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

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October 1, 2007

Twisted Like Dogwood

By Rebekah Latour

First-Place Winner, 2007 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   Mornings he lies under the bridge pretending the sky is black— and when boys stand atop the bridge, making […]

October 1, 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 […]