MFA Prizes in Poetry and Prose
Every spring the program recognizes distinguished student
work by awarding the MFA Prize in Poetry and the MFA Prize
in Prose to works in each genre written in the preceding
calendar year. Nominations for the prose competition are
made by teachers of that year's workshops in fiction and
essay writing. The poetry competition is open to all MFA
students who have taken a poetry workshop in the preceding
year; the call for poetry submissions occurs early in the
spring semester. The judging is blind. Judges are drawn
from the UM-St. Louis English faculty or are writers from
off campus. The awards are presented to the winners at the
annual English alumni party in the spring.
Recent winners are listed below. Click on their names to
read their work (This is an awards presentation of the author's work and does not constitute publication).
Poetry: Tim Leach won the James Russell Grant poetry award given to an MFA student (the first time this award has been presented).
Fiction: Julianne Bartlett and Rebecca Brown-Gregory tied for first place.
Creative Nonfiction: Winner, Leeli Davidson, and Amanda Wynn, runner-up.
Poetry: O. Ayes (winner); Andrew Pryor and Capuchina Taylor (runners-up)
Fiction: Inda Schaenen and Angela Mitchell-Phillips (co-winners)
Poetry: Jaime Wood (winner)
Fiction: Inda Schaenen (winner)
Poetry: Robert Lowes (winner)
Fiction: Susan
LaBrier (winner)
Essay: Seth
Raab (winner)
Poetry: Robert Lowes (winner); Nancy Powers (runner-up)
Fiction: Marie Goyette (winner)
Essay: Rebecca Pastor (winner)
Poetry: Eve Jones (winner); Brian Lindsey (runner-up)
Fiction: Reggie Poche (winner); Patti Smith
Jackson (runner-up)
Essay: Colleen
McKee (winner)
Poetry: Colleen
McKee (winner)
Fiction: Trysh Brown (winner)
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