealized in the CVS),” “Look (Nonbinary,” “God Wifi Earth Ogn (Nonbinary),” and “ancient Wind, Empty Skyscraper, Golden Bear (Nonbinary)” Honorable Mentions: Rennie Ament, “In America” and Heather Lang-Cassera, “Upon Knowing Swan Song as Myth” Creative Nonfiction Winner: Jodie Noel Vinson, “Self-Portrait after COVID-19” Fiction Winner: Carly Rae Zent, “The […]
Winner Jeanette Lynes, “1979” Honorable Mention: Jacques Rancourt, “Crossed Signals” Finalists: Joshua Garcia, “Self-Portrait as Three Archetypal Media Images;” torrin a. greathouse, “Bondage Device: Cross;” and Brett Hanley, “Bondage Device: Meat Hoist” Special thanks to Tim Dean and Corey Van Landingham. […]
Poetry Winner: torrin a. greathouse, “On Possession,” “T4T,” and “As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With” Honorable Mentions: Taylor Byas, “Shutter” and “When I Say No, The Joker Smiles” Creative Nonfiction Winner: Laura Haugen, “Song for the Missing” Honorable […]
Poetry Winner: Danielle Williams, “A Walk on June 19,” “fa’ñague /fuh-nyah-ghee/,” and “Gospel” Honorable Mentions: Cate Lycurgus, “Better & Worse,” “[I cannot bear],” and “Some Days;” and Patrick Wilcox, “What We Talk About,” “North Bay Village,” “What We Once Knew,” “Cellar Door,” and “One Last Odd Song” Creative Nonfiction Winner: Anna Winham, “my mother // […]
Poetry Winner: John Sibley Williams, “Dark Tourist” and “The Drowning House” Honorable Mentions: Shawn Fawson, “Spring;” and Jared Harel, “Final Kindness” Creative Nonfiction Winner: Maddie Norris, “Still Hearts” Honorable Mentions: Rhianna Brandt, “Bottle, Beloved, and Book;” Michael William Palmer, “The Archivists;” and Courtney Kersten, “The Ergonomics of Loss” Fiction Winner: Stephanie Wong Ken, “Beating Heart” […]
Poetry Winner: Zachary Hester, “Variations on a Theme by Oppenheimer,” “Coda Atop Wells-Fargo,” “Over the Bronze Mountain Lion in Boulder, CO,” and “Priscilla Huggable Atomic Mushroom” Honorable Mentions: Garrett Sanford, “O. unilateralis” and Teresa Dzieglewicz, “By the Numbers: 1” Creative Nonfiction Ashley Farmer, “Animal Hours” Honorable Mention: Catina Bacote, “Up North” Fiction Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson, […]
Poetry Winner: Erin Rodoni, “Lullaby with Fireflies and Rising Seas” Honorable Mention: Shawn Fawson, “Cloudlands” Fiction Winner: Cady Vishniac, “Drill” Honorable Mentions: Micah Dean Hicks, “Missing in the City of the Wind” and Gwen Cullen, “The Little Sisters of the Dissent” Creative Nonfiction Winner: Ellyn Gaydos, “Summer of Love” Honorable Mention: Nina Yun, “Half Speak” […]
Poetry Winner: Brandon Rushton, “Incident Ending in the Dissolution of a Time Traveler,” “Exploration of the Self as Separate Species,” “Totalitarian Methods of the New Trapeze Tutor,” “Portrait of the Body Post-Hibernation,” and “Meditations on Municipal Revenge” Honorable Mentions: Jim Whiteside, Anne Champion Fiction Winner: Megan Cummins, “The Beast” Creative Nonfiction Winner: Anna Leahy, “Marrying […]
Poetry Winner: Corey Van Landingham, “In the Year of No Sleep” Honorable Mentions: Rachael E. Katz, “All About Flash” and Monica Sok, “Here Is Your Name” Fiction Winner: Kristen N. Arnett, “See Also: A History of Glassmaking” Honorable Mention: Zach Vandezande, “Status Updates” Creative Nonfiction Winner: Michael Gracey, “My Own Good Daemon” Honorable Mention: Julie […]
