Contest Winners
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
Winner: Maya Bustamante “With All My Heart”
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 for “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”
2023
The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prizes
Prose Winner: Sarah Moynihan
Poetry Winner: Sophie Archambault
The Jennie Hackman Memorial Award For Short Fiction
First Place: Pascale Joachim
Second Place: Noah Praver
Third Place: Connor Gustafson
The Aetna Creative Nonfiction Award
Co-Winners: Celine Agbotey and Jules Dowling
The Aetna Translation Award
Winner: Glorimarie Peña Alicea
The Aetna Children's Literature Award
Winner: Luisiana Duarte Armendáriz
Edwin Way Teale Award For Nature Writing
Winner: Madison Torre
The Long River Art Award
Winner: Skyler Kim
2022
The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prizes
Prose Winner: Kazi Begum
Poetry Winner: Rylee Thomas
The Jackie Hackman Memorial Award for Short Fiction
First Place: Allison Determan
Second Place: Katya Lyashenko for “Haunted Houses”
Third Place: Madison Bigelow
Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest
First Place: Rylee Thomas
Second Place: Lauren Young
Third Place: Sophie Archambault
The Aetna Creative Nonfiction Award
Winner: Nicole Catarino
The Aetna Translation Award
Winner: Aarushi Nohria
The Aetna's Children's Literary Award
Winner: Rylee Thomas
The Long River Review Graduate Writing Award
Winner: Liam Kelsey for “The Ostrava Line”
Edwin Way Teale Award For Nature Writing
Winner: John Guillemette Jr. for “When Treading Water Above a Bottomless Pit”
The Long River Art Award
Winner: Krista Mitchell
2021
The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prizes
Prose Winner: Tess Healy
Poetry Winner: Alexandra Houdeshell
The Jackie Hackman Memorial Award for Short Fiction
First Place: Allison Determan
Second Place: Ellen Fuller
Third Place: Tess Healy
The Aetna Creative Nonfiction Award
Winner: Maureen Mason
The Aetna Translation Award
Winner: Aarushi Norhria
The Aetna's Children's Literary Award
Winner: Kate Luongo
The Long River Review Graduate Writing Award
Winner: Kathryn Warrender-Hill
Edwin Way Teale Award For Nature Writing
Winner: Rose Datum
The Long River Art Award
Winner: Leyla Arici
2020
The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prizes
Prose Winner: Ryan Amato
Poetry Winner: Lili Fishman
The Jennie Hackman Memorial Award for Short Fiction
First Place: Kelly Rafferty
Second Place: Alexander Mika
Third Place: Kate Burns
Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest
First Place: Daniel Healy
Second Place: Julia Brush
Third Place: Matthew Ryan Shelton
The Aetna Creative Nonfiction Award
Winner: Aner Bajraktarevic
The Aetna Translation Award
Winner: Ain Jeong
The Aetna's Children's Literary Award
Winner: Kelly Rafferty
The Long River Review Graduate Writing Award
Winner: Maurice Rodriguez
Edwin Way Teale Award For Nature Writing
Co-Winners: Risa Lewis, Justine Phillips-Gallucci, and Sydney Guerrera
The Long River Art Award
Winner: Henry Wheelock