Winners
2025
Fiction, selected by R. O. Kwon
Max Steiner, “Grace Zeroes Out”
Honorable Mention: Whitney Bryant, “A Small Matter in San Luis Potosí”
Nonfiction, selected by Elisa Gabbert
Ennis Smith, “Happy New Year”
Honorable Mention: Jamila Osman, “Dream Girl”
Poetry, selected by Joshua Bennett
Lo Naylor, “at the baggage claim in JFK”
Jonathan Wolf, “The Hog Farm”
2024
Fiction, selected by Dantiel W. Moniz
Susan Bartolme, “Because It’s Yours“
Honorable Mention: Nitya Rayapati, “Heroes and Villains”
Nonfiction, selected by Augusten Burroughs
Billy Lezra, “Mother’s Colors“
Honorable Mention: Mariah Gese, “Sympathetic Resonance”
Poetry, selected by Porsha Olayiwola
Andy Chen, “Longing“
Honorable Mention: Melissa McKinstry, “I’m Not Pushing a Wheelchair Anymore or Bathing Any Body Except My Own”
2023
Fiction, selected by Gish Jen
Mengyin Lin, “No prairie fire can destroy all the weeds.”
Honorable Mention: Steve Chang, “Tell Me What I’m Waiting For”
Nonfiction, selected by Meghan O’Rourke
Jen Lazar, “The End of What We Know“
Honorable Mention: Robin Babb, “The Iron Lung”
Poetry, selected by Sandra Cisneros
Logan Klutse, “Bronx Operating Room”; “Learning of Conspiracy Theories that ’the Portal to Hell Resides Beneath the Denver Airport’”
Honorable Mention: Brandi Nicole Martin, “Hold the Applause”; “Eurydice in the ICU”
2022
Fiction, selected by Amelia Gray
Catherine Kim, “Mache/Mary“
Honorable Mention: Sophie Newman, “Creatures of the Deep”
Honorable Mention: Sena Moon, “The Sampo Generation”
Nonfiction, selected by Danielle Geller
Megan Valley, “Painstaking Preservation“
Honorable Mention: Anna Lee Hirschi, “What Miracles of Art: Reading Jane Kenyon in a Pandemic”
Poetry, selected by Chen Chen
Giovannai Rosa, “untitled sugar poem“
Honorable Mention: DeeSoul Carson, “Theory of Alternate Cosmogenies”
2021
Fiction, selected by Kiley Reid
Meghan O’Toole, “Good Food For Starving Things“
Honorable Mention: Sam Wachmann, “The Right Way To Drown”
Nonfiction, selected by Paul Lisicky
Madeline Vosch, “Undead“
Honorable Mention: Jimin Kang, “What Prayer Is”
Poetry, selected by Paige Lewis
Margaret Wright, “Accidents“
Honorable Mention: Carolann Caviglia Madden, “At the Mass Stranding I Decide”
2020
Fiction, selected by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Sofia Puente-Lay, “Vigil“
Honorable Mention: April Bo Wang, “How to Save People”
Nonfiction, selected by Esmé Weijun Wang
Jeremiah Barker, “Bearing“
Honorable Mention: S.J. Kim, “정”
Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky
Mariya Zilberman, “Against Temporality“
Honorable Mention: JD Debris, “[one for Adán]”
2019
Fiction, selected by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ruby Todd, “Creation“
Honorable Mention: Jack Foraker, “Pirating”
Nonfiction, selected by Leslie Jamison
Jung Hae Chae, “Pojangmacha People“
Honorable Mention: Sophie Paquette, “Clean & Pretty”
Poetry, selected by Fatimah Asghar
Aurielle Marie, “a psalm in which i demand a new name for my kindred“
Honorable Mention: Olatunde Osinaike, “from Twelve”
2018
Fiction, selected by Carmen Maria Machado
Anne de Marcken, “Foil“
Honorable Mention: Puloma Ghosh, “Dessication”
Nonfiction, selected by Roxane Gay
Laura Price Steele, “These Bodies Will Undo Us“
Honorable Mention: Jaclyn Moyer, “Windows”
Poetry, selected by Roger Reeves
Alycia Pirmohamed, “Elegy for My Mother’s Sister,” “Ways of Looking,” “Belief as an Ocean Landscape,” and “No Homeland Ghazal“
Honorable Mention: Corey Miller, “Study for a Canary’s Song,” “Studies for an Embrace,” and “The New Concentration”
2017
Fiction, selected by Garth Greenwell
Rowan Beaird, “Perennial”
Honorable Mention: Yasin Abdul-Muqit, “Ping Times”
Nonfiction, selected by Meghan Daum
Ellen Adams, “The Something I Am Telling You”
Honorable Mention: Miles Fuller, “Cole’s Black Hole”
Poetry, selected by Natalie Diaz
Andrew Eaton, “The Chime,” “Luthier,” “Aubade to Replace the Sounds of Morning,” “Draining the Lake,” and “After the shipwreck”
Honorable Mention: Noah Baldino, “Confessions of a Teenage Linebacker,” “Table Manners,” “The Parade,” and “From Ex Voto Anatomico”
2016
Fiction, selected by Anthony Marra
Lydia Martin, “The Adjustment Act“
Honorable Mention: Joy Baglio, “How to Survive on Land”
Nonfiction, selected by Dinty W. Moore
Mimi Dixon, “Breath“
Honorable Mention: Danielle Geller, “Annotating the First Page of the First Navajo-English Dictionary”
Poetry, selected by Marianne Boruch
Leila Chatti, “Confession“
Honorable Mention: Aaron Krol, “In Sharpening the Blade, You Make a Smaller Blade”
2015
Fiction, selected by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Lucy Tan, “Safety of Numbers“
Nonfiction, selected by Jabari Asim
Emily Strasser, “Homeplace“
Poetry, selected by Matthew Lippman
Emily Jungmin Yoon, “An Ordinary Misfortune” and “An Ordinary Misfortune“
2014
Fiction, selected by Margot Livesey
Tomiko M. Breland, “Rosalee Carrasco“
Nonfiction, selected by Ladette Randolph
Eliese Colette Goldbach, “In the Memory of the Living“
Poetry, selected by John Skoyles
Rosalie Moffett, Three Poems
2013
Fiction, selected by Margot Livesey
Memory Blake Peebles, “The Sugar Bowl“
Nonfiction, selected by Ladette Randolph
Mary Winsor, “Rock-a-bye, Ute“
Poetry, selected by John Skoyles
Josephine Yu, Two Poems
2012
Fiction, selected by Margot Livesey
Jasmine Sawers, “The Culling“
Nonfiction, selected by Ladette Randolph
Jacob Newberry, “What Will You Do“
Poetry, selected by John Skoyles
Jen Silverman, Bath Poems
2011
Fiction, selected by DeWitt Henry
Thomas Lee, “The Gospel of Blackbird“