Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Cathy Essinger

• “Quantum Kerfuffle”
  Nick Sturm, NEOMFA
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “God Reconsiders Egypt”
  Dustin M. Macormic, Missouri State University
  MidAmerican Review

• “Natural Selection”
  Richie Hofmann, Emory University
  Tampa Review

• “What is the Sacred Word on the Street”
  Dot Dannenberg, Pacific University
  Colorado Review

• “The Wrestling of Shadows”
  Karin Lightstone, University of Florida
  Puerto Del Sol

• “The Classroom”
  C. Cooper Smith, NEOMFA
  Puerto Del Sol

• “Daughter Psalms”
  Katie Schmid, University of Wyoming
  Quarterly West

• “Debriefing”
  Kyle Adamson, Normandale Community College
  Artful Dodge

• “My Brother’s Coat January 1943”
  Pamela R. Anderson, NEOMFA – Kent State University
  Controlled Burn

Honorable Mention

• “Dowry”
  Frances Won, Eastern Washington University
  “Rubbery Water Lily”

• Tristan Ciceran, Warren County Community College
  “Nativity”
  Tori Sharpe
  University of North Texas

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Darrin Doyle

• “I Want to Rove You”
  Lauren Foss Goodman, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “D-League”
  Adam Price, Univ. North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  MidAmerican Review

• “When the Green Went Away”
  Joe Hiland, Indiana University
  Colorado Review

• “Three Goats”
  Phillippe Diederich, University of South Florida
  Quarterly West

• “Dust”
  Topper Lilien, Antioch University Los Angeles
  Controlled Burn

Honorable Mention

• “The Seminarist”
  Branden Boyer-White, Arizona State University

• “Internet Dating Phase”
  David Blanton, University of Florida

• “Texas Funeral”
  Colleen Mayo, Hendrix College

• “The Mattress”
  Patricia Cottrell, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Michael Martone

• “We Don’t Serve Ums”
  Susan Muensterman, University of Mississippi
  Tampa Review

• “Self: A Musical”
  Joel Lee, NEOMFA
  Artful Dodge

Honorable Mention

• “Night of the Green Mango Donkey Fucker - A Collage of Whips”
  Robert Rome, New Mexico State University

• “Skimmer”
  Jame Davis, University of Florida

• “Zero”
  Max Bruno, Miami University

• “Gay Like Me”
  Isaac Butler, University of Minnesota

• “This Freaky Female Body”
  Nari Kirk, University of New Mexico MFA Program