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 MFA program in Creative Writing and Media Arts
  Hayden’s Ferry Review

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

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

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

• “Etymology of a Meal”
  Veronica Silva
  University of Central Florida Creative Writing MFA
  Iron Horse Literary Review

• “14 Minute Sonnet”
  Grace Smith
  West Virginia University MFA in Creative Writing
  Puerto del Sol

• “Equinox”
  Brian Czyzk
  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 Creative Writing Program

• “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 Creative Writing
  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 MFA Program
  Puerto de Sol

Honorable Mention

• “Stranger”
  Jake Zawlacki
  Louisiana State MFA Program

• “Old Queens”
  Steven Archer
  University of Central Florida Creative Writing MFA

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

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

Creative Nonfiction

Selected by Sonya Huber

• “Hair”
  Ciara Alfaro
  University of Minnesota MFA Program in Creative Writing
  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 MFA Program in Creative Writing

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

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

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