2023 Winners and Honorable Mentions

The results are in for the Spring 2023 University of Wyoming Undergraduate Writing Contest. We received and reviewed a significant number of submissions. Everyone that submitted should be proud of the work they put in! Here are the winners and honorable mentions for each category:

Winners

Fiction:

Brooke Nolan

“I Wasn't Done Dissolving”

Poetry:

Clara Robinson

"We bury you in the shallow earth"

Nonfiction:

Ryen Nielsen

“Squatter's Rights”

Honorable Mentions

Fiction:

Miracle Gardner

"The Self-Made Man"

Virginia Herboldsheimer

"Paint"

Liam Leslie

"Salt, Speed, Greed"

Ryen Nielsen

"Writhe"

Poetry:

Shannon Fassler

"Wants and Needs: A Poem of Scraps"

Thristen Haloman

"For Jack Twist"

Liam Leslie

"Chirps come from Choices"

Ryen Nielsen

"If that Mockingbird don't Sing"

Nikiphoros Vlastos

"Director's Cut"

Nonfiction:

Kyla Ditges

"Mischief"

Shannon Fassler

"Mental Health, Defined"

Liam Leslie

"My Piety. And their Portraits"

Karlea Radke

"The Seasons of Yearning (Me)"