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

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September 1, 2015

Story for the Salt

By Emily Zhang

Runner-up 2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Stooped over the sink like the arm of a salt-marsh tree, suds meditating in her palms, Ma swears this is true— […]

September 1, 2015

Young Poets Introduction

By Natalie Shapero

2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, now in its twelfth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by a high school […]