2016 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize Winners Announced
March 21, 2016
First Place winners receive $150.00; 2nd Place $100, and 3rd place $50.00.Thanks to all who submitted work to the contest! Many submissions were received.
Prose Awards
1st Place: Emily Cavanagh for “My Mother’s Mother”
2nd Place: Reis Vance for “Sun Falling”
3rd Place: Emily Kim for “At the Table”
Honorable Mention: Anna Bella Sicilia for “Daughters” and Alexandra Kindahl for “Re: Can you write the introduction”
Finalists in alphabetical order:
Alexander Blinkoff for “Act Yasukawa is a Pro Wrestler”
Warren Griffiths for “My Mother is a Rhinoceros”
Alice Yanhong Lu for “Third Son”
Charles O’Melia for “star gazing”
Joseph Zimmermann for “In the Library”
Poetry Awards
1st Place: Emily Tuttle for “Princess Diana Asks Freddie Mercury to Dress Her Like a Man”
2nd Place: Alexandra Kindahl for “Kensi”
3rd Place: Chelsea Randall for “The Chant-A Tanka-”
Honorable Mention: Alexandra Kindahl for “Why I Don’t Swim”
Finalists in alphabetical order:
Elliot Frank for “White man-poets like to write odes to jazz musicians of the late 60’s.”
Sean Glisson for “Places We Weren’t Ready For”
Warren Griffiths for “Seventeen Years”
Alexandra Kindahl for “Michael”
Clayton Krollman for “JELLYFISH ARE JUST WET GHOSTS”
Daphne Pellegrino for “WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR HANDS”
Mark your calendars for the prizewinners’ reading at LITFEST
Thursday May 5, 7:00 pm in St. Mary’s Hall
Reading followed by Reception.
The 2016 issue of Stylus will also be unveiled!