2018 SSML Annual Writing Prizes

Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize
“Imagining Life as a Graffiti Artist” by Mary Catherine Harper, Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio

Paul Somers Creative Prose Prize
“Vanishing Point” by Jane Holwerda, Dodge City Community College, Dodge City, Kansas

David Diamond Student Writing Prize
“Looking Back: The Orphic Quest of the Narrator in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried” by Lucie Jammes, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures

James Seaton Midwest Heritage Prize Essay
No winner was selected because there were not enough entries.