2008 Intro Journals Project Winners
Intro Journals Winners: Poetry
Selected by Julia Levine
“Elegy with Windings, Ancient and Modern”
Brian Dunn, Purdue University
Hayden’s Ferry Review“Duffy’s Inferno”
Martha Miller, Converse College
Colorado Review“Unrecorded”
Aaron Rudolph, Texas Tech University
Mid-American Review“Observe the Animals”
Cassandra Howard, Southern Illinois University
Quarterly West“Avocado”
Sara Johnson, University of Oregon
Tampa Review“Affinity”
Mindy Gutowski, Purdue University
Artful Dodge“The goats have taken over the barracks”
Andrew Najberg, Spalding University
Artful Dodge“Rothko’s Room (at the Tate Modern)”
Beth Marzoni, Western Michigan University
C O N T R O L L E D B U R N
Honorable Mention
“What is Lost, What is Found”
Rachel Woodward, Binghamton University“Katrina”
Myles Gordon, Vermont College of Fine Arts“Ritual of Birds”
Chris Hayes, The University of Mississippi“Epilepsy”
Barbara O. Perez, University of Massachusetts Boston“a walk within a walk”
by Kevin Carrigan, Bradley University
Intro Journals Winners: Fiction
Selected by Kwame Dawes
“Toadman”
Peter Grimes, University of Cincinnati
Hayden’s Ferry Review“Den Mother”
Kirstin Valdez Quade, University of Oregon
Colorado Review“Pond Twenty-Seven”
Scott Ditzler, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Puerto del Sol
Honorable Mention
“Virginia is a Different Country”
Max Everhart, University of Alabama at Birmingham“Unmelodic Air”
Mike Imondi, Hofstra University“I’ll Tell the Mill” (novel excerpt)
Jackson Connor, Ohio University“Rosenvasser’s Ghost” (novel excerpt)
Miriam Parker, University of North Carolina - Wilmington
Intro Journals Winners: Creative Nonfiction
Selected by Brenda Miller
“Monsters of South Dakota”
Jennifer Linscott, University of Mississippi
Mid-American Review“Play Dead”
Dave Madden, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Tampa Review“The Strong Force”
Erin Bond, University of North Carolina - Wilmington
Quarterly West
Honorable Mention
“Alka-Seltzer”
Erica Licourt, Spalding University“A Normal Part”
Jennifer Lynn Holley, University of Connecticut“In Tooth and Claw”
Bryr Ludington, University of Alaska - Fairbanks“A Penny and a Nickel”
Brenna Casey, University of Notre Dame