Award Winners
2016
Nonfiction:
1st Place: Charlie King-Hagen, "On Rain: or, a love letter to my father"
2nd Place: Margaret Lang, "Absence Unfelt: Eight Things I Didn't Know I Never Had."
Fiction:
1st Place: Dustin Vann, "The Director"
2nd Place: Anna Meyer, "Devotion"
Poetry:
No Awards Given
Art:
1st Place: Josh Nolan, "Home"
2nd Place: Abby Schleicher, "Discord"
2014
NonFiction:
1st Place: Grant Samms, "What Are the Odds"
2nd Place: Chelsea Aeschliman, "The House that Built Me"
Fiction:
1st Place: Charles King-Hagen, "Hazel Kinder's Lighthouse Theater"
2nd Place: Tanner Rush, "Sirens"
Poetry:
1st Place: Dillon Rockrohr, "Mid Campus"
2nd Place: Cormac Badger, "Everyone Can Pick Up Heavier Things than Me"
Flash Fiction:
1st Place: Charles King-Hagen, "John Player Specials"
2nd Place: Kari Bingham-Gutierrez, "Payday Loans"
Art:
1st Place: Gabrielle DeFonso, "Here's Johnny"
2nd Place: Brian Hampel, "The Seer in his Study"
2013
Fiction
1st Place: Erin Coldirn, "When the Painting Cracks"
2nd Place: Jessica Sovick, "The Skull with the Tear Drop"
Nonfiction
1st Place: Shannon Brooks, "Finding Time"
2nd Place: Charlesia McKinney, "The Beauty in Labels"
Poetry
1st Place: Kenan Dannenberg, "The Place on the Wall Where the Picture Used to Hang"
2nd Place: Meghan Bing, "I Like the Sound of That"
2011
Fiction:
1st Place: Jacob Smith, "Windrows" by Jacob Smith
2nd Place: Elisabeth Short, "The Massacre at No Gun Ri"
Nonfiction:
1st Place: Kaylea Pallister, "We'll Get There When We Get There"
2nd Place: Emily Schomaker, "Through the Lens of a Face Shield"
Poetry:
1st Place: Dan Hornsby, "The Goddess of Destruction Single-Handedly Kills a Chicken Somewhere in Mexico"
2nd Place: John Quinn, "Headlines From Earth"
Art:
1st Place: Cody Hadrick, "Happy Halloween"
2010
Fiction:
1st Place: Kate Harland, "A Wedding Announcement"
2nd Place: Megan Travelstead, "Ruth Walks Her Strawberry Step"
Nonfiction:
1st Place: Bethaney Wallace, "Riding the Wagon"
Poetry:
1st Place: Jimbo Ivy, "How to fuck a stranger"
2nd Place: Heather Etelamaki, "Things Remembered and Not"