2016

Keynote Speaker,
Author of Shoshone Mike
“How to Know What to Write”

First Prize – Poetry
“Die Better”

First Prize – Undergraduate Academic Nonfiction
“Naming Practices, Speech, and Beliefs of the Ute”

First Prize – Graduate Academic Nonfiction 
“Becoming Vaquero: Material Memory & the Power of a Photograph in Reassembling Northern Nevada’s Vaquero Heritage” (unavailable for viewing)

First Prize – Graduate Fiction
“Crossing”

First Prize – Creative Nonfiction
“Re-Membering the Llano: California’s Multiple Histories as an Island” (unavailable for viewing)

First Prize – Memoir
“The Dark Sky Paradox”

Honorable Mention – Poetry
“Skeleton Land”

Honorable Mention – Creative Non-fiction
“Foam On The Range: How Colorado’s Craft Beer…”