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Elliot Shumate
ELINOR BENEDICT POETRY PRIZE
Aiden Heung: House for the Living
Maslen Bode Ward: Jamaica Pond
Adriana Beltrano: America According to Lana Del Rey
RAY VENTRE MEMORIAL NONFICTION PRIZE
Naomi Gordon-Loebl: To Lose It
Molly Bain: CrashBang, A Word Problem
Shane Neilson: The Notebooks of Everything Is Going to Be Alright
SHORT-SHORTS
Kimberly Gibson-Tran: Storm
Krys Malcolm Belc: Top Surgery Triptych
Liam Hegarty: A Cerebral Aneurysm while Walking across a Sandpit in the Park with My Daughter
T.J. Martinson:[Unaired Episode of Blue’s Clues, “What does Blue Want for Lunch?” December 1996]
Scott Waters: Lilac / Someone Else’s Shoes / My Fellow Imposters
Sarah Perrin: Bearing Fruit
Misha Ra: The Magician’s Trick / Managing
Daniel Seifert: To die of plague is not the only way / The Call, The Call / Feeding the machine
Emily Hall: At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base
Katherine Plumhoff: Your Car is a Faraday Cage
Alice Maglio: Hag
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar: Your Gods
Timothy Charles Smith: Sweet Dominion: Ruler of the Bees
Robin Silbergleid: [All my lesbian crushes] / [I measure time by the distance between our encounters] / [The more I don’t see you]
Will Dowd: The Stiff Procession
Hannah Han: Aquaria
Abby Manzella: Sheepskin
Eric Scot Tryon: The Things We Take
FICTION
Lily Osler: Fishflies
Sasha Brown: I Don’t Need Your Whole Life Story
Kinshuk Gupta & Areeb Ahmad (trans.): Love’s Lonely Chase
Hope Henderson: American Robins
Elaine Johanson: The Nun
Andrea Bianchi: The Medicine
Jamie A.M.: Star Eater
Jenna Grieve: Testimony, Spun Sugar
POETRY
Matt Lapata: S’klallam Bay
Karthik Keramalu: The Farm
Talia Isaacson: Georgic: Directive
Fez Avery: I had a lump
Frances Klein: Triptych for Sociology 101
Dylan Bourne: The Rec Center
Alexa Luborsky: Well with duduks (heard two ways) / Well with covenant
Shira Haus: Parable with Bared Teeth
Conan Tan: Postcolonial Man
Paula Reed: Nancarrow / Poetic Fragment of an Alternate History New York State Regents Exam
Connor Beeman: gorge song
Christopher Nelson: Lowercase God
Elisa Luna Ady: Hoax Magic
Rayni K. Wekluk: Land-locked
Mack Rogers: I hope I don’t dream of dying when I die
E.A. Hildebrand: Bog Daddy
Henry Goldkamp: Supply The Demand
Greg Oaks: Tokens / Wolfing It Down
Laurel Roth: Origin of Blue
Hailey Gross: (i want to talk to my mother about her hoarding problem)
Disha Trivedi: love story in question
Siobhan Jean-Charles: Bodies
Sara Hovda: A Father’s Gift
Tom C. Hunley: Lying in a Hammock with James Wright
Jeff Whitney: Another Thing I Never Want to Happen
NONFICTION/HYBRID
Evan Brooke: The Pause
Siew Hii: Work Shoes as Dream, Dream, Ungender
Corrinne Bollendorf: Brickland, California
Cara Martin: hearts from chests, like swords in stones, are not something you can easily put back where you found them
Vaneeza Sohail: Self Portrait in a Hospital
Mariko Nagai: from This Brutal Beauty
Amy DeBellis: Haunting
Claire Hanlon: The Blood Cries Out: An Exhibition Catalog
Kaci Neves: Caring
Rachel Greenley: Origin Stream