december award winners

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