december is thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s and past awards!
2022 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Laura Dave – Vol. 33.2
Winner Mirian Marguerite Gallou Goodnight, Irene | Honorable Mention Garnett Kilberg Cohen Slow Dance |
2022 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by Taté Walker – Vol. 33.2
Winner Gisselle Yepes On Her Waters Summoning US to Drown | Honorable Mention Anjanette Delgado Of Cats and Men |
2022 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Grace Cavalieri – Vol. 33.1
Winner Lisa Cantwell ravel | Honorable Mention John Sibley Williams Pantoum for What Remains From Minidoka |
2021 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by december Staff – Vol. 32.2
Winner Dinah Cox The Moon Landing | Honorable Mention K.W. Oxnard Cabin |
2021 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by december Staff – Vol. 32.2
Winner Brady Huggett The Portal | Honorable Mention Jay Prosser Shema |
2021 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Carl Phillips – Vol. 32.1
Winner John Okrent Hold Tight | Honorable Mention Margaret Ray Disaster A/version / Re/vision |
2020 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Dorothy Allison – Vol. 31.2
Winner Andrew De Silva Kiss the Sting | Honorable Mention Paul Curley Dogs Don’t Know About Fallujah |
2020 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by Brittney Cooper – Vol. 31.2
Winner Lisa Knopp Death Watch | Honorable Mention Faith Adiele On Traveling While Black |
2020 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Aimee Nezhukumatathil – Vol. 31.1
Winner Kimani Rose River | Honorable Mention Carolyn Foster Segal The Mirrored Room |
2019 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Rita Mae Brown – Vol. 30.2
Winner Andrea Eberly The Land Behind The Fog | Honorable Mention TN Eyer The Augmentation Dilemma |
2019 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by Amy Chua – Vol. 30.2
Winner Sarah Treschl Gumdrop Electric | Honorable Mention Samantha Rogers The One Who Didn’t Stay |
2019 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Kim Addonizio – Vol. 30.1
Winner Mark Wagenaar In Praise of Improvisation | Honorable Mention Yiskah Rosenfeld Inside the Room Outside the Night |
2018 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Anne Tyler – Vol. 29.2
Winner Donna Pols Trump Portage | Honorable Mention Therese Eiben Pass the Baby |
2018 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by Dinty W. Moore – Vol. 29.2
Winner Desirae Matherly Everything I Know About Water | Honorable Mention Laura Haugen At the Edge of Open |
2018 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Luis Javier Rodriguez – Vol. 29.1
Winner Brian Dunlap Those Who Came Before Us | Honorable Mention Geoff Rips Day of the Dead |
2017 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Lily King – Vol. 28.2
Winner Zeeva Bukai The Abandoning | Honorable Mention Steve Mitchell Devastation Tour |
2017 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by Roxane Gay – Vol. 28.2
Winner H’Rina DeTroy The Vengeance of Elephants | Honorable Mention Marcia Douglas I Say All This to Say That: Where Words Come From |
2017 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Adrian Matejka – Vol. 28.1
Winner Franny Choi Pastoral Poem | Honorable Mention Teri Elam Counterpoint |
2016 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Anthony Marra – Vol. 27.2
Winner Thomas Atkinson Grace in the Embers | Honorable Mention Eric Roe Six to Twelve |
2016 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by Eula Biss – Vol. 27.2
Winner Mary Collins The Passenger Seat | Honorable Mention Deborah Thompson Hip Bone Connected To |
2016 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Marge Piercy – Vol. 27.1
Winner Jim Dwyer Enlightenment | Honorable Mention Kate Gray For Every Girl Reassurance |
2015 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Joyce Carol Oates – Vol. 26.2
Winner Emily Goldman Face | Honorable Mention Jeannine Ouellette Tumbleweeds |
2015 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by Albert Goldbarth – Vol. 26.2
Winner Wilfredo Pascual You Have Me | Honorable Mention Dorian Fox Notes from Underground |
2015 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Mary Syzbist – Vol. 26.1
Winner Chelsea Jennings Heirloom | Honorable Mention Sam Roxas-Chua A Beast in the Chapel |
2014 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Mary Helen Stefaniak – Vol. 25.1
Winner Jim Nichols Owls | Honorable Mention Michael Fertik Hunting in Nangarhar |
2014 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction, judged by William Kittredge – Vol. 25.1
Winner Garet Lahvis NQR | Honorable Mention Jenny McKeel Saigon |
2014 Jeff Mark Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Stephen Berg – Vol. 25.1
Winner Greg Jensen Anybody Mentions the Pope | Honorable Mention Dina Elenbogen A New Year |