The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Past Award Recipients
Click on any of the links to read the winning poems from previous years
2013 • 513 Entrants
- First Prize: Ian Burnette, Greenville, South Carolina: “Full Blood”
- Runner Up: Anne Hucks, Greenville, South Carolina: “Mobile”
- Runner Up: Alicia Lai, State College, Pennsylvania: “Saung”
2012 • 655 Entrants
- First Prize: Victoria White, Milton, Massachusetts: “Elephant Grave”
- First Prize: Truman Zhang, Milton, Massachusetts: “Dear Poet”
- Runner Up: Nandita Karambelkar, Greenville, South Carolina: “Rangoli”
2011 • 549 Entrants
- First Prize: Natalie Landers, Tarrant, Alabama: “Ode to Words”
- Runner Up: Hayun Cho, Wilmette, Illinois: “Halmoni”
- Runner Up: Emily Nason, Columbia, South Carolina: “Ripening”
- Honorable Mention: Kathleen Cole, Mauldin, South Carolina: “We Come From a Town With Only Two Buildings”; Kaiyuh Cornberg, Natick, Massachusetts: “At Register 6”
2010 • 590 Entrants
- First Prize: Anna Faison, Aiken, South Carolina: “Han”
- Runner Up: Emma Broder, Hamden, Connecticut: “Nkoaranga”
- Runner Up: Megan Gallagher, Greenville, South Carolina: “Clutch”
- Special Merit: Kevin Hong, Needham, Massachusetts: “The Rose Mooncake”; Mallory Weiss, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey: “no need to fight retrospect embarrassment”; Vienna Wagner, Carmel, Indiana: “Esther”
2009 • 615 Entrants
- First Prize: Felicity Sheehy, Jefferson Valley, New York: “Letter”
- Second Prize: Haley Markbreiter, New York, New York: “The Solitude of Hungarians”
- Third Prize: Arbil López, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: “Ciudad”
2008 • 945 Entrants
- First Prize: Molly Brown, Sweet Briar, Virginia: “Terra Incognita”
- Second Prize: Weihui Lu, Flushing, New York: “(why) can’t i hear you anymore?”
- Third Prize: Samantha Berstler, Morristown, New Jersey: “Self-Portrait (she can’t write poetry)”
- Special Merit: Sarah Konowitz, Canton, Massachusetts: “Minnesota Soldier”; Nadia Qari, Allendale, New Jersey: “Directions to Follow”; Hannah Crum, Corvallis, Oregon: “Ornaments (My grandmother)”
2007 • 1,255 Entrants
- First Prize: Rebekah Latour, Clemson, South Carolina: “Twisted Like Dogwood”
- Second Prize: Frankie Romano, Bellmore, New York: “The Night You Questioned the Purpose of Flowers”
- Third Prize: Hannah Irvin, Birmingham, Alabama: “For My Father”
- Honorable Mention: Celeste Brewer, Greenville, South Carolina: “Gemini”
- Special Merit: Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Cambridge, Massachusetts: “No Spaces”;Laura Nuckols, Minnetonka, Minnesota: “Caiodh”; Natalie Reinhart, New Hope, Alabama: “Roman Spring”
2006 • 1,132 Entrants
- First Prize: Justine Li, Laguna Niguel, California: “El Norte”
- Second Prize: Laura Winnick, Hamden, Connecticut: “A Quantum Leap”
- Third Prize: Dan Li, Palo Alto, California: “A Heap of Fruits”
- Honorable Mention: Anne Greenberg, Westfield, New Jersey: “Upon Discovering the Disappearance of My Left Hand”
- Special Merit: Tara Wright, Hermitage, Tennessee: “I Don’t Think Thunder”; Molly Shannon, Southfield, Michigan: “Holiday in Fallujah”; Katharine Locke, Raleigh, North Carolina: “Just Fine”; Danielle Bishop, Grand Rapids, Ohio: “The Rower’s Daybreak”
2005
- First Prize: Emma Hansen, Peacham, Vermont: “Good Morning America”
- Second Prize: Sarah Winsberg, Rochester, New York: “Evolution”
- Third Prize: Amrita Khalid, Idyllwild, California: “Apology for the Death of Your Father”
- Honorable Mention: Andrea Harris, Dorchester, Massachusetts: “Lynching: 1998”
- Honorable Mention: Talia Hershewe, Reno, Nevada: “Naming Last Names”
- Special Merit: Bridget Behrmann: “Shifting”; Liza Flum: “Turning Red”; Carolyn Kerchof: “on”; Jenna McNair: “Fallen”
- Special Merit: Katherin Monasterio: “Rush Hour”
- Special Merit: Esei Murakishi: “Encephalogram”
2004
- First Prize: Robin Myers, Maplewood, New Jersey: “A Birth”
- Second Prize: Madeline Weinstein, Wellesley, Massachusetts: “Art Appreciation”
- Third Prize: Laura Bennett, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: “Spilled Rice”
- Honorable Mention: Mohammed Abbasi, Brooklyn, New York: “War Season”
- Honorable Mention: Emma Hulse, Indianapolis, Indiana: “To Sylvia”
- Honorable Mention: Keith Yoder, Elkhart, Indiana: “Share My Soul”
