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Awards

Catching up with 2025 Fiction Prize Winner Mary Jean Babic

September 30, 2025 | Awards, blog

Mary Jean Babic grew up in Illinois and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. Her writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Crab Orchard Review, and other publications. She works as a content designer in the financial industry. She self-published Central Standard a collection of stories and essays, earlier this year....

Catching up with 2025 Poetry Prize Winner Samuel Piccone

September 30, 2025 | Awards, blog

   Samuel Piccone is the author of Domestica (University of Arkansas Press, 2026), winner of the 2025 Miller Williams Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including, Frontier Poetry, Washington Square Review, and RHINO. He serves as poetry editor at Raleigh Review, and is an assistant teaching professor at Iowa State University. HS: What about Judi Dench’s line from Spaceship Earth...

Catching Up with 2022 Nonfiction Prize Winner Courtney Kersten

January 10, 2023 | Awards, blog

Courtey Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays have been published in River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals, and have been awarded the Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award, the Southern Indiana Review’s Mary C. Mohr Award in Creative Nonfiction, and been...

Poet John A. Nieves wins book prize

January 31, 2013 | Awards

Congratulations to Crazyhorse Issue 82 contributor John A. Nieves, whose first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize! His book will be published in early 2014.