Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Philip Metres

• “City Resident”
  Simon Neely, St. Mary’s College of California MFA in Creative Writing
  Colorado Review

• “When Asked How Many, I Didn’t Know”
  Austin Anderson, Oregon State University—Cascades, Low-residency MFA in Creative Writing
  Iron Horse Review

• “Thank You When I’m an Axe”
  Emily Skaja, Purdue University MFA program
  Mid American Review

• “Ancestor”
  Rajiv Mohabir, The University of Hawai’I at Manoa
  Quarterly West

• “To Delete, Press Seven”
  Joshua Flaccavento, SUNY Buffalo
  Artful Dodge

• “Sinus Amorous”
  Benjamin Voigt, University of Alabama
  Tampa Review

• “Blackout”
  Abigail Kerstetter, Colorado State University
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “She Shipped Her Cock Priority”
  Joseph Gordon, University of San Francisco MFA in Writing Program
  Puerto Del Sol

Honorable Mention

• “Party Crashers”
  Hannah Dow, Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi

• “The Daughters of Le Vallée des Singes”
  Raye Hendrix, Auburn University Creative Writing Program

• “Spike, Javelin, Harpoon”
  Cait Weiss, The Ohio State University MFA Program in Creative Writing

• “Oh, Io”
  Alison Thompson,  Miami University Creative Writing Program

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Erin McGraw

• “No One Can Tell You What to Keep”
  James Clark, Stephen F. Austin State University
  Iron Horse Review

• “The Seven Deaths of the Family Contreras”
  Molly Olguin, The Ohio State University MFA Program in Creative Writing
  Quarterly West

• “The Hyphenates of Jackson County”
  Theodore Wheeler, Creighton University MFA in Creative Writing
  Artful Dodge

Honorable Mention

• “The Narrators”
  Joshua Sheridan, The College of Saint Rose MFA in Creative Writing

• “Hobophobia”
  Alysandra Dutton, Hiram College

• “Goshen Pass”
  Michael Alessi, Old Dominion University MFA Creative Writing Program

• “Acolytes”
  Brett Puryear, University of Montana MFA In Creative Writing

• “Big House”
  Matthew Cherry, University of Central Oklahoma

• “Ruminations of a Withered Apple Sapling”
  Charlie Sterchi, Auburn University

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Sue William Silverman

• “Inside the Chönyid Bardo”
  Jan Becker, Florida International University MFA Program
  Colorado Review

• “A Gathering of Then and Now”
  Melissa Matthewson, Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA/Writing Program
  Mid American Review

• “Nausicaa”
  Emily Geminder, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  Tampa Review

• “How to Write A War Poem”
  Micah Fields, University of Montana
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “A Matter of National Security”
  Jason Harrington, University of Mississippi
  Puerto Del Sol

Honorable Mention

• “First Kiss”
  Katie Zeitz, Goddard College BFA Program in Creative Writing

• “No-see-ums”
  Jan Bindas-Tenney, University of Arizona Creative Writing MFA Program

• “epigraph : in response to circles”
  Angelica Maria Barraza, Naropa University Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics