James Wright Poetry Award (Virgil Suárez, final judge)
Winner: Amanda Auchter of Houston, Texas
"Alfred Eisenstaedt Holding His VJ Day Negative With Two Hands, 1945"
   Finalists: Teresa Ballard of Minneapolis, Minnesota, "What a Strange Machine"
   Shawn Fawson of Salt Lake City, Utah, "Servant of the Inarticulate"
   Elton Glaser of Akron, Ohio, "Prayer From the Back Pew"
   Anna Journey of Richmond, Virginia, "Elegy: After Filling Out Egg Donation Forms"

   Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award (Steve Almond, final judge)
Winner: Valery Varble of Louisville, Kentucky
"Bat"
   Finalists: Josh Goldfaden of San Clemente, California, "Disorder Destroyers"
   Liz Mandrell of Austin, Texas, "The Cheer"
   Bill Pettitt of Boise, Idaho, "This Is Not About Me"
   M. Glenn Taylor III of Mount Prospect, Illinois, "The Story of a Hateful Man"

   Creative Nonfiction Award (Josip Novakovich, final judge)
Winner: Sue William Silverman of Grand Haven, Michigan
"That Summer of War and Apricots"
   Finalists: Shawn Fawson of Salt Lake City, Utah, "Land of the White Sky"
   Lauri Mattenson of Los Angeles, California, "To Study, To Sanctify"
   Leslie F. Miller of Baltimore, Maryland, "Lists: A List"
   Katherine Riegel of Oswego, New York, "Farang"