Winners and Runners-up:
Prose, judged by Pam Houston (2020)
Winner: Nathan Robison “Lacunae from the Life of My Grandmother”
Runner-Up: Jennifer Battisti “Once More, With Feeling”
Poetry, judged by Douglas Kearney (2020)
Winner: Madelyn Garner “Alzheimer’s: A Life Cycle”
Runner-Up: Cameron McGill “The Orphan”
Runner-Up: P.V. Beck “The Fall”
Prose, judged by Danielle Dutton (2019)
Winner: Laura Farnsworth “Carlsbad”
Runner-Up: Kenny Gordon “The Horse that was the Devil”
Poetry, judged by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (2019)
Winner: Mary Morris “Ecosystems of the Arctic Circle”
Runner-Up: Henrietta Goodman “Pelican”
Runner-Up: Kathleen Kilcup “Milk Fog”
Prose, judged by Lily Hoang (2018)
Winner: Alison Brimley “Thin Walls”
Runner-Up: Rachel Levy “Thief”
Runner-Up: jess nieberg “Take with Water”
Poetry, judged by Bob Hicok (2018)
Winner: Hollie Dugas “A Woman’s Confession #5,162”
Runner-Up: Tyler Goldman “Poeta Cullei”
Runner-Up: Madelyn Garner “A Kind of Knowing”
Prose, judged by Brian Evenson (2017)
Winner: Kathleen J. Woods “When You Are Thus Changed”
Runner-up: Janice Margolis “21 Days”
Poetry, judged by Mónica de la Torre (2017)
Winner: Aditi Machado “The Emporium”
Runner-Up: Michael Martin Shea “And The Descriptions of the Field Were Gruesome”
Prose, judged by Lucy Corin (2016)
Winner: Claire Meuschke “an iridescent stone I don’t recall the name of”
Runner-Up: Lawrence Lenhart “From Of No Ground: Apocryphal Biographies of the Small Island States“
Poetry, judged by Oliver de la Paz (2016)
Winner: Iris Moulton “Adsila, Wyoming”
Runner-Up: Benjamin Blackhurst “Self-Portrait as a Detail in Some Landscape”
Photo by John Fowler, “Stars over Butte” (A time-lapse taken from the Valley of the Gods, Bears Ears National Monument).