Carmen Speer, Annie Mountcastle, Lori Imsdahl, April Walker, Eve Strillacci, Brad Efford, Lacy Barker, Eric Thompson, Elisabeth Aroneau, Michael Loruss
Elisabeth Aroneau
- Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, honorable mention, 2012
Lacy Barker
- Fight or Flight, The Lost Boys, and Ma the Movie Star in Blackbird
- An honorable mention in The Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers
Brad Efford
- My Mother Reads From Her Dream Journal and HAMMERLOCK, 1980 in HOBART
- Guilty Pleasure Manifesto in Oxford Magazine
- Country Prayer: Pater Noster in Sugar House Review
- Elegy, with Holes and Roughhouse in The Monongahela Review
- Northern Lights in jmww, nominated Pushcart Prize 2013
- Gothic American and Sirens in jmww
- Wine Festival, Southwest Virginia in Whurk
- Country Prayer: di Maiores in Juked
- Head-On Blues in DIALOGIST
- Changeling and Inking, 1976 in burntdistrictSpasm and Shadow in PANK
- Laluna in Monkeybicycle
- Dredge in Prime Number Magazine, Longlist, Wigleaf (Very) Short Fiction 2014
- If These Wings Should Fail Me in The Ampersand Review
- Skunk-Weed Mantra in Punchnel’s
- Reclamation in kill author
- Piledriver in Fiction 365
- Believe in Puerto del Sol
- The Conservation of Matter, Elegy, with Holes, and Pride Parade, 1995 in Rappahannock Review
- Four Boomboxes and 02/01/2004 in The Fiddleback
- Arriving in Shadowbox Magazine
- An Open Letter to Undated Yard Sale Signs and the Yard Sale Purveyors Who Make Them in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Lori Imsdahl
- Orange Juice Man in Green Briar Review
- May 1986 in Torrid Literature Journal, Vol. V
- Rich, White Tourist in the Fall 2012 issue of Slow Trains
- Concealed and Dysplasia in the December 2012 issue of Emerge Literary Journal
- Melanie Hook Rice Award in Creative Nonfiction, runner-up, 2012
Michael Loruss
- Among the Living and Dredge in The Paris-American
- Soldiers Name Their Rifles After Lovers in PANK, Issue 8
- Drinking Baghdad in Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, winner, 2013
Annie Mountcastle
- Labor in Rattle
- Tiny Little Nothing in The Greensboro Review, awarded the 2012 Robert Watson Prize for short fiction
- Progression, Notes from Annie, and Petite in Oxford Magazine
- Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, runner-up, 2013
- Melanie Hook Rice Award in the Novel, runner-up, 2013
Eve Strallacci
- Crash Course in Human Astronomy in Sixth Finch
- Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, winner, 2013
Eric Thompson
- Before the World in Word Riot
- An honorable mention in The Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers
- Happy Here for a Minute in Blackbird
- Telegraph Hill in Bodega Magazine
- Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, winner, 2013
April Walker
- Piece in The New Sound
Hollins MFA 