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

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November 1, 2018

Young Poets Introduction

By Natalie Shapero

Editor at Large2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, now in its fifteenth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by […]

November 1, 2018

Chapter Seven Quiz

By Jenny Li

Runner-up 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   Once you finish the quiz, you may leave                   your body How did she begin?   a. as one of three sisters, beautiful […]

November 1, 2018

Extraterrestre

By Emily Perez

Runner-up 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   At the age of nine I was catapulted into the stars To land, face down, on an alien planet. A […]

November 1, 2018

What I Left Behind

By Audrey Kim

Winner 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   The summer I found myself in a girl’s arms, our limbs sticky   with sweat and sugar, there was a knock […]