Each year, the English department’s creative writing program conducts a university-wide competition that seeks to award the best undergraduate work in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
Below, find this year’s winners, runners-up, and honorable mentions. Congrats to all!
CREATIVE NONFICTION
First Place
- Addison Mitchell for “Digging to Italy”
Runner-Up
- Fiona Mayes for “Oversharing”
Honorable Mention
- Max Pohl for “Beelzebub and Black Holes“
FICTION
First Place
- Mikayla Crotchett for “Things Left to the Dirt”
Runner-Up
- Bear Atwood for “Servals, Collies, and Okapi”
Honorable Mentions
- Jessie Strong for “The Decent”
- Mandy Gonzales for “A Reflection of the Past”
Poetry
First Place
- Stella Van Buskirk for her collection Running Quite Quickly Through This House of Gladness which includes the poems: “winter,” “picture day,” “Introduction to Astronomy,” “that i must love stella,” and “Anonymous is a Woman”
Runners-Up
- Kelly Hobbick for “The Fallout of a Nuclear Family,” “Temporary Ichor,” and “And We Walk After”
- Mae Ferry for “Split Seconds: Four Ways of Seeing America,” “Daily science,” and “Sonata: mornings on a phone”
Honorable Mention
- Cana Peirce for “Ponderosa Prayer,” “The Housemate’s Cat,” “Okay, Let’s Trade,” and “The Hermit”
