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2017 Spring Contest Results

Fiction Award

Judged by Patricia Park

• Winner: Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, “Feeding Strays”
• Runner-Up: Victoria Saltz, “My Shopping List”
• Readers’ Choice: Jeffrey Ricker, “Multiverse”

Nonfiction Award

Judged by Elena Passarello

• Winner: Liz Asch, “Trompe L’Oeil”
• Runner-Up: Melissa Wiley, “Swallowing Needles”
• Finalists:
  • Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade, “In Flight”
  • Betty Rosen, “Clevelanding”
  • Mandy Clark, “Centralia”

Greg Grummer Poetry Award

Judged by Monica Youn

• Winner: Jennifer Givhan, “Tigers for Tamir Rice”
• Finalists:
  • Jessica Guzman Alderman, “Register of Futures: Florida”
  • Caroline Chavatel, “Grouping”
  • Margaret Cipriano, “An Enormous Number of Possible Configurations”
  • Emily Rose Cole, “MS Nocturne Without a Magician”
  • Chelsea Dingman, “Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (Complicated Grief)”
  • Moira J., “A Lesson in Weight and Thankfulness”
  • Anita Olivia Koester, “Constellation of a Missing Girl”
  • Jessica Lee, “Morphology”
  • Victoria Bosch Murray, “Handfast”

Fiction

• Hannah Tinti, “Bullet Number One”
• Rion Amilcar Scott, “[THE HAND A COMET, BEHIND HER TWO PLANETS]”
• Megan Cummins, “Engine”
• Aaron J. Housholder, “Baggy”

Nonfiction

• Ander Monson, “TIME TO BLEED” and “TIME TO BLEED”
• Belle Boggs, “The Tooth: a true story”
• Steven Church, “Wake Up Call”
• Brian Oliu, “Stone Cold Steve Austin Cannot Be Forgotten”
• Jill Talbot and Justin Lawrence Daugherty, “On Words, Like Wanderings”
• Nick Kowalczyk, “To Finally Embrace Living”

Poetry

• Laura Buccieri, “a foreign couple”
• Johnny Damm, “Riddle of the Runaway Earth”
• Dylan Krieger, “cesarean vegetarian”
• Matt Trease, “lIght bird”

Artwork

• Kat McDonald, “Controlling Chaos”