december is thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s and past awards!
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 |