2023 Winners and Honorable Mentions

Poetry Winner

• Clara Robinson: We bury you in the shallow earth

 

Poetry Honorable Mention

• Ryen Nielsen: If that Mockingbird don’t Sing

• Thristen Haloman: For Jack Twist

• Shannon Fassler: Wants and Needs: A Poem of Scraps

• Liam Leslie: Chirps come from Choices

• Nikiphoros Vlastos: Director’s Cut

 

Fiction Winner

• Brooke Nolan: I Wasn’t Done Dissolving

 

Fiction Honorable Mention

• Ryen Nielsen: Writhe

• Liam Leslie: Salt, Speed, Greed

• Miracle Gardner: The Self-Made Man

• Virginia Herboldsheimer: Paint

 

Nonfiction Winner

• Ryen Nielsen: Squatter’s Rights

 

Nonfiction Honorable Mention

• Liam Leslie: My Piety. And Their Portraits

• Shannon Fassler: Mental Health, Defined

• Kyla Ditges: Mischief

• Karlea Radke: The Seasons of Yearning (Me)