Ninth Letter Literary Award Winners
Laura Haugen – Song for the Missing (creative nonfiction)
torrin a. greathouse – On Possession; T4T; As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I Am Beginning to Fall in Love With (poetry)
Tom Howard – The Long Shadows (fiction)
Fiction
Mariah Stovall – Epinephrine
Gerardo Sámano Córdova – Fluffschatten
Matthew Richardson – Eating It Up, Asking for More
Devon Capizzi – Swimming
Josh Bell – Pigs Love Witches
Creative Nonfiction
Emily James – Other Women
Karen Maner – Social Constipation
Christine Hume and Laura Larson – All the Women I Know
Jacqueline Knirnschild – Clout
Chad Davidson – Argon
Poetry
Jihyun Yun – Prognosis as Double Exposed Film
Lauren Green – Nox
Lynn Domina – To See Again the Stars
Matthew Fioti – Knots Landing (1979-1993)
Claire Wahmanholm – In a Land Where Everything Is Trying to Kill Me, I Consider Letting It
Emily Ho – Pia Mater
Kevin Latimer – SAME BLOOD, UNDER SPOTLIGHT
K.A. Hays – Lines written in the Walmart Supercenter parking lot, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Adam Clay – Where Paradise Lay
Christopher DeWeese – Dead Reckoning
Lizzy Peterson – Bess Utley Explains Why We Don’t Remember Much
Nancy Reddy – The End of Limbo
Madi Giovina – Ruminate
Clancy Tripp – It’s Summer and He’s Hosting a Bootleg Breakup Picnic in the Park
Zoë Fay-Stindt – Sharing the Table
janan alexandra – requiem for the blue-headed morning
William Fargason – While Playing World of Warcraft, I Can’t Stop Thinking of Death
Michael Dumanis – Walkup
Leila Chatti – Night Poem
Peter Mason – Winter Portrait of My Adolescence Beside Lake Ontario
TC Tolbert – Imago Dei
Where We’re At
Erin Hoffman – Cornhole
Weston Morrow – Arise and Unbuild It Again
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Christopher Kempf
Poetry Editor: Corey Van Landingham
Assistant Editors: Alixandra Shuger, Emmilea O’Toole, Chris Vanjonack
Editorial Assistants: Amanda Bales, Elizabeth Boyle, Claire Christoff, K. James D’Agostino, Madeline Furlong, Liz Harms, Chelsea Hill, Erin Hoffman, Drew Jennings, Brett Ashley Kaplan, Weston Morrow, Cole Piedimonte, Erich Slimak, Azlan Smith, Isaac Willis
Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham
Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker
Template Design: Natalie F. Smith
Cyanotypes on p. iii (Mushroom I), p. iv (Penguin), and p. 170 (Mushroom II) by Bridget Rubins, University of Illinois School of Art + Design.
Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Creative Writing Program
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Individual Sponsors
Capital:
Anonymous
Patron:
Delysa Burnier
Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham
John Hall, M.D. and Sarah Knox, M.D.
Friend
Anonymous
Rev. Charles Matz
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