GRADUATE AWARDS:

AAP/Steinberg POETRY

Winner: Liza Rose Brady, “On Monarch Butterflies Becoming an Endangered Species”
Runner up: Nikolai Korbich, “Black on Red”

Toby Thompson Prize—NONFICTION

Isabella Luciani, “Year of the Swan”

Toby Thompson Prize—FICTION                                            

Emma Cagle, “Office Slut”

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UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:

FICTION

Lehman—Fiction

#1 “You Always Hurt the One You Love” by Celine Gauge*

#2 “What We Called a Lake” by Shawn Coulter

#3 “To Be a Human Being” by Cindy Rodi

Nichols—Fiction

#1 “The Green-Eyed Turtle in the House of Prayer” by Adaeze Onuoha

#2 “Piotr & The Starushke” by Elianah Parker

#3 “Of Maruchan and Making It” by Ritika Sagar

NONFICTION

Lehman—Nonfiction

#1 “This Is What It Means to Say Poetry in America” by Huzaifa Malik

#2 “Somebody” by Ava Gabrys

#3 “Hot Garbage” by Maria Pavlenko

Nichols—Nonfiction

#1 “People Who Like Birdhouses” by Virginia Lyons

#2 “On Space and Taking it Up” by Rachel Wozniak

#3 “Petrichor” by Anushka Rajmohan

POETRY

Lehman—Poetry

#1 (tie) “Ibis” by Heather Rice

#1 (tie) “Mapping America” by Huzaifa Malik

Mihelcic—Poetry

#1 “Poem eighteen” by Carly Schwalm**

#2 “To Live in the Borderlands” by Clio Roker

#3 “Self Portrait with the Graffiti on my Walk Home” by Jonathan Krystopolski

#4 “a separation”  by Celine Gauge*

Cranage—Poetry

#1 “The Back Room Window” by Leah Davis

#2 “Ode to Teenage Girl” by Katie Dallas

#3 “A long, clear mirror hangs on a blank wall” by Jacob Johanson

All winners are from University Park, unless otherwise noted:
* Erie–The Behrend College
**Lehigh Valley

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JUDGES FOR 2023 WRITING CONTESTS:

Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards:

Poetry: Adriana Socoski (Cranage) and Abby Minor (Lehman & Mihelcic)
Fiction: Adam Lupo (Nichols) and Charity Ketz (Lehman)
Nonfiction: Elizabeth Foulke (Nichols) and Russell Frank (Lehman)

Graduate Creative Writing Awards:

Toby Thompson Prizes:

• • Nonfiction: Verna Kale
  • Fiction: Steven Sherrill

AAP/Steinberg Poetry Prize—Adrian Matejka