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, 2020

Cutglass

By Manasi Garg

Winner2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Mama tells me there are men who measure themselves by theshadows they cast. In the war years they ripped softness from the […]

September 1, 2020

(B)lack

By Eric Gottlieb

Runner-up2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Passing. I am               smudged—skin color on White canvases          stretched          over headlights. A black mom                                                            /                                                                                                                                                                    A white dad. Now, the sky tosses and turns                    WithMurkyHuesAtopLeadHillsUntilScreechingBirds Jolt           my […]

September 1, 2020

Meat

By Annie Cao

Runner-up2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers In the morning, my daughter eats rice porridgewith hawthorn berries and smiles over knuckles plump, unsplit by teeth. She is powdered sugarand […]