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2023 Intro Journals Project Winners

2023 Intro Journals Project Winners


Poetry

Selected by Jennifer Moore

  • “Ghost Eulogy”
    Sara Verstynen
    Northwestern University
    Reed Magazine

  • "Sadie”
    Shannon Moran
    University of Missouri-Kansas City
    Hayden’s Ferry Review

  • "Visiting a Friend on a Snowy Night”
    Chengru He
    University of Utah
    Colorado Review

  • “Three Days After My Mom Starts Hospice, My Son Can't Sleep”
    Angela Voras-Hills
    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Mid-American Review

  • "Countdown"
    Carrie Johnson
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Quarterly West

  • “Etymology of Meal”
    Veronica Silva
    University of Central Florida
    Iron Horse Literary Review

  • “14 Minute Sonnet”
    Grace Smith
    West Virginia University
    Puerto del Sol

  • “Equinox”
    Brian Czyzyk
    University of North Texas
    Tampa Review

Honorable Mention

  • “Some Wound of Color”
    Nate Metz
    Santa Clara University

  • “Letters from Atlantis”
    Daniel Barton
    University of Illinois at Chicago

  • “upon viewing Hunt’s Scapegoat (1856)”
    Savannah Moix-Rogers
    Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop

  • “Hurricane Season"
    Chelsea Hill
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • “A Smile is not a convincing argument”
    Monir Gholamzadeh Bazarbash
    Purdue University

  • “Kylix”
    M. Sage Flint
    Central Washington University

  • “Apophatic Poem”
    Jennifer Loyd
    Texas Tech University

  • “Blood & Guts”
    Charlotte Smith
    St. Olaf College

Fiction

Selected by Gwen Kirby

  • “A Vanishing”
    Blake Chernin
    Purdue University
    Iron Horse Literary Review

  • “Deborah Forever”
    Kasey Peters
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Hayden’s Ferry Review

  • “For Someone”
    Madeline Simms
    University of Alabama
    Quarterly West

  • “Wisdom Teeth”
    Liina Koivula
    Eastern Washington University
    Puerto del Sol

Honorable Mention

  • “Stranger”
    Jake Zawlacki
    Louisiana State University

  • “Old Queens”
    Steven Archer
    University of Central Florida

  • “My Girlfriend the Wax Specialist”
    Victoria Hulbert
    University of Mississippi

  • "Mythologies and Fruiting Bodies"
    Sasheene Denny
    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Sonya Huber

  • “Hair”
    Ciara Alfaro
    University of Minnesota
    Mid-American Review

  • "Lost Wingman”
    Laura Joyce-Hubbard
    Northwestern University
    Reed Magazine

  • “The Archer”
    Jacob M. Hall
    Texas Tech University
    Colorado Review

  • “Ṣọkọyọ̀kọ̀tọ̀”
    Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
    University of Alabama
    Tampa Review

Honorable Mention

  • “Queer Paranoia at the Dua Lipa Concert”
    Kurt Ostrow
    The Ohio State University

  • “My Problem Was I Didn’t Leave Him”
    Allison Field Bell
    University of Utah

  • “What Blood Remembers”
    Akira Ritos
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • “Your Lovely Gaza”
    Tayma Al-Astal
    Marshall University