2024 AWP Intro Journals Project Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 AWP Intro Journals Project! Winners were selected by Celeste Chan (creative nonfiction), Marcela Fuentes (fiction), and Benin Lemus (poetry). Keep an eye on our social media channels for more details on which issues include the winning pieces.
| 2024 Creative Nonfiction Winner Selected by Celeste Chan |
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| "Speculation" Michael Chapin Davidson College |
Tampa Review |
| "My Identity Is Disputed Territory"Maggie Dressler Penn State University Park |
Reed Magazine |
| "Camden County Folk Medicine" Nina King SannesUniversity of Illinois Urbana–Champaign |
Colorado Review |
| "Buffy Knew Something about the Dark"Beth Ward University of Georgia |
Iron Horse Literary Review |
| 2024 Fiction Winners Selected by Marcela Fuentes |
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| "Blair"Simon Graham University of Washington–Seattle |
Puerto del Sol |
| "El Luchador"Natalia MartinezFlorida International University | Mid-American Review |
| "Mother to Mother"Rashmitha Muniandi University of Massachusetts |
Hayden’s Ferry Review |
| "Jonquil"Hanna Reynditskiy College of Charleston |
Quarterly West |
| 2024 Poetry Winners Selected by Benin Lemus |
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| "Work Experience"Claire BeneventoUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City | Tampa Review |
| "Messenger from the Sea God’s Palace"Em BoberUniversity of Montana | Mid-American Review |
| "Threnody Humming during Dinnertime"Jordan E. FranklinBinghamton University | Hayden’s Ferry Review |
| "Ode to Kisses"Hailey GrossSan Diego State University | Iron Horse Literary Review |
| "Gallery Girl" Jules Miller University of North Carolina Wilmington |
Quarterly West |
| "pulling"Nyds RiveraRowan University | Colorado Review |
| "The Telugu Word for Home Sounds like Illness"Tejaswini Sudhakar Indiana University |
Reed Magazine |
| "Broken Sonnet After a Girl Tells Me to Write More Poems about Tomatoes" Caitie YoungKent State University |
Puerto del Sol |
| 2024 Honorable Mentions | |
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| Creative Nonfiction | "Breaking the Cycle" Diana Braskich, Central Washington University |
| "Born for This" Molly Higgins, University of Missouri–Kansas City | |
| "Eulogy for the Woman Still Alive"Brooke Mitchell, Susquehanna University | |
| "Girl Fire"Kat Moore, University of North Texas | |
| "Nineteen Insecurities as Exposed by the Harsh Glare of a Dentist’s Operating Light"Zainab Omaki, University of Nebraska–Lincoln | |
| "Unfinished Foxes"Lindsey Pharr, Spalding University | |
| "Prank Calls with My Mother"Gage Saylor, Oklahoma State University | |
| Fiction | "Dead Things"Samuel Ekanem, Notre Dame University |
| "Apertures" Rebecca Fishow, University of Illinois Chicago | |
| "Like Coyotes"Alison Littman, San Francisco State University | |
| "The Birthday Party"Sunny Rosen, Louisiana State University | |
| Poetry | "The Burden of Representation"Aliah Fabros, Point Loma Nazarene University |
| "Hair"Ruby Gutierrez, Santa Clara University | |
| "Inglisero" Kabel Mishka Ligot, University of Illinois Chicago | |
| "Elegy to My Mother’s Breasts"Meg McManama, University of North Texas | |
| "pantoum for little black girls & the black women they leave behind"Makayla Thomas, Hiram College | |
| "In My Garden" Maggie Warren, University of Missouri–Kansas City | |
| "Family of Fine Cars"Isaac Willis, University of Utah | |
| "Autopsy"Morissa Young, University of North Carolina Wilmington | |
