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. Our 2026 submission window will be from April 1 through May 1.
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All secondary and undergraduate students are eligible, including international students and students who have graduated a semester early (in this case, in December 2025). Each poetry submission may include up to five poems (maximum of ten pages single-spaced). Each prose submission may include up to three works of fiction or creative nonfiction (combined word limit of 3,500 words; excerpts are acceptable).
Each student may send up to five separate submissions for the Adroit Prize for Poetry (each with up to five poems) and up to five separate submissions for the Adroit Prize for Prose (each with up to three works of prose), totaling ten separate submissions.
Poems and prose pieces included in submissions may be sent to other contests and publications as well (but please disclose simultaneously submitted work in your cover letter), and may have been previously recognized by other organizations and/or featured in campus-wide publications. If work under consideration is accepted elsewhere, submitters should reach out promptly by adding a note to the corresponding submission on Submittable.
All submitted poems and prose pieces will be considered for publication in the Adroit Journal.
Winners will be awarded $200, and their work—along with the work of runners-up—will be featured in the Adroit Journal. Runners-up and finalists will receive a copy of the judges’ latest book.
To accommodate this while offering free online issues, we have set a non-refundable submission fee of $15. If you require financial assistance, please download this form and follow the instructions.
Please direct any questions to editors@theadroitjournal.org.
Danez Smith (Poetry) is the author of four poetry collections: [insert] boy, Don’t Call Us Dead, Homie, and, most recently, Bluff. They are also the curator of Blues In Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes. For their work, Danez was won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, as well as an array of grants, fellowships, and residencies including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Princeton Arts Fellowship. Danez lives in the Twin Cities with their people and teaches at the Randolph College MFA program and the Black Youth Healing Arts Center in St. Paul, MN.
Aria Aber (Prose) was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the United States. Her first novel GOOD GIRL is was published from Hogarth (US) in 2024 and Bloomsbury (UK) in 2025, and will be translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, and Japanese. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and graduate student at USC, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Raised speaking Farsi and German, she writes in her third language, English. She serves as the poetry editor of Amulet, as a contributing editor at The Yale Review, and works as an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Aber divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn.
2025 Adroit Prize Winners:
Nikhe Braimah | Poetry | Yale University | 2025
Annie Zhu | Prose – Fiction | Westwood High School | 2026
Nikhe Braimah is a Nigerian-American poet based in New York City and originally hailing from the Bay Area. He is a graduate of Yale University and his work has previously been featured in Yale Literary Magazine.
Annie Zhu is a writer from Texas. Her work has been recognized by the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, The Words Faire, and more. She is an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and serves on the editorial team at E&GJ Press. When not writing, she enjoys baking ambitious desserts and playing the cello.
2025 Adroit Prize Runners-Up:
Kaya Dierks | Prose – Fiction | Yale University | 2025
Eliza Gilbert | Poetry | Vassar College | 2025
Eliza Gilbert | Prose – Fiction | Vassar College | 2025
2025 Adroit Prize Finalists:
Ali Choudhary | Poetry | Newcastle University | 2027
Hannah Han | Prose – Fiction | Yale University | 2025
Sarah Lao | Poetry | Harvard University | 2025
Asyl Ospan | Prose – Fiction | Interlochen Arts Academy | 2025
Munira Tabassum Ahmed | Prose – CNF/Memoir | The University of New South Wales | 2028
Audrey Tang | Prose – Fiction | University of Michigan | 2025
Elyse Thomas | Poetry | Yale University | 2025
Sarah Voss | Prose – Fiction | University of Nebraska – Omaha | 2028
Genevieve Watson | Poetry | Harvard-Westlake School | 2027
Ziyi Yan | Poetry | Princeton University | 2028
Cyne Jarvis Zarceno | Poetry | University of San Carlos | 2028
2025 Adroit Prize Semifinalists:
Miriam Alex | Prose – Fiction | Cornell University | 2025
Abigail Bailey | Poetry | Marshwood High School | 2026
Annabelle Baird | Prose – Fiction | Barnard College | 2026
Ava Chen | Poetry | Princeton University | 2028
Devon Davila | Prose – Fiction | University of St. Andrews | 2026
Priya Ele | Prose – Fiction | New York University | 2025
Marilyn Gates | Poetry | Kenyon College | 2026
Lee Hatsumi Mayer | Prose – Fiction | Goldsmiths, University of London | 2026
Naomi Hsu | Prose – CNF/Memoir | Carlmont High School | 2026
Anthony Imm | Poetry | University of Pennsylvania | 2028
Amber Lin | Poetry | TVT Community Day School | 2026
Victoria Tang | Prose – Fiction | Choate Rosemary Hall | 2027
Evan Wang | Poetry | Upper Merion Area High School | 2025
Ali Ximines | Poetry | University of North Florida | 2026
Alena Zeng | Poetry | University of Chicago | 2025
Allison Zhang | Prose – CNF/Memoir | Polytechnic School | 2026
Click here to view our 2025 Adroit Prizes Commendations.
Can you explain the guideline about “sending up to five packets of poetry or prose” further?
Answer: Yes! Each entrant may submit a max of ten packets of work for Adroit Prizes consideration: five for the Adroit Prize for Poetry and five for the Adroit Prize for Prose. Each of these packets may contain either up to six poems or up to three pieces of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction, up to 3,500 total words combined). For example, Student A might wish to send four packets of six poems and one 2,000-word creative nonfiction piece. Student B might wish to send a packet of three flash fiction pieces, three 3,500-word stories (one in each of three packets), and one creative nonfiction piece. And so on!
Are pieces submitted together judged together, or is each piece submitted judged individually?
Answer: Each piece within a packet is judged individually. Your packets do not have to revolve around a character, theme, or voice.
Can I submit previously published/accepted work?
Answer: Depends. You can submit unpublished work, work published by a campus-distributed magazine (for example, a high school or college/university’s campus publication), or work recognized/awarded by say a contest but not published. You cannot submit previously published work in a nationally- or internationally-distributed magazine.
I submitted a piece to the journal recently. Am I allowed to submit the same piece to the contest? What about a different/new piece?
Answer: Yes. You are, in both cases! We look forward to considering your Prize submission(s).
I have poems and pieces of prose to send. Can I send them in the same entry/submission?
Answer: No. Please send up to five poems together in one entry and then you may also send up to three pieces of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction, up to 3,500 total words combined) — or vice versa.
Do you accept pieces that employ other languages in them, or photo essays?
Answer: Yes (x2). We look forward to reading what you’ve got.
Should I withdraw work that is accepted elsewhere while under Adroit Prize consideration?
Answer: Yes. Please withdraw by adding a note to your submission, making sure to use the “Messages” tab of Submittable.
2024 Adroit Prize Winners:
Rosie Hong | Prose – Fiction | Clements High School | 2025
Melanie Zhou | Poetry | Stanford University | 2024
Rosie Hong is a writer from Houston, Texas. A YoungArts Winner with Distinction and Scholastic Gold Medalist, her work is published or forthcoming in Rust & Moth, Eucalyptus Lit, and others. She serves as an editor-in-chief for Fleeting Daze Magazine.
Melanie Zhou studied computer science and poetry at Stanford University. She was a Stanford Levinthal Tutorial scholar and a recipient of the New York State Summer Writers Institute scholarship.
2024 Adroit Prize Runners-Up:
Vivian DeRosa | Prose – Fiction | Smith College | 2024
Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong | Poetry | Columbia University | 2024
2024 Adroit Prize Finalists:
Thia Bian | Poetry | Princeton University | 2025
Courtney Bill | Prose – Fiction | University of Victoria | 2025
Mackenzie Duan | Poetry | Dougherty Valley High School | 2024
Isabelle Edgar | Poetry | Stanford University | 2024
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey | Prose – Fiction | Reed College | 2024
Annabel Li | Prose – Fiction | Handsworth Secondary School | 2024
Blu Mehari | Poetry | Bennington College | 2026
Renee Morales | Poetry | Columbia University | 2025
Vanessa Niu | Poetry | Special Music School | 2025
Emily Pedroza | Prose – CNF/Memoir | Lynbrook High School | 2025
Miye Sugino | Prose – CNF/Memoir | Yale University | 2026
Chloe Wong | Poetry | Arcadia High School | 2024
Josephine Wu | Prose – Fiction | Georgetown University | 2024
2024 Adroit Prize Semifinalists:
Eli Apple | Poetry | Vanderbilt University | 2024
Gem Arbogast | Poetry | University of Washington | 2026
Iris Cai | Poetry | The Harker School | 2025
Cynthia Gan | Prose – Fiction | Columbia University | 2025
Micah Grotegut | Poetry | Utah Valley University | 2024
Chelsea Guo | Prose – Fiction | Lynbrook High School | 2026
Yong-Yu Huang | Poetry | Northwestern University | 2026
Elane Kim | Prose – Fiction | Harvard University | 2027
Merrik Moriarty | Prose – Fiction | Charleston County School of the Arts | 2024
Roberto Osorio | Poetry | University of California – Santa Cruz | 2024
Aman Rahman | Poetry | Stony Brook University | 2025
Rebecca Ritchey | Prose – CNF/Memoir | Hunter College | 2025
Maanyata Srikantam | Prose – CNF/Memoir | The Quarry Lane School | 2026
Audrey Tan | Prose – CNF/Memoir | Pullman High School | 2025
Click here to view our 2024 Adroit Prizes Commendations.
Winners:
Kinsale Drake | Poetry | Yale University, ’23
Kelly Hui | Prose – Fiction | University of Chicago, ’24
Finalists:
Diya Abbas | Poetry | University of Wisconsin – Madison, ’26
Ash Anderson | Poetry | Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, ’24
Victor Beck | Poetry | Brown University, ’24
Christian Butterfield | Poetry | Western Kentucky University, ’25
Jewel Cao | Poetry | University of Toronto, ’26
Robert Gao | Prose – Fiction | University Laboratory High School, ’25
Hannah He | Prose – CNF | Livingston High School, ’24
Taylor Ingrassia | Prose – Fiction | Rollins College, ’24
Fiker Girma Negash | Poetry | Harvard University, ’24
Celeste Nguyen | Prose – Fiction | Burlington High School, ’25
Madeleine Song | Prose – CNF | University of Pennsylvania, ’24
Dilara Sümbül | Prose – CNF | University of California – Berkeley, ’26
Grace Wang | Poetry | Harvard University, ’24
Andrew Yuan | Prose – Fiction | Phillips Exeter Academy, ’24
Semifinalists:
Cathleen Balid | Prose – Fiction | The Mary Louis Academy, ’24
Dia Bhojwani | Prose – Fiction | JBCN International School, ’23
Matthew Buxton | Poetry | Emory University, ’23
Renee Chen | Prose – Fiction | Taipei Fuhsing Private School, ’25
Eliza Gilbert | Poetry | Vassar College, ’25
Yong-Yu Huang | Poetry | Northwestern University, ’26
Andrew Kang | Prose – Other | Gilman School, ’23
Bela Koschalk | Poetry | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ’26
Halianna Leland | Prose – Other | Albuquerque Academy, ’23
Yingqi Lu | Prose – CNF | YK Pao School, ’25
Emily Pickering | Poetry | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’24
Heather Qin | Prose – Fiction | Ridge High School, ’24
Madeleine Song | Prose – CNF | University of Pennsylvania, ’24
Lakshmi Sunder | Prose – Fiction | Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, ’23
Evan Wang | Poetry | Upper Merion High School, ’25
Chloe Wong | Poetry | Arcadia High School, ’24
Danae Younge | Poetry | Occidental College, ’24
Click here to view our 2023 Adroit Prizes Commendations.
Winners:
Ethan Luk | Poetry | Princeton University, ‘24
Nandita Naik | Fiction | Stanford University, ‘23
Runners-Up:
Natalie Jarrett | Poetry | Northwestern University, ‘23
Sofia Miller | Creative Nonfiction | Denison University, ‘25
Finalists:
Alejandro Derieux Cerezo | Poetry | University of Michigan, ‘22
Eliza Gilbert | Poetry | Vassar College, ‘25
Renny Gong | Fiction | Columbia University, ‘24
Elane Kim | Fiction | Stanford Online High School, ‘23
Daniel Liu | Creative Nonfiction | Lake Highland Preparatory School, ‘23
Daniel Liu | Poetry | Lake Highland Preparatory School, ‘23
Briana Lu | Creative Nonfiction | Southridge School, ‘23
Olga Musial | Fiction | 33 Copernicus Bilingual High School, ‘23
Isabel Prioleau | Poetry | Yale University, ‘25
Amy Wang | Poetry | Westview High School, ‘23
Caroline Wu | Fiction | Upper Arlington High School, ‘23
Eric Yip | Poetry | University of Cambridge, ‘24
Semifinalists:
Hannah Keziah Agustin | Creative Nonfiction | University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, ‘22
Darius Atefat-Peckham | Poetry | Harvard University, ‘23
Dana Blatte | Poetry | Hamilton College, ‘26
Savannah Bradley | Fiction | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ‘22
Jewel Cao | Poetry | Crofton House School, ‘22
Zelda Godsey-Kellogg | Fiction | University of Pennsylvania, ‘25
Sabrina Guo | Poetry | Syosset High School, ‘23
Lauren Hakimi | Creative Nonfiction | CUNY Hunter College, ‘22
Virginia Kane | Poetry | Kenyon College, ‘22
Sherice Kong | Fiction | Ridge High School, ‘23
Kalivyn Marquix | Poetry | Louisiana State University, ‘22
Lana Reeves | Poetry | Harvard University, ‘23
Emma Reilly | Fiction | University of Virginia, ‘24
Simone Reid | Poetry | University of Richmond, ‘23
Sofia Sears | Creative Nonfiction | University of Pennsylvania, ‘23
Yvanna Vien Tica | Poetry | Faith Academy, ‘22
Olivia Treynor | Fiction | Barnard College, ‘23
Aaron Zhang | Poetry | Lakeside School, ‘23
Click here for the 2022 Commended Winners List.
Poetry: Stephanie Chang: “Lotus Flower Kingdom”, selected by Carl Phillips.
Runner Up: Delilah Silberman | Bennington College, ’21.
Prose: Enshia Li: “Watching The Voice of China with My Mother at 13″, selected by Samantha Hunt.
Runner Up: Amal Haddad | Swarthmore College, ’22.
Finalists:
Aluna Brogdon | Fiction | Williams College, ‘26
Eliza Browning | Poetry | Wheaton College, ‘22
David Emeka | Fiction | The Federal University of Technology – Owerri, ‘21
Aidan Forster | Fiction | Brown University, ‘22
Jack Goodman | Poetry | Walter Payton College Preparatory School, ‘22
Sharon Lin | Poetry | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ‘21
Sofia Montrone | Fiction | Columbia University, ‘21
Jackson Neal | Poetry | University of Wisconsin – Madison, ‘23
Ngoc Pham | Poetry | Macalester College, ‘21
Kit Pyne-Jaeger | Fiction | Cornell University, ‘21
Clara Rosarius | Fiction | Oberlin College, ‘23
Kyle Wang | Poetry | Stanford University, ‘22
Semifinalists:
Imani Benberry | Fiction | Columbia University, ‘21
Matilda Lin Berke | Poetry | Wellesley College, ‘21
Jewel Cao | Poetry | Crofton House School, ’22
Krystle DiCristofalo | Fiction | Columbia University, ‘23
Ai Li Feng | Fiction | Thetford Academy, ‘24
Maria Gray | Poetry | Bates College, ’23
Bianca Layog | Poetry | Interlochen Arts Academy, ‘21
Alejandro Lucero | Poetry | University of Colorado – Denver, ‘22
Sarah Fathima Mohammed | Poetry | The Harker School, ‘23
Paz O’Farrell | Fiction | Pitzer College, ‘22
Kyle Okeke | Poetry | University of Houston, ‘22
Anthony Okpunor | Poetry | University of Benin, ‘22
Cole Pragides | Fiction | University of Colorado – Boulder, ‘22
Y.A. Suh | Nonfiction | Glen Rock High School, ‘21
Abigail Sylvor Greenberg | Nonfiction | Yale University, ‘25
Conor Truax | Fiction | University of Waterloo, ‘22
Click here for the 2021 Commended Winners List.
Poetry: Tariq Thompson: “On Their Birthday, Suge Knight & My Daddy Discuss Forgiveness”, selected by Jericho Brown.
Runner Up: Stephanie Chang | Kenyon College, ’25.
Prose: Yasmeen Khan: “Valley of Saints”, selected by Kristen Arnett.
Runner Up: Coral Bello-Martinez | Franklin & Marshall College, ’20.
Finalists:
Gerardo Azpiri | Poetry | Bennington College, ‘23
Julia Bohm | Nonfiction | Colorado College, ‘22
Leyla Çolpan | Poetry | University of Pittsburgh, ‘20
Elliot Connors | Nonfiction | Yale University, ‘20
Kaya Dierks | Fiction | The Branson School, ‘21
Sophia Marusic | Fiction | Princeton University, ‘21
Edward Moreta Jr. | Poetry | Kenyon College, ‘22
Sophie Paquette | Nonfiction | Columbia University, ‘23
Madeleine Pulman-Jones | Poetry | University of Cambridge, ‘21
Kit Pyne-Jaeger | Fiction | Cornell University, ‘20
Grace Wang | Poetry | Columbus North High School, ‘20
Alex Zhang | Poetry | Columbia University, ‘20
Semifinalists:
Lukas Bacho | Fiction | University High School, ‘20
Matilda Berke | Poetry | Wellesley College, ‘21
Charlie Blodnieks | Poetry | Columbia University, ’21
Julia Bohm | Poetry | Colorado College, ‘22
Darnell (“DeeSoul”) Carson | Poetry | Stanford University, ‘21
Yue Chen | Poetry | Williams College, ‘22
Luke Coombs Misiak | Poetry | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ‘20
Mayah DeMartino | Fiction | Western Washington University, ‘21
Lane Devers | Nonfiction | Interlochen Arts Academy, ‘21
Mosab Hamid | Other/Hybrid Prose | Wesleyan University, ‘23
Charlie Lee | Fiction | Yale University, ‘20
Zain Murdock | Poetry | Columbia University, ‘22
Deon Robinson | Poetry | Susquehanna University, ‘20
Nora Wagner | Fiction | College Preparatory School, ‘23
Nancy Walecki | Fiction | Yale University, ‘21
Grace Wynter | Fiction | Yale University, ‘20
Click here for the 2020 Commended Winners List.
Poetry: Fiona Stanton: “The Devout Childhood of St. Elizabeth of Hungary”, selected by Franny Choi.
Runner Up: Daniel Blokh | Alabama School of Fine Arts, ’19
Prose: Angelo Hernandez-Sias: “Gift”, selected by Jamel Brinkley.
Runner Up: Jason Lalljee | University of Chicago, ’20
Finalists:
Via Bleidner | Fiction | University of California – Santa Barbara, ’21
Lucy Catlett | Poetry | University of Virginia, ’19
Amelia Chen | Fiction | Williams College, ’22
Yujane Chen | Poetry | University of California – Berkeley, ’20
Lexi Covalsen | Fiction | Oglethorpe University, ’20
Grace Gilbert | Poetry | State University of New York – Geneseo, ’19
Becca Lambright | Nonfiction | University of Pennsylvania, ’19
Annalise Lozier | Poetry | Yale University, ’21
Brennan Sprague | Poetry | Monroe Community College, ’20
Bianca Zhou | Fiction | Emory University, ’22
Semifinalists:
Anna Butcher | Fiction | Alabama School of Fine Arts, ’19
Ethan Chua | Poetry | Stanford University, ’20
Alex Clifford | Fiction | Charleston County School of the Arts, ’20
Bailey Cohen | Poetry | New York University, ’20
Vivian DeRosa | Fiction | Communications High School, ’19
Taylor Fang | Poetry | Logan High School, ’20
Sarah Feng | Poetry | Pinewood School, ’20
Ava Goga | Poetry | Smith College, ’20
Sabine Holzman | Poetry | Orange County School of the Arts (Gap Year), ’19
Eileen Huang | Poetry | Yale University, ’22
Angela Hui | Fiction | Harvard University, ’20
Yasmeen Khan | Fiction | Grand Oaks High School, ’22
Sarah Lao | Poetry | The Westminster Schools, ’21
Natalie Love | Nonfiction | Phillips Exeter Academy, ’19
Sahara Sidi | Nonfiction | Wesleyan University, ’22
Thomas Waddill | Fiction | Davidson College, ‘19
Poetry: Theis Anderson: “Three Fields to Leave You”, selected by Alex Dimitrov.
Runner Up: Lauren Sanderson | Colgate University, ’18
Prose: Polina Solovyeva: “Bug Murder”, selected by Rachel Heng.
Runner Up: Sarah Feng | Pinewood School, ’20
Finalists:
Matilda Berke | Poetry | Wellesley College, ’21
Julia Bohm | Fiction | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’18
Andre Bouyssounouse | Fiction | University of California – Santa Barbara, ’21
Becca Lambright | Nonfiction | University of Pennsylvania, ’20
Kalvin Marquiz | Poetry | Baton Rouge Magnet High School, ’18
Katherine Pyne-Jaeger | Poetry | Cornell University, ’20
Jeddie Sophronius | Poetry | Western Michigan University, ’18
Nikki Velletri | Poetry | Mount Saint Charles Academy, ’19
Semifinalists:
Ellie Black | Poetry | Hendrix College, ’18
Allison Boyce | Fiction | Vanderbilt University, ’20
Bronwen Brenner | Fiction | Baruch College Campus High School, ’19
Stephanie Chang | Poetry | Richmond Christian Secondary School, ’20
Imani Davis | Poetry | University of Pennsylvania, ’20
Amanda Hodes | Poetry | American University, ’19
Sabine Holzman | Poetry | Orange County School of the Arts, ‘18
Max Hunt | Fiction | Northpoint Christian School, ’18
Seth Kirby | Fiction | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’20
Maggie O’Brien | Fiction | Colorado College, ’19
Selina Wang | Poetry | Simon Fraser University, ’19
Lily Zhou | Poetry | Aragon High School, ’18
Poetry: Safwan Khatib: “Empire with a Harp Inside It”, selected by Safiya Sinclair.
Runner Up: Christina Im | Sunset High School, ’18
Prose: Charity Young: “Sabratha”, selected by Allegra Hyde.
Runner Up: Aidan Forster | SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, ’18
Finalists:
Olivia Alger | Fiction | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’17
Aidan Forster | Poetry | SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, ’18
Julia Gourary | Fiction | The Nightingale-Bamford School, ’17
Adam Hamze | Poetry | University of Texas – Austin, ’17
Angelo Hernandez-Sias | Fiction | Columbia University, ’20
Alisha Yi | Poetry | Edward W. Clark High School, ’18
Zuyi Zhao | Poetry | The Benjamin School, ’17
Joyce Zhou | Poetry | Neuqua Valley High School, ’18
Lily Zhou | Poetry | Aragon High School, ’18
Semifinalists:
Colin Bailes | Poetry | University of Central Florida, ‘17
Michelle Chen | Nonfiction | Hunter College High School, ‘17
Annabelle Crowe | Poetry | Homeschool, ‘17
Reuben Gelley Newman | Poetry | The Dalton School, ‘17
torrin a. greathouse | Poetry | University of California – Irvine, ‘18
Jacqueline He | Poetry | The Harker School, ‘18
Noor Hindi | Poetry | University of Akron, ‘17
Savannah Horton | Fiction | Bowdoin College, ‘17
Cassandra Hsiao | Poetry | Orange County School of the Arts, ‘17
Eileen Huang | Poetry | High Technology High School, ‘18
Diana Khong | Fiction | Burncoat High School, ‘18
Enshia Li | Fiction | Bayview Secondary School, ‘18
Alison Liu | Fiction | Rice University, ‘18
Anika Prakash | Poetry | West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, ‘19
Ashira Shirali | Fiction | The Shri Ram School – Aravali, ‘18
Andy Sia | Poetry | Colgate University, ‘17
Irina Teveleva | Poetry | Columbia University, ‘17
Bradley Trumpfheller | Poetry | Emerson College, ‘18
Kirstin Wu Latimer | Poetry | University of Oxford, ‘18
Poetry: Rachel Cruea: “The Yellow Marrow Doesn’t Matter,” selected by Corey Van Landingham.
Runner Up: Theophilus Kwek: Three Poems
Prose: Brynne Rebele-Henry: “from The Glass House,” selected by Kevin Moffett.
Runner Up: Walker Caplan: “Elephants”
Honorable Mentions:
Christina Im | Poetry | Sunset High School, ’18
Jessica Li | Fiction | Livingston High School, ’16
Polina Solovyeva | Fiction | The Hotchkiss School, ’16
Scott Stevens | Poetry | Menlo School, ’16
Sophie van Waardenberg | Fiction | University of Auckland, ’18
Christian Wessels | Poetry | State University of New York at Brockport, ’16
Editors’ List:
Adam Berman | Fiction | Princeton University, ’18
Morgan Blalock | Poetry | Hollins University, ’16
Maddie Clevenstine | Poetry | SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, ’16
Helli Fang | Poetry | Walnut Hill School for the Arts, ’16
Aidan Forster | Poetry | Fine Arts Center, ’18
Mitchell Glazier | Poetry | West Virginia University, ’17
Ashley Gong | Poetry | Newtown High School, ’16
Alex Greenberg | Poetry | Ethical Culture Fieldston School, ’17
Jaclyn Grimm | Fiction | Lake Highland Preparatory School, ’17
Kathryn Hargett | Poetry | Alabama School of Fine Arts, ’17
Michal Leibowitz | Poetry | Stanford University, ’19
Elizabeth Lemieux | Fiction | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’17
Alison Liu | Fiction | Rice University, ’18
A. E. Long | Poetry | LaSwap Sixth Form, ’16
Annalise Lozier | Poetry | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’17
George Lubitz | Fiction | Skidmore College, ’17
Grant McClure | Nonfiction | Wofford College, ’19
Meg Millure | Poetry | University of Pittsburgh, ’18
Alexa Perlmutter | Fiction | National Cathedral School, ’17
Kathleen Radigan | Poetry | Wesleyan University, ’17
Ben Read | Poetry | Lewis and Clark High School, ’17
Brynne Rebele-Henry | Poetry | Homeschool, ’17
Max Seifert | Poetry | University of Iowa, ’16
Anna Sheppard | Poetry | SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, ’16
Serena Solin | Poetry | Columbia University, ’16
Erin Stoodley | Poetry | El Camino High School at Ventura College, ’16
Christina Sun | Fiction | University of Massachusetts – Amherst, ’16
Smriti Verma | Poetry | Apeejay School, ’16
Charity Young | Fiction | Union High School, ’16
Alex Zhang | Poetry | Phillips Exeter Academy, ’16
Emily Zhang | Poetry | Richard Montgomery High School, ’16
Poetry: Ian Burnette: “dear radio,” selected by Tarfia Faizullah.
Runner Up: Brynne Rebele-Henry: “Purple”
Prose: Lydia Weintraub: “Feelies,” selected by Alexander Maksik.
Runner Up: John Stegner: “Cleansing”
Honorable Mentions:
Mariel Alonzo | Poetry | University of the Philippines – Diliman, ’16
Sara Henry | Poetry | University of Chicago, ’15
Christina Qiu | Prose | Harvard University, ’19
Maia Rosenfeld | Prose | Brown University, ’19
Emily Zhang | Poetry | Richard Montgomery High School, ’16
Editors’ List:
Rachael Allen | Prose | Bowdoin College, ’18
Mehul Bhagat | Poetry | Emory University, ’18
Nathan Blansett | Poetry | Emory University, ’19
Catherine Brams | Poetry | Middlebury College, ’18
Walker Caplan | Prose | Lakeside School, ’16
Lev Craig | Poetry | Harvard University, ’16
Cu Fleshman | Prose | University of California – Irvine, ’18
Mitchell Glazier | Poetry | West Virginia University, ’17
Ava Goga | Poetry | Robert McQueen High School, ’16
Safwan Khatib | Poetry | Columbia University, ’19
Erin Koehler | Poetry | State University of New York – Geneseo, ’15
Jessica Li | Prose | Livingston High School, ’16
Annalise Lozier | Poetry | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’17
Blaike Marshall | Poetry | College of Charleston, ’17
Grant McClure | Poetry | Wofford College, ’19
Jared Newman | Prose | Yale University, ’19
Lucy Silbaugh | Prose | Abington Friends School, ’16
Jeremy Windham | Poetry | Stephen F. Austin State University, ’15
Poetry: Nathan Durham: “Chevrolet,” selected by Richie Hofmann.
Runner Up: Ian Burnette: “Harvests”
Honorable Mention: Emily Knott: “Elegy Broadcast from the Top of a Radio Tower”
Honorable Mention: Oriana Tang: “Chinese New Year”
Honorable Mention: Maddie Kim: “Mothers in July”
Prose: Isabel DeBre: “Digging,” selected by Wendy Rawlings.
Runner Up: Madeleine Cravens: “Girls and Boys: Growing Up in Four Parts”
Honorable Mention: Dalton Fischer-Linnett: “When Dutch Klaas was Fearless”
Honorable Mention: Frances Saux: “Difficult”
Honorable Mention: Catherine Mosier-Mills: “The Practical Applications of Calculus”
Editors’ List:
Camara Brown | Poetry | University of Pennsylvania, ’17
Alicia Lai | Poetry | Princeton University, ’18
Cheryl Julia Lee | Poetry | Nanyang Technological University, ’14
Emma Lister | Poetry | Colyton Grammar School, ’15
Kyle Michelson | Poetry | Stanford University, ’15
Torn Porter | Prose | Stanford University, ’16
Christina Qiu | Prose | Livingston High School, ’15
AM Ringwalt | Prose | Emerson College, ‘17
Lucy Wainger | Poetry | Stuyvesant High School, ’16
Megan Walters | Prose | Interlochen Arts Academy, ’15
Jay G. Ying | Poetry | University of Edinburgh ’16
Poetry: Shelley Whitaker: “The Fox Den,” selected by Garth Greenwell.
Runner Up: Rainie Oet: “Hookey”
Honorable Mention: Emily Bernard: “My Father, the American Hero”
Honorable Mention: Katherine Frain: “South Carolina”
Honorable Mention: Da’Shawn Mosley: “Because You Expressed Desire, Once, to Be Here”
Prose: Elizabeth Martin: “Too Small Yet,” selected by Marlin Barton.
Runner Up: Lily Fishman: “The Beach”
Honorable Mention: Emily Hittner-Cunningham: “After Looking-Glass”
Honorable Mention: Eric Stiefel: “Ronald Reagan Walks Again”
Honorable Mention: Ashley Zhou: “A Man of Convenience”
Editors’ List:
Yasmin Belkhyr | Poetry | The Garden School, ’14
Kathleen Cole | Prose | University of Chicago, ’17
Caleb Kaiser | Poetry | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ’16
Kayla Krut | Poetry | University of California – Berkeley, ’13
Charles McCrory | Prose | University of Mississippi, ’16
Christina Qiu | Prose | Livingston High School, ’15
Kathleen Radigan | Poetry | Connecticut College, ’17
Iris Samuels | Poetry | Israeli Defense Force
Rachel Stone | Poetry | Princeton University, ’17
Lydia Weintraub | Prose | Saint Ann’s School, ’14
Victoria White | Poetry | Milton Academy, ’14
Poetry: Stephanie Guo: “Clear Tea,” selected by Chloe Honum.
Runner Up: Nicholas Pierce: “After My Mother’s Wedding”
Honorable Mention: Michelle Jia: “Mrs. D”
Honorable Mention: Jessie Li: “Pyrus Pyrifolia”
Honorable Mention: Eliza Moley: “Barcelona”
Prose: Phoebe Nir: “Talia and Kate”.
Runner Up: Flora Collins: “Debbie”
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Ballou: “Medicine Cabinet Confessional”
Honorable Mention: Alina Grabowski: “The Great American Road Trip”
Honorable Mention: Melissa Tolentino: “Reckless”
Editors’ List:
Alexa Derman | Prose | Westfield High School, ’14
Amy Gopinathan | Poetry | Princeton University, ’14
Sara Kassel | Prose | Philadelphia University, ’14
Caroline Kelley | Poetry | Wellesley College, ’16
Katy Li | Poetry | Coppell High School, ’14
Molly McGinnis | Poetry | Boise High School, ’13
Rick Manayan | Poetry | Punahou School, ’13
Sienna Zeilinger | Prose | Brown University, ’15
Tina Zhu | Prose | Shanghai American School, ’13
