2019 General Editor

Dave Essinger, University of Findlay

Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Stephanie L. Harper

• “Self-Portrait as Minotaur”
  Jacqueline Balderrama, Utah University
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• "How Could This Be a Time for Music?"
  Nishat Ahmed, Old Dominion University MFA Program
  Tampa Review

• “kintsugi"
  Grace Anderson, Normandale AFA in Creative Writing
  Puerto del Sol

• “The Waiting House”
  Caitlin Wilson, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “Heron”
  McKayla Conahan, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Mid-American Review

• “Dear Anhedonia”
  Carrie McGath, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Tahoma Literary Review

• “This Motion, These Whispers”
  Emma DePanise, Salisbury University
  Quarterly West

• “Properties of Wonder”
  Benjamin Pearce Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Colorado Review

Honorable Mention

• “The Last Beekeeper”
  Samyak, Utah University

• “Elegy for a White-Noise Machine”
  Emma DePanise, Salisbury University

• “At Nightfall”
  Kelly Zanotti, Hollins University

• “St. John in the Wilderness”
  Joanie Braddock, University of North Carolina, Asheville

• “Syampu”
  Hernan Ramos, University of San Francisco MFA in Writing Program

• “Blood”
  Charlie Peck, Purdue

• “Our Body Restless”
  Makensi Ceriani, Virginia Tech MFA Program

• “I wrapped the animals I skinned around your hands and neck”
  Jacob Lindberg, University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Robert James Russell

• “Momma Had A River Voice”
  Christy Nicole Helms, Georgia College
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “Galilee, if you Squint”
  Katerina Ivanov, University of Arizona MFA
  Iron Horse Literary Review

•  “The Root of My Family”
  Mirri Glasson-Darling, Virginia Tech MFA Program
  Mid-American Review

Honorable Mention

• “Finding Lula”
  David Aubuchon, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

• “The Fairy Tale Machine”
  Gwendolyn Edward University of Missouri, Columbia

• “A Unicorn in Paris”
  Natalie Havlina, Florida International University

• “The West Is Where My Mother Is”
  Katherine Anfinson, Virginia Commonwealth University

• “Gosh”
  Laura Jok, University of Illinois, Chicago

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Lara Lillibridge

• “Requirements for the Master of Arts in English”
  Sarah Helen, University of Mississippi MFA
  Quarterly West

• “Pretty”
  Saheeda Jabriel Wilson, Georgia College
  Puerto del Sol

• “Visitation”
  Jen Samnons, Miami University
  Tahoma Literary Review

• “The Teacher Doesn't Jump in Front of the Bullet”
  Melanie Farmer, University of Central Florida MFA
  Tampa Review

• “Mr. Fantastic Measures Conifers”
  Brian Czyzyk, Purdue
  Colorado Review

Honorable Mention

• “The Yellow Hammer”
  Anna Davis Abel, West Virginia University

• “And I Will Give You As Many Roast Bones As You Need”
  Sean Iroman, University of Missouri, Columbia

• “Counting by Threes”
  Jill Deasy, Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing