2020s Annual Writing Prizes

2023

James Seaton Midwestern Heritage Prize for Literary Criticism

Meg Gillette, Augustana College
"Midlife Selfhood in the Poetry of Marjorie Allen Seiffert"

Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize

Angela Williamson Emmert, New London High School, New London, Wisconsin
"The Place in My Bones Where I Might Find Him"

Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose

Mary Minock, Madonna University
"Learning to Ride"

David Diamond Student Writing Prize

This prize was not awarded this year.

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