2020 Contest Winners Are Here

We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2020 contests! The winners have all been published on our Prize Winners page. Thank you to everyone who entered, and everyone who read the many stunning entries we received.

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2020 Contest Winners

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2020 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize

First Place Winner:

• Barbara Camron for “White Box” 

Runner-up:

•  Nick Miller for “Reading in Northern Ireland”

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2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize

First Place:

• Wendy Fontaine for “An Embarrassment of Riches” 

Runner-up:

• Suzanne Roberts for “In Love with the World”

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2020 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize

First Place Winner:

• Don Colburn for “The Thing About Perfection”

Runner-up:

•  Tobias Wray for “The Bloom’s Beauty Is Insistence”

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2020 Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing

Overall First Place: 

•  Jenna Wengler for “Brief Candle” (Young Adult)

Category Winners: 

• Sean McCollum for “We CAN’T Go Outside!” (Picture Book)
• Noah Weisz for “The Midnight Owl of Gumbucket Hill” (Middle Grade)

 

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2020 International Young Writers Prize for High School-Aged Writers: A Special Portfolio

Overall First Place: 

• Katherine Vandermel for “Melody for Light”

The 2020 Honorable Mentions, Poetry:

•  Esther Kim for “dear franny choi”
•  Sylvia Nicholas-Patterson for “to hell with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl”
•  Grace Wang for “Zodiac Year of the Lamb”
•  Annie Cao for “July, 1913”
• Elizabeth Shorkey for “I Want a Brand-New Precedent”

The 2020 Honorable Mentions, Fiction:

•  Katherine Wong for “Abiogenesis”
•  Sydney Alexander “The Narcissist’s Cure for Aging”
•  Onassa Sun for “Theory of Mind”

The 2020 Honorable Mentions, Creative Nonfiction:

•  Samantha Haviland for “Scheduled Epiphany”
• Anya Shukla for “The White Man”
• Duy Quang Mai for  “There is a name for our present tense”

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