2012 Winners
2012 High School Winner: Brittany Newell
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
Bad Kids
2012 Two-Year College Fiction Winner: Edwin Reese
St. Louis Community College – Meramec, St. Louis, MO
Lost Cosmonauts
2012 Four-Year College Fiction Winner: Vincent Scarpa
Emerson College, Boston, MA
I Hope You’re Wrong About Scottsdale
2012 Four-Year College Poetry Winner: Kim Stoll
Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
If the Stars Were Black, the Skies White
View the full list of 2012 winners.
2011 Winners
2011 High School Winner: Dalia Wolfson
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Parquet Dictionary
2011 Two-Year College Winner: Christopher Woodard
Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
Let All Those End Soon With Few Tears
2011 Four-Year College Winner: Elisa Gonzalez
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Digital Leftovers, All the Words I Knew, Family History
2010 Winners
2010 High School Winner: Dawna Bagherian, High Above the Ground
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois
2010 Community College Winner: Gwyne Bahler, Hair
Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette, Indiana
2010 College Winner; Minh Phuong Nguyen, Suffering Self
University of Missouri - Colombia
2009 Winners
2009 High School Winner: Emily Swanagin
Read Emily's essay Luna
Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Alabama
2009 College Winner: John Gilmore, Final Cascade
John's piece has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Creative Nonfiction.
Utah State University, Logan