Contest Winners

JUDGE: Courtney Faye Taylor

WINNER

Adrie Rose, Rupture

FINALISTS

JUDGE: K-Ming Chang

WINNER

Kiley McLaughlin, Maw Appears in the Following Forms

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Sarah Minor

WINNER

Jay Acqinas Thompson, The Resurrection Appearances: Fragments of a Daybook

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Taneum Bambrick

WINNER

Asa Drake, One Way to Listen

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Matthew Salesses

WINNER

C.E. Shue, Bridge of Knots

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Daisy Hernández

WINNER

Carolina Margarita, Our Lady of the Little Shoe

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Trace Peterson

WINNER

Cameron Quan Louie, Apology Engine

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Zinzi Clemmons

WINNER

Ursula Villarreal-Moura, Math for the Self-Crippling

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Marcello Hernandez Castillo

WINNER

Boyer Rickel, Morgan (A Lyric)

FINALISTS

JUDGE: Diana Khoi Nguyen

WINNER

Chaelee Dalton, Mother Tongue

FINALISTS

• Jean Yoon, White Guise
  
• Chia-Lun Chang, An Alien Well Tamed
  
• MT Vallarta, A Gesture Toward
  
• Albert McWilliams, Waiting for an Echo
  
• Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah, not without small joys

JUDGE: Myriam Gurba

WINNER

Alejandro Heredia, You’re the Only Friend I Need

FINALISTS

• BMichael Martone, The Winesburg Appendix
  
• Ashley Farmer, Parting Shots
  
• DEmiliyi Koon, Everyone You Know, Everyone You Love, Everyone You Ever Heard Of
  
• Samantha Solis, Keeping Touch
  
• Allison Pinkerton, DM Me if You Want to #Repent

JUDGE: Bhanu Kapil

WINNER

Gabrielle Civil, ( ghost gestures )

FINALISTS

• Megan Milks, The Hooded Figure
  
• Sarah Giragosian, Towards a Poetics of the Animal
  
• Sayuri Ayers, PBeast-Mother
  
• Hannah Stephenson, Nectuary

JUDGE: Tongo Martin-Eisen

WINNER

Angie Sijun Lou, All we ask is you to be happy

FINALISTS

• Hilda Daviz, No One Will Go Searching for Us
  
• Henry Goldkamp, Bad Beach
  
• Florencia Militio, Ituzaingó: Exiles and Reveries
• Reyes Ramirez, Self Portraits

JUDGE: Dodie Bellamy

WINNER

Karen Marron, BASS 1998

FINALISTS

• Bridget Brewer, One or Several Deserts
  
• Sadaf Ferdowsi, The Convention of the Broken Hearted
  
• Danny Nguyen, Engrish Lessons and Other Hookups: Stories
  
• Sammi Skolmoski, Heavy Skepticism Involving Fruit

JUDGES: Eve Ewing & Hanif Abdurraqib

WINNER

M. Delmonico Connolly, Ronnie Spector in Rock Gomorrah

FINALISTS

• Marcus Clayton, Judy Garland in Blackface
  
• Gabrielle Civil, Attitudinal: Black Feminist Meditations on Dance
  
• Romeo Guzman, Pocho Blues
  
• Torrin Greathouse, Notes on the Chronology of a Wound

JUDGE: Safiya Sinclair

WINNER

Alysse Kathleen McCanna, Pentimento

FINALISTS

• Erin Bertram, Gender/Genre
• Herve Comeau, Children of the Downswing
• Asa Drake, Give Up Something Nice
• Wren Hanks, The Rise of Genderqueer
• Elizabeth O’Brien, In the Beginning Was a Search Engine

JUDGE: Danzy Senna

WINNER

Julie Zhou, Generics

FINALISTS

• Chelsea Voulgares, Grab the Sharpest Blade
• Patrick Parr, …Still Here
• Sophia Zaklilkowski, Things You Can’t Sweat Out
• Dwight Yates, Twelve Tales from a Long-Lost Trunk

JUDGE: Maggie Nelson

WINNER

Cassie Donish, On the Mezzanine

FINALISTS

• Ploy Pirapokin, How to Be Extraordinary in America
• Nadia Owusu, So Devilish a Fire
• Katherine Zlabeck, Canary
• Lena Ziegler, Consent After Birth

JUDGE: SARAH VAP

WINNER
F.J. Bergmann, A Catalogue of the Further Suns

FINALISTS

• Desiree Bailey, What Noise Chafing Against the Cane
• Laynie Brown, Everyone and Her Resemblances
  
• Kristi Carter, Daughter Shaman
• Dante Di Stefano, endless duende
• M.J. Gette, dig (absence): and archaeological sequence
• Eve Linn, Album of Not
• Melissa Pulin, Rupture, Light
• Sean Rhys, Fires of Unremarkable Nights
• Haley Sledge, Continuous Arousal/ Nothing to Hear
  
• Ellen Welcker, The Pink Tablet
  

SEMIFINALISTS

Mark Baumer, Big Fern; Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Endearments; John Fry, some people actually inhabit their bodies; Heikki Houtari, You Will See Neutrinos; Kathleen McGookey, Nineteen Letters; Jason Rusch, Problematic Queer Love; Kami Westhoff, Your Body a Bullet; Patrick Willis, Manuel Random Hill; Sarah Ann Winn, Every After End Matter; Devon Wotten, Gimme the Pretty        

JUDGE: VIET THANH NGUYEN

WINNER
Laura S. Distelheim, We

FINALISTS

• Katharine Haake, Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld
• Emily Flamm, Small Territory Fires
  
• James R. Gapinski, Migratory Patterns
• Bownwyn Mauldin, Spartacus Machines
• Wendy Oleson, Floating Rooms

SEMIFINALISTS

Tim Catlow, At the Mercy of Gravity; William Hoffacker, Secret Machines; Richard Krawiec, What We Learn; S Asher Sund, Self-Portrait in B Flat

JUDGE: ANNA JOURNEY

WINNER
Ginny Wiehardt, Migration

FINALISTS

• Desiree Bailey, What Noise Chafing Against the Cane
• Kai Carlson, Wee, Jesse James Days
  
• Noah Falck, You Are in Nearly Every Future
  
• Stuart Greenhouse, Here, In This Orrery
  
• Dina Hardy, Inside My Hat Is A Foreign Body
  
• Patrick Kindig, Boy
  
• Jacob Oet, With Porcupine
  
• Coco Owen, In Vogue
  
• Alexandra Regalado, Land O’
  
• Sean Rys, Red Motel
  

SEMIFINALISTS

Erin Bertram, A Field Guide to the Body in Need; Colleen Coyne, This Document Should Be Retained as Evidence of Your Journey; Courtney Gustafon, Unapology; David Hathwell, Between Dog and Wolf; Roisin Kelly, The Unicorn Children; Patrick Millain, Form; Sarah Montgomery, Leaving Tracks; David Sloan, When Lying Turns True; Donald Welch, Hawaiian Shirts          

JUDGE: DAVID TREUER

WINNER
Sandra Hunter, Small Change

FINALISTS

• Katharine Haake, Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld
• Emily Koon, Everyone You Love, Everyone You Know, Everyone You Ever Heard Of
  
• Meghan Lamb, All of Your Most Private Places
  
• Sara Schaff, Incomplete Like Her
  
• Dennis James Sweeney, The Rolodex Happenings
  

SEMIFINALISTS

Jen Knox, LUNA & Other Stories; Helen McClory, Ritual Stitches, Good Red Wounds; Khristian Mecom, A Catalogue of Our Native Monsters; Harmony Neal, This is What It’s Like to Die

JUDGE: DOUGLAS KEARNEY

WINNER
drea brown, dear girl: a reckoning

HONORABLE MENTION
Cameron Awkward-Rich, Transit
Maggie Queeney, In Pioneer Times and Other Poems 

FINALISTS

• Chen Chen, Kissing the Sphinx
• Dante Di Stefano, Fighting Weather
• Dante Di Stefano, Ill Angels
• LA Johnson, Little Climates
• Julia Maher, On/Off Island
• Erin Mullikin, You Can’t Come Back to This Violet Time
• Christina Olson, Weird Science

SEMIFINALISTS

Ruth Baumann, these tornadoes; Jenn Blair, The Ailing Hotel; Chen Chen, Set the Garden on Fire; Melissa Ginsburg, Analysis; Nathan Kemp, Gnomic Verse; Kevin McLellan, Hemispheres; Erin Rodoni, Rotating Exhibit; Sarah Sousa, If It Weren’t for the Girls with Pocket Knives; Ryan Vine, Rules; Harold Williams, Shape Notes

JUDGE: AIMEE BENDER

WINNER
Anna Kovatcheva, The White Swallow

HONORABLE MENTION
Yu-Han Chao, Writing on the Basement Wall
Dennis James Sweeney, When He Comes Home from the War

FINALISTS

• Nora Brooks, How to Boil an Egg and Other Recipes
• Ivelisse Rodriguez, The Belindas

SEMIFINALISTS

Taira Anderson, The Woman Leaves; Carrie Bennett, Water Ghosts and Other Animals; Emily Kiernan, Todos Vuelven; Jen Knox, Rattle: Three Stories; Harmony Neal, This Is What It’s Like to Die

JUDGE: SUSAN McCABE

WINNER
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Her Human Costume

RUNNER UP
Amie Whittemore, Dream of the Ark

FINALISTS

• Mary-Kim Arnold, Awake, Location
• Jeffrey Bean, Loud God
• Carrie Bennett, The Lost Letters
• Rachel Bennett, Mural Quadrant
• Julia Maher, On/Off Island–A Play in Parts
• Erica Mena, Featherbone
• Robert Perchan, Musing Miss Kim: 19 Prose Poems
• Treasure Redmond, chop: 30 kwanasabas for fannie lou hamer

SEMIFINALISTS

Caroline Crew, Your Stupid Fortune Gives Me Stupid Hope; Adam Crittenden, Alter State; Tara Deal, Living, Etc.; Melissa Holm, Ab. Sin. The; Christopher Munde, Specula; Michael Trocchia, The Fathoming People; Yim Tan Wong, Hypnopompia

JUDGE: TRINIE DALTON

WINNER
Iver Arnegard, Whip and Spur

RUNNER UP
William Kelley Woolfitt, Rattlesnake Springs

FINALISTS

• Tim Catlow, Pulling Children From  A River
• Racquel Goodison, Skin
• Rachel May, The Vermont Studio Center Experiments: A Legend
  

SEMIFINALISTS

Nora Boydston, Object Lesson; Erica Plouffe Lazure, Dry Dock; Sean Lovelace, One Year; Donna Vitucci, twisted. 

JUDGE: MARK IRWIN

WINNER
Jessica Poli, The Egg Mistress

HONORABLE MENTION
Duncan Campbell, Farmstead of the Burning Field
Simone Muench, Trace

FINALISTS

• Carrie Bennet, Animals in Pretty Cages
  
• Bill Carty, The Problems
• Miriam Bird Greenberg, My Own History of Plauges
• Kate Rutledge Jaffe, Coastal Again
• Janet McAdams, The Lookout Book
  
• Cheryl Quimba, Scattered Trees Grow in Some Tundra
• Noel Tague, Etymology of the Word Haunt

SEMIFINALISTS

Rachel Bennett, Mural Quadrant; John Bradley, How to Escape Your Own Tombstone; Jaime Brunton, Opera on TV; Katie Cappello, To Dream of Wolves; Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Thyroid and Other Letters; Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Car Poems; Meg Johnson, The Unfortunate Charisma; Christina Lloyd, In Discrete Places; Steven Salmoni, A Day of Glass (1 – 29); Melissa Severin, if you prefer longitude

JUDGE: DANA JOHNSON

WINNER
Alisa Slaughter, Bad Habitats

RUNNER-UP
Harmony Neal, This Is What It’s Like to Die

FINALISTS

• Timothy Dyke, How to Bear the Weight of Tire Swings
  
• Elizabeth Colen and Carol Guess, The Man On The Bus
  
• Sarah Nance, The Facts of Omission
  

SEMIFINALISTS

John Brown Spiers, It Is Safe For Us To Go To Heaven; Annie Dawid, Jonestown: Thirty Years On; Jeff Fearnside, Accomplices to a Tradition and Other Stories; Avital Gad-Cykman, Minute Life Length; Wayne Lee Gay, Starry Skies; Victoria Kelly, Prayers of an American Wife and Other Stories; Blake Kimzey, Families Among Us; Jen Knox, Ohioans; Jane Liddle, Twilight at the Béguinage; Susan Lin, Goodbye to the Ocean; Dan Moreau, A Tour of North American Ruins; Rena Rossner, Tashlich; Matt Sailor, Vinni Pukh; William Kelley Woolfitt, The Boy with Fire in His Mouth; Jackie Zollo Brooks, Black and White and Other Stories

JUDGE: DAVID ST. JOHN

WINNER
Natalie Peeterse, Black Birds : Blue Horse, An Elegy

HONORABLE MENTION
Bradley Harrison, Diorama of a People, Burning

FINALISTS

• Bill Carty, The Watchtower
• Jamison Crabtree, re[la]ment
• Jamison Crabtree, rough music outside of the vacant body
• Steve Hanson, the point at which forests burn
• Anatoly Molotkov, Your Life as It Is
• Robert Murdock, The Trial of Diurnal Lives
• Mary Elizabeth Parker, The Words for It
• Adrian Potter, A Condensed History of Anger, With Footnotes

SEMIFINALISTS

Brian Blanchfield, The History of Ideas, 1973-2011; Sage Cohen, How to Leave Your Husband; Lesley Jenike, How We Came Ashore; Victoria Moore, Something Almost Necessary; David O’Connell, From the Other Side of the Desk; Stephanie Schlaifer, Upwards; Elizabeth Swann, Port Desire; Judith Terzi, Party Bus; Brian Trimboli, Opera: Asylum; Devon Wootten, Topologies; Laurie Young, Lost Geneticist

JUDGE: PERCIVAL EVERETT

WINNER
Jay Shearer, The Pulpit vs. The Hole

RUNNER-UP
Kyle Winkler, Half At One Another’s Throats

FINALISTS

• Julia Lichtblau, Foreign Service
• Don Peteroy, A World Without Owls
• Aaron Teel, Shampoo Horns

SEMIFINALISTS

Zachary J. George, In This Bowl; Amber Gross, Forget Death; Danny Hoey, Can These Bones Live; Ladee Hubbard, Flip Lady; Alden Jones, La Libertad; Nick Kimbro, Recipes for Hunger; Marylee MacDonald, Foreign Affairs; Barbara Maloutas, The Livery of Ponies; Pat Rushin, This is What I’m Hearing; Glen Shaheen, Unchecked Savagery

JUDGE: CAROL MUSKE-DUKES

WINNER
Heather Aimee O’Neill, Memory Future

HONORABLE MENTION
Bradley Harrison, Diorama of a People, Burning
R.J. Lambert, Pacific Solitaire

FINALISTS

• Carrie Bennet, The Quiet Winter
• Linda Dove, O Dear Deer,
• Nathan Hoks, Glow of the Interior
• Caroline Klocksiem,  Circumstances of the House & Moon
• Barbara Maloutas, Later, Wetness
• Russel Swensen, Santa Ana
• Mark Wagenaar, Self-Portraits & Disappearances

SEMIFINALISTS

Marci Ameluxen, The Daughter Speaks; Callista Buchen, The Bloody Planet; Susana Case, The Tender Thing That Pricks Like A Thorn; Serena Chopra, Penumbra; Edward Frankel, After Spicer; Matthew McBride, Cities Lit by the Waning Moon; Mary Elizabeth Parker, Miss Havisham in Winter; Phillip Sterling, First Service; Rachel Welty, Of Cyrus; Nicole Zdeb, Fiddle the Short Night