Watch the 2025 reading by contest winners and finalists on YouTube!
Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Jennifer Garfield
Finalists:
“Why I Chose Bernadette” by Mary Christine Delea
“Alzheimer’s Abecedarian and Erasure” by Wendy Drexler
Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Laura Rodley
“Astropastoral (The Second Pentacle of the Sun)” by Jason O’Toole
Finalists:
“Cancer Qasida” by Kirun Kapur
“Bog in June” by Brenna Manuel
“nighttime in the neonatal” by Stephanie Angelini
E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Chard deNiord
“On Seeing the Movie No Other Land” by Wendy Drexler
Finalists:
“A pea deprived a princess of sleep” by Julia H. Fonte
“I Dream the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn” by Matthew Johnson
“not next now next” by Bryan Marshall
Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by Kymm Coveney
“The Parable of the Hands” by Mariya Tytarenko, translated by Yuliya Musakovska
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Matthew E. Henry
Finalists:
The Unknown Daughter by Tricia Knoll
I’m not I’m not I’m not a baby by Dev Murphy
Revere Beach Stories, by Kevin Carey, Jennifer Martelli, and Stephenie Young