2016 Winners

Judge: 
​Merritt Tierce, author, most recently, of the novel Love Me Back, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.

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Finalists
Darién
-Carol Duran Quinn

Shondesh
-Jay Thumar

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Runner-up: 
​Self-Portrait as Token, [Offering] 
-Daniel T. O’Brien
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Judge: 
​Melissa Kwasny, author, most recently, of the poetry collection Pictograph, a portion of which was the recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.

Finalists
How Exist
-Felicia Zamora

An Hour North of Lee Vining, California
-Michelle Bitting

On Forgetting My Tongue in Japan
-Martin Rock

Placeholders for a Father [Found During His Mother’s Funeral]
-Samantha Deal

Doomsday Book
-Denise Jarrott

​Judge: 
Charles D’Ambrosio, author, most recently, of Loitering: New and Collected Essays​, and recipient of a Whiting Award​.

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Finalists
About Where You Come From
-Samantha L. Deal

A Pack a Day
-Betty Jo Buro

The Evolution of a Trigger
-Whitney Templeton
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