2021 Intro Journals Project Winners

Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Karen Craigo

• “Autotomy”
  J.P. Grasser
  University of Utah Creative Writing Program
  Colorado Review

• “Dear Make-Pretender”
  Andy Sia
  University of Mississippi MFA Program
  Puerto del Sol

• “Pandemic Haircuts”
  Cassandra Caverhill
  Bowling Green State University
  Reed Magazine

• “What’s Inside”
  Nathaniel Ricketts
  Penn State BAMA in Creative Writing
  Tampa Review

• “Blueshift”
  Jon Elofson
  University of North Carolina Wilmington’s MFA Program in Creative Writing
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “Which One”
  Skye Jackson
  University of New Orleans
  Reed Magazine

• “Would I Rather Soften”
  Ae Hee Lee
  University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Creative Writing
  Mid-American Review

• “I Want To Write A Poem About My Hometown”
  Sydney Vogl
  University of San Francisco MFA in Writing Program
  Iron Horse Literary Review

Honorable Mention

• “Talk to Me About the Deer”
  Nick McDonald
  University of Nebraska at Omaha

• “A Recipe for Bread Pudding”
  Zoe Dudack
  College of Wooster

• “Ode to ‘Unknown African Doll’ at the Orlando Museum of Art”
  Jada Reyes
  University of Central Florida

• “Terminal Velocity”
  Tegan Murrell
  University of Alabama MFA Program

• “Self-Portrait as My Grandpa’s John Deere Hat”
  Eileen Winn
  Florida Atlantic University MFA

• “the boys with dead mothers become better with time”
  Skye Jackson
  University of New Orleans

• “We All Wanted an Argonaut Husband”
  Katie McMorris
  Purdue University MFA

• “the boy thinks about other boys”
  Ben Wenzl
  University of Nebraska at Omaha

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Mary Grimm

• “The Most Ordinary Thing”
  Mia Yanosy
  University of Connecticut
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “The Blood Kettle”
  Danielle Harms
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Mid-American Review

• “Pumpjack”
  Steven Vineis
  University of North Carolina Wilmington
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

Honorable Mention

• “Phooka Road”
  Keith Enterante
  San Diego State University

• “Ain't No Glory for Billy”
  Rebecca Wood
  University of Alaska Fairbanks MFA Program

• “The Gas Station”
  Chloe McConnell
  St. Lawrence University

• “Younger”
  Shane Inman
  New Mexico State University

• “Bhopal, 1984”
  Samia Ahmed
  Old Dominion University MFA Program

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Athena Dixon

• “The Loneliest One”
  Nick Castro
  University of San Francisco MFA in Writing Program
  Puerto del Sol

• “Gift”
  Jonathan Winston Jones
  Northwestern University
  Quarterly West

• “I Never See Her Anymore”
  Emily Standlee
  University of Missouri Kansas City MFA Program in Creative Writing
  Tampa Review

• “The Sky is a Liar Being Blue”
  Ashlee Beals
  University of New Orleans
  Reed Magazine

Honorable Mention

• “Jaeger Lecoultre”
  Chaeyeon Park
  Creative Writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• “Second-Hand Smoke”
  Savanna Bader
  Hendrix College

• “Maude to Annie”
  Nicole Pendleton
  University of Central Florida

• “Build Yourself a New Body”
  RaJon Staunton
  Marshall University