2022 Intro Journals Project Winners

Poetry

Selected by Susan Moeller

• “I Dream of Dressing Your Altar with Slaughtered Meat”
  KJ Janeschek
  University of Alaska, Fairbanks MFA in Creative Writing
  Mid-American Review

• “How to Make Tamales”
  Andrew Acuna
  Eastern Washington University
  Tampa Review

• “Hunter's Moon”
  Sam Burt
  Bowling Green State University
  Colorado Review

• “notes on assimilation III”
  N.L. Shompole
  Pacific University MFA in Writing
  Tampa Review

• Triptych: House
  Kanika Ahuja
  Purdue University MFA
  Puerto del Sol

• “Hail Mary at the Hour of Our Deaths”
  Maggie Wolff
  University of Central Florida MFA Program
  Reed Magazine

• “Volunteering at an Alzheimer’s Unit”
  John Kneisley
  Colorado State University
  Quarterly West

• “Homestead”
  Zach Simon
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Creative Writing
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• Convent of the Sisters of Divine and Perpetual Sorrow
  Luke Smith
  University of Montana
  Iron Horse Literary Review

Honorable Mention

• “Doc”
  Albert M. Sotelo
  Pasadena City College Creative Writing Program

• “1956 Inaugural Echo Park Model Yacht Race”
  Claire Christoff
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Creative Writing

• “Amateur Entomology”
  Kate Gargo
  University of Denver

• “A Cabin in the Forest”
  KJ Janeschek
  University of Alaska, Fairbanks MFA in Creative Writing

• “Khalil Hawi’s Neighbor”
  Joud Haidar
  St. Olaf College

• “Epistle for the Woman, No Longer a Nun”
  Rachel Hynds
  Penn State BA/MA Program in Creative Writing

Fiction

Selected by Cliff Garstang

• “Will You Please Bring It Back To Me”
  Laura Dzubay
  Indiana University MFA Program
  Mid-American Review

• “King of the Hill, Top of the Heap”
  Serenity Marshall
  Old Dominion University
  Quarterly West

Honorable Mention

• “Travelers”
  Eimile Campbell
  Minnesota State University, Mankato

• “The Pity”
  Anna Noone
  Saint Mary’s College

• “Lead Poisoning”
  Kale Hanson
  Temple University

• Renuncia
  Gerardo Lamadrid Castillo
  UC Davis

• “The Two and the Three”
  Sruthi Narayanan
  University of Minnesota

• “The Vandal”
  Kiera Wolfe
  University of Maryland MFA Program in Creative Writing

Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Rebecca Moon Ruark

• “Starfish: A Paean to Those Who Cannot Breathe”
  Elizabeth Bolton
  University of Alaska, Fairbanks MFA in Creative Writing
  Puerto del Sol

• "If You Weren’t There"
  Sandy Robertson
  San Diego State University
  Colorado Review

• “Yes/No: Conversations with My Son”
  Kara Melissa Sharp
  Antioch University MFA in Creative Writing
  Tampa Review

• “Etymology of King County Family Court”
  Summer Wrobel
  University of North Carolina Wilmington MFA
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “El Velorio: An Elegy”
  Jerilynn Aquino
  Oklahoma State University
  Reed Magazine

Honorable Mention

• “Bloodline”
  Moriah McStay
  University of Memphis

• “Truth”
  Veni Fields
  ODU MFA

• “Case No. 4262”
  Cicily Bennion
  University of North Texas