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POETRY
First Place
“Cuban Jesus”
Vivian Guerra
University of North Georgia
Second Place
“Trangender Creation Myth”
Daniel Fetherling
MTSU
Third Place
Lila Stamps
Tennessee Tech University
Judge
Cynthia Young
Fiction
First Place
“The Worlds Left Behind”
Lainie Genry
Harding University
Second Place
“We Stand Below”
Daisy Noble
University of Mississippi
Third Place
“Ten Percent”
Rhodes Lipsey
Mississippi State University
Judge
Paul Luikart
Playwriting
First Place
Gas N' Go
Katherine Trinque
Mississippi State University
Second Place
As Freud Would Say
Noah Carroll
Hendrix College
Third Place
Clean Slate
Jessica Pruitt
MTSU
Judge
Kim Jackson
Creative Nonfiction
First Place
“Esto Es America, Speak Spanish”
Isabelle Janney
University of Mississippi
Second Place
“Draw Me a Sheep, Trollhunter”
Lainie Genry
Harding University
Third Place
“How to Stay in the Morally Gray”
Cameron Ireland
Christian Brothers University
Judge
Dana Shavin
Formal Essay
First Place
“The Poisonous Romance of 'Amor Mundi': Rosetti’s Critique of the Romantic Movement”
Nadia Jacobs
Columbus State University
Second Place
“Nature’s Infidel and Industry’s Thrall: Social Commentaries in Orlando’s Narrative Structure”
Theodore Lopata
University of North Georgia
Third Place
“Xenophobia in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Jacob Money
University of Mississippi
Judge
Kim Carter, Professor
Chattanooga State Community College
Literary Magazine
First Place
The Aonian
Hendrix College
Second Place
Arden
Columbus State University
Third Place
The Switch
UT Martin
Judge
Chelsea Risley, Editor
Southern Review of Books
