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”
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:
FICTION
Lehman—Fiction
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| #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
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| #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
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| #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
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| #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
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| #1 (tie) “Ibis” by Heather Rice |
| #1 (tie) “Mapping America” by Huzaifa Malik |
Mihelcic—Poetry
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| #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
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| #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
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:
AAP/Steinberg Poetry Prize—Adrian Matejka
