december is thrilled to announce the winners of the first annual december Awards!

The Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Stephen Berg

WINNER
Greg Jensen
Anybody Mentions the Pope

HONORABLE MENTION
Dina Elenbogen
A New Year

Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Mary Helen Stefaniak

WINNER
Jim Nichols
Owls

HONORABLE MENTION
Michael Fertik
Hunting in Nangarhar

Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction, judged by William Kittredge

WINNER
Garet Lahvis
NQR

HONORABLE MENTION
Jenny McKeel
Saigon