2017

Keynote Speaker,
Editorial Editor for The Denver Post
“Advice to young writers: On story-telling, truth-telling and Hell on Earth”

First Prize – Poetry
“Hagar in the Grove”

First Prize – Undergraduate Academic Nonfiction
“Tribal Law: The United States’ Window Dressing of Rape prevention in the SAVE…”

First Prize – Graduate Academic Nonfiction
“James Willard Schultz and the Complicated Politics of Place Names in Glacier National Park”

First Prize – Undergraduate Fiction
“James Richard”

First Prize – Graduate Fiction
“Mesozoic”

First Prize – Creative Nonfiction
“The True Tale of Periquillo: Early Western Literature, American Memory, and the Space Between” (unavailable for viewing)

First Prize – Memoir
“‘I Remember You’: Wildness, Gratitude, and Western History, on Horseback” (unavailable for viewing)

Honorable Mention – Poetry
“E.W.B., whom I (thankfully) abandoned for the will of God”

Honorable Mention – Undergraduate Academic Nonfiction
“Quintessential Western Sound in Tiomkin’s ‘Red River'”

Honorable Mention – Graduate Fiction
“Where Mountains Meet Sky”