Annual Prize Winners
Rumi Prize for Poetry
“Binge-worthy,” “Exit Interview,” “That One Childhood I
Lived in a Haunted House,” and, “The Senator’s Widow” Will Dowd
Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction
“Requiem for a Bubble Tea” Bea Chang
Arts & Letters Fiction Prize
“Searching for Bilohorivka” Daniel Hamilton
Poetry
“From the Postcard Box at the Antique Store” Lisa Compo
“The Smartest Mollusk” & “Mountain Time” Lex Orgera
“Lamentations of the living and the dead,” Celia Lawren
“Broken Glass 1992,” “Black Bag,” and
“I was warned not to fall in love quickly,” Laura Vitcova
“Inventory at Forty-One” & “At the Children’s Museum” Erica Wright
“S.I.S.” & “Take a Penny, Leave (Heartless)” Erik Moyer
“Homing” & “Second of January” Kate Welsh
Creative Nonfiction
“Love Lives Beyond the Waters” Marissa Yuan
“The Baptism” Andrea Bianchi
Flash
“Garage Sale Inside” Marin Sardy
“While I Feed My Son” & “One Hundred and Twenty Years” Michelle R. Brady
“The Man Sitting to My Left,” “At the Fossil Show,”
and, “Eurypterid Fragments” Maddy Frank
“Mending” & “Chronometry” Allison Weissman
“Flowers After the Wedding” Caitlin O’Neil
“A Thing on Dad” Nick Otte
“The Shape of Memory” Kate O’Gorman
“Drowsy” Beth Sherman
Fiction
“Who Here Likes These Cookies?” Leslie Pietrzyk
“Good Korean Boy” Samantha Lee
Unclassifiable
“Select Reddit Posts from the Three Months
Following My First Hypomania” Big Hark
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