Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

• “Site Fidelity”
  Anne Barngrover, University of Missouri Creative Writing
  Mid American Review

• “Measuring an Arc by Every Other Degree”
  James White, Florida Atlantic University MFA in Creative Writing
  Colorado Review

• “Descent”
  Lucien Darjeun Meadows, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “The Hook in the Throat Where Breath is Hung”
  David Antonio Moody, Florida State University
  Artful Dodge

• “Fidelity”       
  Jaya Stenquist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Program in Creative Writing
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “Rations”       
  Natalie Mesnard, University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, MFA in Creative Writing
  Tampa Review

• “Milk Way Nine Patch”
  Rachel  Rinehart, McNeese State University
  Quarterly West

• “Everything in My Life I’ve Invited”
  Ruth Baumann, University of Memphis
  Puerto Del Sol

Honorable Mention

• “Exchange Body”
  Kristen George Bagdanov, Colorado State University, Department of English

• “How to Measure a Season”
  Patrick McGee, Northern Kentucky University

• “Lies After the War”
  Miller Oberman, University of Connecticut, Department of English

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Daniel Chacón

• “Mezuzah”
  Tim Buchanan, Department of English, East Carolina University
  Puerto Del Sol

• “The Last Best Place”
  Christopher Connor, St Mary’s College of California, MFA Program
  Mid-American Review

• “Open at the Throat”
  Fae Dremock, Department of English & Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi
  Artful Dodge

• “The Demon at Montgomery Hill”
  Laura Smith, Florida State University
  Quarterly West

Honorable Mention

• “Across the Creek”
  Jayne Waldrop, Murray State University, MFA Program in Creative Writing

• “Herbert Hoover”
  Marla Weeg, Northwestern University, MA/MFA in Creative Writing

• “Women in the Garden”
  Patrick Sung, University of Miami Creative Writing Program 

• “Cavalier Presentations of Heartbreaking Updates”
  Sadie Hoagland, University of Utah, Creative Writing Program

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Lee Martin

• “Bruno in the Afternoon”
  Collette O’Connor, San Jose State University
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “Tenebrae”
  Jan Shoemaker, Ashland University
  Colorado Review

• “Charade”                  
  Kendra Atleework, University of Minnesota
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “The Oriel Window”
  Shanley Jacobs, University of San Franciso, MFA in Writing Program
  Tampa Review

Honorable Mention

• “Chasing Something in the Night”
  Sean Ironman, University of Central Florida

• “A Baptism that Keeps”
  Andrew Payton, Iowa State University, MFA in Creative Writing & Environment

• “Three Deaths”
  Emily Maloney, The University of Pittsburgh, Department of English

• “Kill Right Hunger”
  Sarah Heston, University of Missouri