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