Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Tyehimba Jess

• “House Fire”
  Kari Stewart, Sterling College, Sterling Kansas
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “Field Trip to the Dead President’s House”
  Emma Hyche, Auburn University
  Tampa Review

• “Elegy for Jonah Sleepless in the Whale”
  Brennan Bestwick, Kansas State University,
  Manhattan, KS
   Colorado Review

• “Make Blood”
  Cedar Brant, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
  Quarterly West

• “Kubler-Ross Hospice Photography”
  Michael Hurley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Puerto del Sol

• “Poem for the God of Cities Left Burning”
  Audrey Gradzewicz, Purdue University
  Mid-American Review

• “Throw Away The Cowboy Shirts”
  Alan Chazaro, University of San Francisco
  Iron Horse Review

• “What Are You?”
  Amanda Huynh, Old Dominion University MFA Program
  Tahoma Literary Review

Honorable Mention

• “County Road 518 at Country Road 24”
  Alison Chestnut, MFA Creative Writing, Mississippi University for Women.

• “I Have Monkeys”
  Gianna Russo, Ashland University MFA in Creative Writing

• “There is a Word for This, I’m Sure of It”
  Michael Gruber, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

• “Praise Break”
  J. J. Hernandez, MFA Program at California State University, Fresno

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Mary Grimm

• “Cobra”
  Sabrina Napolitano, University of Central Florida, Orlando
  Quarterly West

• “A Short Walk Up Graves Hill”
  Anna Caritj, Hollins University
  Mid-American Review

• “From the Watchtower”
  Nathaniel Barron, Colorado State University,   
  Fort Collins
  Iron Horse Review

• “Make It Yours”
  Joseph Holt, University of Southern Mississippi Center for Writers
  Tahoma Literary Review

Honorable Mention

• Possibility”
  Shannon Skelton, Georgia College and State University

• “Noah”
  Daniel Lalley, University of San Francisco MFA in Writing Program

• “River Bandit”
  Carl Napolitano, Hendrix College

• “Hurt”
  Katie Knoll, University of Cincinnati

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Jessica Handler

• “Dispatch from the Carnival: And the Low Sky Opens”
  Tessa Fontaine, University of Utah
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “What Work Is”
  Allison Campbell, University of Southern Mississippi Center for Writers
  Tampa Review

• “Exposure”
  Emily Strasser, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  Colorado Review

• “Borrowed Gardens”
  Anne Royan, Savannah College of Art and Design
  Puerto del Sol

Honorable Mention

• “There is But One Choice: Confession or Some Form of Extinction”
  Natalie Singer-Velush, University of Washington, Bothell MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics

• “Moving Forward, In Russian”
  Emily Ziffer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

• “The Best Casual Glass Cannon of All Time vs The Specter of Personal Hygiene”
  Janet Towle, University of Arizona Creative Writing MFA

• “There’s a Nigger in the House”
  David Jackson, Temple University MFA Creative Writing Program