Matthew Bishop
- Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, honorable mention, 2011, winner, 2012
Brandon Courtney
- Inadequate Grave by YesYes Books
- The Grief Muscles by Sheep Meadow Press
- Rooms for Rent in the Burning City by Sparkwheel Press
- Improvised Devices by Thrush Press
- Mawpin in Gulf Stream
- Prometheus in Guernica Magazine
- Piece in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
- A Blind Date Asks About the War in Tupelo Quarterly
- Cutting Toward the Body in Conte: Journal of Narrative Writing, nominated for Pushcart Prize
- Startle of the Sleeping World in Gargoyle
- Secondary Recoil in The MacGuffin
- Cotton Fever in The Smokelong Quarterly, along with an interview
- White Pepper and Virga in the Drought Years in Softblow
- Shamal in elimae
- The Architect’s Widow and The Arc of Field Stones in Boxcar Poetry Review
- Five Card Charlie in The Los Angeles Review
- Stone Fruit in Rabbit Catastrophe
- My Sister’s Blindness, Argument Forms and Fallacies, and Ekphrasis of St. Sebastian in Kill Author
- Year Without Dusting and Malaria Tent, Pleiku, 1964 in The Raleigh Review
- Cayenne and Cinnamon in Tar River Poetry Review
- Shore Leave, Crete, 2002 in Prick of the Spindle
- On the Anniversary of a Drowning in Two Weeks: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
- Field Nurse, 1862 in Caper Literary Journal, chosen by Kelly Davio as a poetry winner of the Borges Prose and Poetry Prize
- Cupped Hands: The First Boat in The Los Angeles Review
- Record Cold, 1962 in Linebreak, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- Elegy for Milk in The Journal
- The Architect’s Widow in Boxcar Poetry Review, chosen as a finalist for the Oboh Poetry Prize
- Jesus Dreamt Only Once and The Failure of Medicine nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology by Sundress Publication/Ghost Ocean Magazine
- Electrocution, Kessler Farm, 1988 in PANK
- Inheritance and Barrow in Pebble Lake Review
- EF3 in Sugar House Review
- Obsidian in The Fourth River, invited to read at the 2012 Younger American Poetry Series in Des Moines, Iowa
- Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, winner, 2012
Mary Catherine Curley
- The Hornbill in Barrelhouse
- Yahoo in Juked
- Peeling Apples in Specter Magazine
- Wherever You Are My Bear Will Find You in Punchnel’s
- Dog is Good in A River & Sound Review
- Melanie Hook Rice Award in the Novel, runner-up, 2012
David Gauly
- Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, winner, 2011, winner, 2012
S.H. Lohmann
- Piece in Best New Poets 2014
- What It Means to be Taken in Rattle
Una Perdida: Santiago in Indiana Review - Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, winner, 2011
- Melanie Hook Rice Award in Creative Nonfiction, winner, 2012
Ayako Matsushita
- Lingering Summer Heat in Best New Poets 2011
- The Autumn Breeze and Making a Wish in Iodine Poetry Journal
Courtney Cullinan Robb
- Padre Island in Shadowbox Magazine
- Formula for Grief in Apt
- Floodplains in One Journal
- Piece in Linger Fiction
- Nominated for the AWP Intro Journal Awards in nonfiction by Hollins University
- Melanie Hook Rice Award in the Novel, winner, 2011, winner, 2012
Lauren Smith
- Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, honorable mention, 2011
Benjamin Walker
- Sedatives in Brusque
- Star City, Late Night Radio and Cold was the Ground in Local
- Jim Thorpe Field Day in Weave Magazine
- Mountaintop Removal in burntdistrict
- Pay No Attention to That Land Behind the Curtain in PANK
- I-81 South, After Thanksgiving and Man From the Broken Hills in Blast Furnace Press
- On Malaise and Recovery and Doors Closing Under Washington, 2007 in Dirtflask
- A Gnostic Bedtime Story in A Clean, Well Lighted Place
- 8 Confessions Before the Occupation in Orange Quarterly
- Being Forgotten, Star City, Late Night Radio, The Tent City Curls Inward, and Cold Was the Ground in SOFTBLOW
- The Werther Effect, I Now Declare This to be an Unlawful Assembly and A Dissenter Breaks Protocol in OccuPoetry
- The Summer Georgia Killed Troy Davis in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change
- The Dear Leader’s Quarantine in Prick of the Spindle
Matthew Williams
- Eulogy for the Method in Best New Poets
Hollins MFA 