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Poetry
| 1st Place | DJ Mack | "Like Icarus and his Sun" |
| 2nd Place | Gabrielle Ortiz | "The Presence of the Sea" |
| 3rd Place | Jakob Wesley Prater | "Testimony of a Husk" |
Fiction/Memoir
| 1st Place | Anthony Custance | "No Discharge in the War" |
| 2nd Place | Ryan Courtney | "Cradle to Grave" |
| 3rd Place | Amy Michelle Beamon | "Sixteen" |
Poetry
| 1st Place | Finnegan Cole | "Waterbug" |
| 2nd Place | Katelyn Bennett | "Snowed" |
| 3rd Place | Gabrielle Ortiz | "Silence" |
Fiction/Memoir
| 1st Place | Tatum Allison | "Aravella and the Keys of New Beginnings" (fiction) |
| 2nd Place | Sarah Oliveira | "The Hidden Language of Belonging" (memoir) |
| 3rd Place (tie) | Atreyu Daylan Howard | "Still Darkness" (fiction) |
| 3rd Place (tie) | Zoe Hayhurst | "A Bittersweet Goodbye" (memoir) |
Special Recognition: Foreign Language Poetry
| Alexa Palacios Sanchez |
Poetry
| 1st Place | Adrianna Linder | "Like a Dog" |
| 2nd Place | Nicholas Browning | "Gas Station Magnets" |
| 3rd Place | Miguel Olvera | "N FM 51" |
Fiction/Memoir
| 1st Place | Haven Smith | "The Tale of Two Babies" |
| 2nd Place | Caleb Turner | "A Letter to the Universe" |
| 3rd Place | Finnegan Cole | "My Side of the River" |
Poetry
| 1st Place | Mya McKinney | "The Overgrown Self" |
| 2nd Place | Harvest Bowman | "The Skeleton" |
| 3rd Place | Brendan Dixon | "Water" |
Short Story
| 1st Place | Pixie Easley | "Labyrinth of Reflections" |
| 2nd Place | Jareth Woodson | "Bitch’s Brew" |
| 3rd Place | Bridget Lapp | "grey and Red" |
Poetry
| 1st Place | Isaac Putnam | "Motel Beauty Queen" |
| 2nd Place | Christiana Dalton | "deathtime" |
| 3rd Place | Harvest Bowman | "Peace" |
Short Story
| 1st Place | Olivia Tokar | "Wonderings" |
| 2nd Place | Jareth Woodson | "Hallelujah" |
| 3rd Place | Noah Newmann | "The Devils We Share" |
Poetry
| 1st Place | Harvest Bowman | "The Stranger" |
| 2nd Place | Mya McKinney | "My Garden" |
| 3rd Place | Lydia Thomas | "Never Know 'Til It's Gone" |
Short Story
| 1st Place | Hanna Burgess | "A Plunge into Icy Waters" |
| 2nd Place | Noah Newmann | "Pickett's Field" |
| 3rd Place | Ashlyn Nance | "Ruby Redd's Cleaning Service" |
Poetry
| 1st Place | Robert Heater | "The War" |
| 2nd Place | Robert Heater | "Do You Remember When We First Started" |
| 3rd Place | Milly Rowden | "The Eyes of the Painting" |
Short Fiction
| 1st Place | Elliott Mudd | "The Call" |
| 2nd Place | Alexandra Pitman | "Last Call" |
| 3rd Place | Finn Mac Cool | "My Letter to You" |
Creative Nonfiction
| 1st Place | Bracy Hill | "I Can do it" |
| 2nd Place | Rober Heater | "Laugh at My Mistake" |
Poetry
| 1st Place | Cody Lawson |
| 2nd Place | David Russell |
| 3rd Place | Michael Brownlow |
Short Fiction
| 1st Place | Clint King |
| 2nd Place | Krista Cornelius |
| 3rd Place | Joshua Campbell |
| Honorable Mention | Finn MacCool |
Creative Nonfiction
| 1st Place | Clint King |
| 2nd Place | Joshua Campbell |
| 3rd Place | Diana Meador |
| Honorable Mention | Ashley Milligan |