Hollins MFA

Elisabeth Booze

• Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, winner, 2015
• Melanie Hook Rice Award in the Novel, winner, 2015
• Melanie Hook Rice Award in the Novel, runner-up, 2016

Anna Cartij

• AWP Intro Journals Project, winner, 2016
• A Short Walk up Graves Hill, Mid-American Review, issue 37.1
• “Paradise Island” in Blackbird.

Mike Good

• Fossil and Potamia (II) in the New Yinzer
• Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, runner-up, 2016
• Three Visual Poems in After the Pause: Fall 2016

Miranda Jenkins

• Melanie Hook Rice Award in Creative Nonfiction, runner-up, 2016

Mallory Jones

• The Clarinetist and the Cult Leader in Hot Metal Bridge
• Melanie Hook Rice Award in Creative Nonfiction, runner-up, 2015
• Melanie Hook Rice Award in Creative Nonfiction, winner, 2016

Taylor Kobran

• Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, runner-up, 2016
• The Fence in the Nottingham Review
• Inheritance in the Ilanot Review
• Ghosts in City Quill
• Golem in Lunch Ticket

Natasha Oladokun

• Haint, poetry in Harvard Review Online
• Performance of Rites at Community Inn, in Pleiades
• Self-Portrait as Pygmalion’s Bride, poetry in Quince
• Pillar of Salt, poetry in storySouth
• Learning Poetry, Unlearning God, nonfiction in IMAGE Journal

Ellen Louise Ray

• Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, runner-up, 2015
• Melanie Hook Rice Award in the Novel, winner, 2016

William Repass

• “air-strike:” poets.org
• Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, winner, 2015

• Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, winner, 2016

• Earl and Innamorata in Artemis Journal
• Who Will Perform the Rites in Mistake House
• Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, winner, 2015
• The Problem of the Flying Puppies in The Morning News 
• Bedtime Story and Father-Daughter Time in Red Truck Review
• How Knights are Made: A Uniform’s Powerful Message in Army Aviation Magazine 
• In Orbit in Jam Tarts Magazine, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• Catalysis in Cactus Heart Magazine, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• Letter to Santa in Silver Birch Press