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 |