Contest Winners
2024-2025
The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prizes
Prose Winner/$2,800: Jenna Ulizio for “Eleven Things You Don’t Do”
Honorable Mention: Grace Carver for “The Artists”
Poetry Winner/$2,800: Kaitlin Anderson for “Persephone’s Vanitas”
Honorable Mention: Grace Xiong for “Grandpa’s Hands”
The Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction
First place/$1,000: Grace Carver for “Gretel”
Second place/$300: Karen Lau for “Letter from 1968”
Third Place/$200: Lucy Lyttle for “A Requiem for the Endling”
Honorable Mentions: Abigail Fortenbach for “Portrait of an Artist” and Michelle Martula for “The Bleating Mind”
Honorable Mentions: Abigail Fortenbach for “Portrait of an Artist”
and Michelle Martula for “The Bleating Mind”
Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest
First place tie/$500 each: Miranda Argyros and Charlotte Ungar
Second place/$500: Aidan Wood
The Aetna Prize for Creative Writing for Children & Young Adults
Winner/$250: Kiara Korten for “Intrados”
The Aetna Prize for Translation
Winner/$250: Catherine Keough for “The Days of Saveli”
Honorable Mention: Talbot Hook for “Don’t Deprive Me of My Complexities”
The Aetna Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Winner/$250: Miranda Argyros for “Untitled (red) Fragments”
Honorable Mentions: Lauren Ziolkowski for “Lantern Flies” and Jacklyn Donaldson for “Tom’s Dried and Blackened Human Heart”
The Long River Review Graduate Writing Award
Winner/$250: Miranda Argyros for “Untitled (red) Fragments”
The Edwin Way Teale Award for Nature Writing
Winner/$100: Sophie Buckner for “The Untitled Body Project”
Honorable Mention: Grace Carver for “The Memory Garden”