The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose.
The Adroit Prizes are awarded annually to two students of secondary or undergraduate status. We’re fortunate to receive exceptional work from emerging writers in high school and college, and the best of the best will be recognized by the Adroit Prizes.
Winners:
Kinsale Drake | Poetry | Yale University | 2023
Kelly Hui | Prose – Fiction | University of Chicago | 2024
Finalists:
Diya Abbas | Poetry | University of Wisconsin – Madison | 2026
Ash Anderson | Poetry | Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | 2024
Victor Beck | Poetry | Brown University | 2024
Christian Butterfield | Poetry | Western Kentucky University | 2025
Jewel Cao | Poetry | University of Toronto | 2026
Robert Gao | Prose – Fiction | University Laboratory High School | 2025
Hannah He | Prose – CNF | Livingston High School | 2024
Taylor Ingrassia | Prose – Fiction | Rollins College | 2024
Fiker Girma Negash | Poetry | Harvard University | 2024
Celeste Nguyen | Prose – Fiction | Burlington High School | 2025
Madeleine Song | Prose – CNF | University of Pennsylvania | 2024
Dilara Sümbül | Prose – CNF | University of California – Berkeley | 2026
Grace Wang | Poetry | Harvard University | 2024
Andrew Yuan | Prose – Fiction | Phillips Exeter Academy | 2024
Semifinalists:
Cathleen Balid | Prose – Fiction | The Mary Louis Academy | 2024
Dia Bhojwani | Prose – Fiction | JBCN International School | 2023
Matthew Buxton | Poetry | Emory University | 2023
Renee Chen | Prose – Fiction | Taipei Fuhsing Private School | 2025
Eliza Gilbert | Poetry | Vassar College | 2025
Yong-Yu Huang | Poetry | Northwestern University | 2026
Andrew Kang | Prose – Other | Gilman School | 2023
Bela Koschalk | Poetry | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 2026
Halianna Leland | Prose – Other | Albuquerque Academy | 2023
Yingqi Lu | Prose – CNF | YK Pao School | 2025
Emily Pickering | Poetry | Interlochen Arts Academy | 2024
Heather Qin | Prose – Fiction | Ridge High School | 2024
Madeleine Song | Prose – CNF | University of Pennsylvania | 2024
Lakshmi Sunder | Prose – Fiction | Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | 2023
Evan Wang | Poetry | Upper Merion High School | 2025
Chloe Wong | Poetry | Arcadia High School | 2024
Danae Younge | Poetry | Occidental College | 2024
Commended:
Sarah Aziz | Prose – Fiction | Loreto College, Kolkata | 2024
Ava Chen | Poetry | Phillips Academy Andover | 2024
Gospel Chinedu | Poetry | College Of Health Sciences, Okofia | 2025
Ahmed Elsayed | Poetry | Whitman College | 2023
Clari (Mars) Gao | Prose – Fiction | University of California Irvine | 2024
Zoe Goldstein | Prose – Fiction | Oberlin College | 2025
Aliyyah Hamid | Prose – Fiction | Syosset Senior High School | 2024
Dan Harrison | Poetry | Plymouth State University | 2024
Max Hunt | Prose – CNF | University of Mississippi | 2024
Flourish Joshua | Poetry | University of Lagos | 2027
Beatrix Kim | Poetry | The Pennington School | 2023
Logan Klutse | Poetry | Yale University | 2023
Mya Koffie | Poetry | Princeton University | 2027
YeonWoo Kook | Prose – Fiction | Greenwich High School | 2025
Rachel Lapides | Poetry | Swarthmore College | 2023
Kyo Lee | Prose – CNF | Laurel Heights Secondary School | 2025
Michelle Lin | Poetry | Kenyon College | 2023
Aishwarya Marathe | Prose – Other | Portland State University | 2023
Kiran Masroor | Poetry | Yale University | 2023
Bella Moses | Poetry | Hamilton College | 2023
Emma Nguyen | Prose – CNF | Greenhill School | 2023
Max Pasakorn | Prose – Fiction | Amherst College | 2024
Paige Passantino | Poetry | Smith College | 2023
Eamonn Shults | Prose – CNF | Utah Valley University | 2025
Kayla Simon | Poetry | University of Connecticut | 2023
A. Simons | Poetry | Bard College | 2026
Maanyata Srikantam | Prose – Other | The Quarry Lane School | 2026
Lina Stanovich | Poetry | Oakland University | 2024
Yasmine Tazi | Prose – Fiction | Phillips Academy | 2024
Grace Thomas | Prose – Fiction | Montgomery Blair High School | 2023
Shreya Vikram | Poetry | Deep Springs College | 2024
Ashley Wang | Poetry | The Lawrenceville School | 2023
Ruoyu Wang | Poetry | Newport High School | 2025
Claire Xu | Prose – Fiction | Richard Montgomery High School | 2024
Maggie Yang | Poetry | York House School | 2024
Ayse Yildirim | Prose – Fiction | University of British Columbia | 2023
Max Zhang | Poetry | Georgetown University | 2023
Stay tuned for next year’s Adroit Prizes, which will open in early spring 2024!
