The Howard Nemerov Creative Writing Awards
Sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis.
This competition is open to juniors and seniors currently enrolled in high school. Three prizes of $250 each will be awarded both in fiction and in poetry. Students may send a single entry in each genre (one poem and/or one short story or novel chapter). All entries must be typed, with the student's name, home address, telephone number, social security number, high school name and address, and the genre (poetry or fiction) of the work on the first page. Entries must be postmarked by March 15, 2009. Awards will be announced May 15, 2009. Please keep a copy, as entries cannot be returned.
This competition will be judged by faculty in the Writing Program at Washington University, including fiction writers Kathryn Davis, Marshall Klimasewiski and Kellie Wells, and poets Mary Jo Bang and Carl Phillips.
Send entries to:
The Howard Nemerov Creative Writing Awards
Washington University
Campus Box 1122
One Brookings Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
For further inquiries, contact David Schuman at (314) 935-7130.
The Howard Nemerov Creative Writing Award Winners for 2008
Poetry:
Monica Landy-- "Morning "
Hannah Aizenman-- "Schicksalstag "
Willa Granger-- "AND IN NEW JERSEY "
Fiction:
Mia Osborn-- "The Desert "
Corina Chase-- "Black Point "
Chloe Cole-- "Vulnerable"
The Howard Nemerov Creative Writing Award Winners for 2007
Poetry:
Sean Bradt-- "Chernobyl Crabapple "
Amanda Loveless-- "The Chinchilla "
Tara Venkatraman-- "In the unlikely event of "
Fiction:
Courtney Peck-- "Encounters"
Amanda Moore-- "Winter's Love "
Natalie Swan Reinhart-- "Currents"
The Howard Nemerov Creative Writing Award Winners for 2006
Poetry:
Sean Bradt -- "Elegy For A Human "
Olga Redko -- "An Encounter "
Glynnis Ritchie -- "Blackberries"
Fiction:
Mark E. Wadley -- "Roadkill"
Sarah Campbell -- "Ghost"
Emily Oliver -- "11 Hours"
The Howard Nemerov Creative Writing Award Winners for 2005
Poetry:
Melissa Newman-Evans -- "The Stolen Hours"
Charlie Riggs -- "The Sickles"
Naomi Wolf -- "A Scientist Speaks to Artemis"
Fiction:
Sarah Campbell -- "Crybaby Moon"
Melissa Newman-Evans: -- "Cicada-Song"
Margaret Ross -- "What You Lose Will Be Redeemed"
Winners for 2004
Poetry:
Chris Van Buren -- "Hymn"
Halley Ross -- "Breathing"
Emily Cinningham -- "September Poem"
Fiction:
Quinn Lewis -- "The Story of Thoughts and Violets"
Dan Corkum -- "Cogs"
Noah Lawrence -- "The Late Bus"
Winners for 2003
Poetry:
Quinn Lewis -- "Life During Dry Time"
Lisa Locascio -- "Hymn"
Lee Steely -- "The Boy"
Fiction:
Sarah Caharron -- "Cousin Woes and Would-Be Congressmen"
Joshua Michael McInnis Bowers -- "On The Day That Pranisco Jevezia Remembers
Most"
Regenald J. Poweel, Jr.-- "In Medias Res"
Winners for 2002
Poetry:
Aditi Gupta -- "Jewwl of the British Empire"
Emily Russell-Roy -- "Ophelia"
Johanna Smith -- "Affair"
Fiction:
Boris Feinstein -- "Water Buffala"
Arlene Levitin -- "The Bare Mattress"
Brendan McIntyre -- "Los Apostadores"
Winners for 2001
Poetry:
Sara Israelsen -- "Sounds of Summer"
Ryan Riby -- "In Memory of Deeds"
Emmet Van Driesche -- "Gravel Cairns"
Fiction:
Halle Kiefer -- A Chapter from "The Adventures of the Founding Fathers"
Courtney Withey -- "The Bonds of Family"
Bobby R. Zimmermann II -- "Strangers in Twilight"
Winners for 2000
Poetry:
Kristen Blemm -- "an alternate fro Gustave Klimt, (to Ferlinghetti, with
love)"
Molly Patterson -- "Leftovers"
Erin Trembley -- "Frostbitten"
Fiction:
Andrea Wright -- "Dissolving"
Macros Antuna -- "Waterloo: Two Journeys"
Conner Perkins -- "Poppies"