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”
Gloriana Gill Art Award
Etching: Krista Mitchell “The Fool”
Photography: Lee Ernest “Enraptured In Your Capture”
Long River Art Award
Maya Bustamante “With All My Heart”
2023-2024
The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prizes
Prose Winner/$2,200: Sarah Kelly for “The Cardinal Girl”
Poetry Winner/$2,200: Charlie Case for “Aromantic’s Apotropaic”
Honorable Mention: Madison Bigelow for “Flicking the ash”
The Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction
First place/$1,000: Charlie Case for “Newton Considers the Still Life”
Second place/$300: Rylee Thomas for “Apples to Earthworms: A Love Story”
Third Place/$200: Krista Mitchell for “First Motel”
Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest
First place/$1,000: Madison Bigelow
Second place/$500: Anh Le “fairybreeze”
Third place/$250: Nikki Blumenfeld
Honorable Mention: Eric Maroney
The Aetna Prize for Creative Writing for Children & Young Adults
Winner/$250: Rylee Thomas for “The Zoeys”
Honorable Mention: Ashley Pizzo for “The Edge of the Forest”
The Aetna Prize for Translation
Winner/$250: Ashley Pizzo for “The Mule” original title “Lu Sceccu” by Ignazio Buttitta
The Aetna Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Winner/$250: Gabrielle Wincherhern for “Little Loves”
Honorable Mentions: Zeynep Özer for “Arboreal: A Field Log;” Krista Mitchell for “How Sunlight Rests on Stone;” Jami Pandiscio for “Ink Bonds”
The Long River Review Graduate Writing Award
Winner/$250: Zeynep Özer for “Displaced”
Honorable Mention: Nikki Blumenfeld for “Topography”
The Edwin Way Teale Award for Nature Writing
Winner/$100: Zeynep Özer for “Arboreal: A Field Log”