2025 Prize Winners’ Anthology

NEPC 2025 Contests: Winners and Finalists

Welcome to our “in-process” anthology! We’ll add more poem links until the anthology is complete, so check back –

Watch the 2025 reading by contest winners and finalists on YouTube!

Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Jennifer Garfield

“Marsiya” by Kirun Kapur

Finalists: 

“Why I Chose Bernadette” by Mary Christine Delea

“Alzheimer’s Abecedarian and Erasure” by Wendy Drexler

“Hockey” by Roman Johnson

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

Hemicrania by Therese Gleason

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