Claudia Ann Seaman
Award-Winning Submissions
Volume 14 | 2018
Poetry
Judge: Kenyetta Rogers
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
Fiction
Judge: Jeremy Wilson
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Mary Wisniewski
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
The Gender Dysphoria Sestina, Clio Hamilton
Lehman Alternative Community School, Ithaca, New York
Because of the Pear, Maia Siegel
Community HS, Roanoke, Virginia
California Luck, Dana Chiueh
Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Province of China
Drain, Clio Hamilton
Lehman Alternative Community School, Ithaca, New York
Advanced Fiction, Paul Michaud
Gorton School, Nashville, Tennessee
Turtleboy, Julian Riccobon
Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A Matter of Fact, Victoria Carl
Booker T. Washington Magnet School, Montgomery, Alabama
Ambiguous Truths, Dana Dykiel
Acton-Boxborough Regional HS, Acton, Massachusetts
Blue Earth, Max Hunt
Northpoint Christian School, Southaven, Missouri
Volume 13 | 2017
Poetry
Judge: Kenyetta Rogers
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
Fiction
Judge: Jeremy Wilson
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Mary Wisniewski
WINNER
RUNNER-UP
Chickadees, Grace Guiney
Royal Bay Secondary, Victoria, British Columbia
A Study in Consciousness, Nicole Tota
Cherokee HS, Marlton, New Jersey
death is a girl, Caitlin Hubert
Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois
Lake, Caylee Weintraub
Mariner HS, Cape Coral, Florida
Good as New, Martin Chan
Wen Hua Senior HS, Taichung City, Taiwan
Woman, Heather Jensen
Red Mountain HS, Mesa, Arizona
J
Up, Noa Rosenberg
Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Spaces Between, Emily Dehr
Atherton HS, Louisville, KY
Claudia Ann Seaman Award Judges
2017 & 2018
Kenyatta Rogers, Poetry
Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been twice awarded scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He has also been nominated twice for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. His work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from jubilat, Vinyl, Bat City Review, The Volta and PANK, among others. He is an associate editor of RHINO Poetry and currently serves on the creative writing faculty at the Chicago High School for the Arts.
Jeremy Wilson, Fiction
Jeremy T. Wilson is the author of the short story collection Adult Teeth. He is a former winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for short fiction, and his stories have appeared or are forthcoming in literary magazines such as The Carolina Quarterly, The Florida Review, Hobart, Sonora Review, Third Coast and other
publications. He teaches creative writing at The Chicago High School for the Arts.
Mary Wisniewski, Creative Nonfiction
Mary Wisniewski is the author of Algren: A Life, the story of the brilliant but troubled Chicago novelist Nelson Algren. It won the 2017 Society of Midland Authors award for best biography and the Chicago Writers Association award for best traditional nonfiction. She is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Wisniewski also teaches nonfiction creative writing for the Newberry Library seminar program and the Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference.
