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First place Literary Awards winners (2000-2007)
2007
- Poetry: “the smell of books” by Dan Kiefer
- Creative Prose: “The Sound of Birds” by Zachary Willis
- Critical Essay: “The ‘Naming of the Unnamed Name’: How the Rose Unlocks T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets” by Stefanie Jochman
2006
- Poetry: "Overdone" by Meghan Fahy
- Creative Prose: "Rooster" by Stuart Ninabuck
- Critical Essay: "Fairy Godmother and Wicked Witch: The Veiled Dichotomy of Dicken's Miss Havisham in 'Great Expectations'" by Erin Grams
2005
- Poetry: "Meals on Wheels,' "Sweat," "My dad, his hands" by Julie Ennenbach
- Short Story: “Duffer (a tale of the Great North Woods)” by Andrew McIlree
- Personal Non-Fiction: “Minutes" by Dan Karel, "Strangers and Stars" by Karen Aschenbrenner
- Critical Essay: “The Devolution of Female Strength in Jane Eyre and Lady Audley’s Secret” by Elizabeth Hermans
2004
- Poetry: “Water Doesn’t Want Us,” “Water Solitude,” “Boats on the Rhone” by Kristin Alberts
- Short Story: “Nothing More to Fear” by Andrew McIlree
- Critical Essay: “From Romantic to Realistic: Shifting Emotions in the Poetry of World War I” by Kristin Alberts
2003
- Poetry: “Hairy Carrie,” “chickens understand sharp things,” “Neither Poached nor Scramble” by Bridget Esterhuizen
- Short Story: “The Little Minnow” by Margaret Bridge
- Personal Essay: "Deciphering What’s Right with All That’s Left” by Karen Aschenbrenner
- Critical Essay: “Inequality with Poetic Ingenuity: Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Tale”" by Mike McIntyre
2002
- Poetry: “First Confession,” “Music Scene,” “Mining Engineer” by Maureen F. Pratt
- Short Story: "Breakdown" by Kelley Kepler
- Personal Essay: “Happy Hollow Road” by Kelley Kepler, “The Guilt of Settling” by Jennifer A. Broberg
- Critical Essay: “Huckleberry Finn: The End is Just Cheating” by Kelley Kepler
2001
- Poetry: “something god doesn’t know,” “farinelli,” “adam’s elegy” by Alan Kellermann
- Short Story: “That’s Why They Play the Blues” by Alan Kellermann
- Personal Essay: “For Carmen” by Liz Langemak
- Critical Essay: “Totalitarian Goals vs. Utopian Ideals: Orwell’s Warning on the Antithetical Nature of Totalitarianism to Humankind’s Pursuit of the Ideal Society” by Theresa Andre
2000
- Poetry: “Green Accent, 1935,” “The Blue Rider, 1903,” “Impression IV, 1911” by Liz Langemak
- Short Story: “The Last Temptation of Bill” by Jacob Paplham
- Personal Essay: “Thunder Rolls" by Michelle Bergen
- Critical Essay: “Gatsby’s Connection with Myrtle: Reevaluating his Greatness” by Kelly Kepler
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