2020s Annual Writing Prizes
2024
James Seaton Midwestern Heritage Prize for Literary Criticism
Robert Dunne, Central Connecticut State University
"Anderson, Trilling, and the Influence of Powerful Critics: Score One for the Author"
Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize
The prize was not awarded this year.
Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose
Gretchen Lida, Gateway Technical College
"Can Technical College Students 'Think Like a Mountain'"
David Diamond Student Writing Prize
Jefferson Storms, Kansas State University
"'An Antydote fer the Brute': Apocalyptic Imagination in Father Hiram on the World's War"
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.
