2012

First Prize – Poetry
“Map”
First Prize – Memoir
“Senses of Summer”
First Prize – Undergraduate Academic Nonfiction
“19th-Century Frontier Ideology in Blood Meridian: Cormac…”
First Prize – Undergraduate Fiction
“Two Trails I Remember”
First Prize – Graduate Academic Nonfiction
“Renewable Energy Development & Symbolic Landscapes…”
First Prize – Creative Nonfiction
“Three Trees”
First Prize – Graduate Fiction
“These Boots”
Honorable Mention – Memoir
“Floating Through the Center of the Universe”
Honorable Mention – Creative Nonfiction
“Once Upon a Time in Iraq: A Soldier’s Journey from the…”
Honorable Mention – Creative Nonfiction
“Journey Through Colorado’s Social Landscape: A…”
Honorable Mention – Graduate Academic Nonfiction
“Mimesis and Violence in Sam Shepard’s True West”
Honorable Mention – Graduate Fiction
“Descending”