2020 Intro Journals Project Winners

Intro Journals Winners: Poetry

Selected by Terry Ann Thaxton

• “Golden Shovel in a New York Ballroom”
  Alexa Quezada
  Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “Pablo’s Contrapuntal”
  Lindsay Lake
  University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Creative Writing MFA Program
  Tampa Review

• “i am unfit to raise daughters”
  Jessica Ram
  University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Creative Writing MFA Program
  Mid-American Review

• “Prequel to Truth”
  Jean Buehler
  St. Olaf College
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

• “Analogies to various facets of evolution (people of influence)”
  Sydney Minnehan
  St. Lawrence University
  Puerto del Sol

• “No Rhododendron”
  Samyak Shertok
  University of Utah Creative Writing Program
  Colorado Review

• “there’s a parcel in your pocket it carries your abduction”
  Kathryne David Gargano
  University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Creative Writing
  Tahoma Review

Honorable Mention

• “lay me on the table + put flowers in my mouth”
  Matt Mitchell
  Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature, Hiram College

• “Fireworks and Litanies”
  Collin Berry
  Vermont College of Fine Arts

• “yes, I’m black”
  Deziree Brown
  University of Illinois at Chicago

• “the derelict spacecraft tries, again, to define beauty”
  Hannah Cobb
  Eastern Washington University’s MFA

• “Thoughts While the Westboro Baptist Church Pickets Outside My School”
  Caroline Carpenter
  Central Michigan University

• “grade school”
  Matthew Fowler
  San Diego State University

• “Ode to Wisconsin”
  Jessica Tanck
  University of Illinois

• “Veteran’s Day, Arbeit Macht Frei-A Duet”
  Heather Tillery
  Eastern Washington University MFA

Intro Journals Winners: Fiction

Selected by Dave Housley

• “Someone Tell a Story, Something to Pass the Time”
  Lacey Rowland
  University of Missouri
  Tahoma Review

• “Elizabeth Kaplan’s Best Day Ever”
  Christopher Vanjonack
  University of Illinois
  Quarterly West

• “The Alien Dialogues”
  Mark DiFruscio
  Oklahoma State University
  Puerto del Sol

• “Trowel, Brush, Bones”
  Audrey Hollis
  Purdue University
  Iron Horse Literary Review

Honorable Mention

• “It’s Almost Like People Don’t Say What They Mean”
  Siarra Riehl
  Vermont College of Fine Arts’s MFA in Writing Program

• “Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Has 8 Symptoms”
  Ren Jones
  College of Charleston

• “The Fucked Upness”
  Lara Avery
  University of Mississippi MFA

• “Do You Think That Makes You Special?”
  Adam Rensch
  University of Illinois at Chicago

Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Tom Bligh

• “Pardo/Ghost Hand”
  Matthew Morris
  University of Arizona
  Mid-American Review

• “Love In the Time of Climate Change”
  Caroline Woodwell
  Eastern Washington University
  Tampa Review

• “On Gurning”
  Rebecca Brill
  University of Minnesota Creative Writing Program
  Colorado Review

• “Assemblies”
  Mary Henn
  University of Missouri Kansas City MFA Program
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

Honorable Mention

• “Sounds of War”
  Brandon Parker
  Point Loma Nazarene University

• “What It Means to Wade”
  Dakota Reed
  College of Charleston

• “Lineal Gaps”
  Esther Hayes
  Colorado State University

• “The Bitch’s Dictionary More or Less Alphabetically Arranged”
  Breanne Hager
  University of Memphis