Previous Winners and Runners-up:
Prose, judged by Vi Khi Nao (2021)
Winner: Afton Montgomery “Performing Completeness During Vivisection”
Runner-Up: Stacy Clark “To Be Clean”
Poetry, judged by Carmen Giménez Smith (2021)
Winner: Aristotle Johns “There’s This Spider”
Runner-Up: Ellen Seusy “Claro”
Runner-Up: Danielle Susi “In Which I Acquiesce”
Prose, judged by Pam Houston (2020)
Winner: Nathan Robison “Lacunae from the Life Of My Grandmother”
Runner-Up: Jennifer Battisti “Once More With Feeling”
Poetry, judged by Douglas Kearny (2020)
Winner: Madelyn Garner “Alzheimer’s: a Life Cycle”
Runner-Up: Cameron McGill “The Orphan”
Runner-Up: P.V. Beck “The Fall”
Prose, judged by Danielle Dutton (2019)
Winner: Laura Farnsworth “Carlsbad”
Runner-Up: Kenny Gordon “The Horse that was the Devil”
Poetry, judged by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (2019)
Winner: Mary Morris “Ecosystems of the Arctic Circle”
Runner-Up: Henrietta Goodman “Pelican”
Runner-Up: Kathleen Kilcup “Milk Fog”
Prose, judged by Lily Hoang (2018)
Winner: Alison Brimley “Thin Walls”
Runner-Up: Rachel Levy “Thief”
Runner-Up: jess nieberg “Take with Water”
Poetry, judged by Bob Hicok (2018)
Winner: Hollie Dugas “A Woman’s Confession #5,162”
Runner-Up: Tyler Goldman “Poeta Cullei”
Runner-Up: Madelyn Garner “A Kind of Knowing”