Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Ben Grossberg

• “Harvest”
  Laura Bylenok, University of Utah
  Artful Dodge

• “Leaving Labor and Delivery”
  Erin Rodoni, San Diego State University
  Colorado Review

• “Cardinal Heaven”
  Danielle Weeks, University of Evansville
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “I Think I’m Almost Ready to See the Ocean”
  Michael Mlekoday, Indiana University
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “The Collective Nouns of Inanimate Objects” 
  Zackary Medlin, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
  Mid-American Review

• “Saint Petersburg”
  Inga Lea Schmidt, Goucher College
  Puerto Del Sol

• “A Guide to Mutton Busting”
  Ryan Cheng, University of
  South Florida
  Quarterly West

• “In the Breath of  Ten Thousand Metals”
  Sarah Crossland, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Tampa Review

Honorable Mention

• “Home Salon”
  Sara Sams, Arizona State University

• “Deer Hour”
  FM Stringer, University of Maryland, College Park

• “Degas’s The Dance Class, 1874”
  Elizabeth McDermott, University of Illinois at Chicago

• “Third Generation”
  Nicole Olweean, Grand Valley State University

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Kelcey Parker

• “Lucky”
  Melissa Goodrich, University of Arizona
  Artful Dodge

• “Krakow”
  Kelsey Ronan, Purdue University
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “The Curse of the Al-Turks”
  Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “Megan’s Home”
  A.B. Francis, University of
  San Francisco
  Mid-American Review

• “Love, From Mexico”
  R. Zoe Mungin, University of Massachusetts
  Quarterly West

Honorable Mention

• “Snag”
  Christie Hinrichs, University of Alaska-Fairbanks

• “Flying Alone”
  Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• “On the River Foyle”
  Miranda Stinson, University of Evansville

• “Come Down to the Water”
  Emily Lyons, University of Maryland, College Park

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Rigoberto Gonzalez

• “Hugo”
  Karen Maner, Eastern Washington University
  Colorado Review

• Homecoming”
  Silas Hansen, The Ohio State University
  Puerto Del Sol

• “Discovering Terra Incognita”
  John Messick, University of Alaska - Fairbanks
  Tampa Review

Honorable Mention

• “Connections”
  Jackie Heffron Williams, California State University, Fresno

• “Memories of Brownsville (as Relating to Parrots)”
  Carlos Serrano, Savannah College of Art & Design

• “Rivers”
  Elizabeth Knight, Brigham Young University

• “Lightning Flowers”
  Sarah K. Lenz, Georgia College & State University