University of Wyoming Creative Writing Contest
Organized by the Creative Writing Program
2024 Winners and Honorable Mentions
Congratulations to our 2024 first place winners and honorable mentions!
Poetry Winner
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Liam Leslie: Between My Toes
Poetry Honorable Mention
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Kylie Cook: Nebula
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Baylee Jade Stafford: Reflections of the Water on the Sky
Fiction Winner
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Isabelle Hunt: Lavigne
Fiction Honorable Mention
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Alayna Helms: Cold
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Tristan Gabel: Ryoshiba to Kubara
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Morgan Reid Jesse: Sweet as Sugar
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Emma Jones: From the Seed
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Jackson Weller: Morels and Agarics
Nonfiction Winner
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Emma Jones: Downstream from the Land of Broad Water
Nonfiction Honorable Mention
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Karter Murfitt: Ten Things That Make Me Forget
2023 Winners and Honorable Mentions
Congratulations to our 2023 first place winners and honorable mentions!
Poetry Winner
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Clara Robinson: We bury you in the shallow earth
Poetry Honorable Mention
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Ryen Nielsen: If that Mockingbird don’t Sing
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Thristen Haloman: For Jack Twist
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Shannon Fassler: Wants and Needs: A Poem of Scraps
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Liam Leslie: Chirps come from Choices
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Nikiphoros Vlastos: Director’s Cut
Fiction Winner
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Brooke Nolan: I Wasn’t Done Dissolving
Fiction Honorable Mention
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Ryen Nielsen: Writhe
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Liam Leslie: Salt, Speed, Greed
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Miracle Gardner: The Self-Made Man
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Virginia Herboldsheimer: Paint
Nonfiction Winner
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Ryen Nielsen: Squatter’s Rights
Nonfiction Honorable Mention
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Liam Leslie: My Piety. And Their Portraits
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Shannon Fassler: Mental Health, Defined
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Kyla Ditges: Mischief
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Karlea Radke: The Seasons of Yearning (Me)
2022 Winners and Honorable Mentions
Congratulations to our 2022 first place winners and honorable mentions!
Winners
Nikiphoros Vlastos: Poetry
“American Sonnet for those never published or spoke,” “Clear and Present Danger,” and “Trapped”
Katherine Jablin: Fiction
“The Inheritor”
Amy Gabriel: Nonfiction
“Scenes from the Chuckwagon”
Honorable Mentions
Kylie Woffinden: Poetry
“Letting him Go,” “This is the way I Love You,” and “Learning to Speak”
Ryen Nielsen: Poetry
“Role Models,” “Good Men Fear to Tread,” and “i attempt a summoning ritual in the youtube comment section of a city girl album”
Amy Gabriel: Poetry
“Tongues”
Kyla Ditges: Fiction
“A Simple Report on Seed Suppliers”
Caitlyn Mlodzik: Fiction
“Ani-Mall”
Jalen Cantu: Fiction
“To Those Who Think and To Those Who Feel”
Katherine Jablin: Nonfiction
“Wine, Blood, Gold, Fire”
Carissa Mosness: Nonfiction
“Shoveling the Sugar Away”
Katherine Rhoades: Nonfiction
“My Grandmother’s House”