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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Hannah Irvin

Hannah Irvin is a sophomore at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama. She plans to attend college and pursue a career in journalism.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Fall 2007

For My Father

By Hannah Irvin

Third-Place Winner2007 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers a kind of fisherman’s tale I. You took me to the side of the yard, cast your line, and dubbed […]

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