About JuxtaProse Contests
Each year, JuxtaProse sponsors a fiction contest, a nonfiction contest, a poetry contest for individual poem, and a poetry chapbook contest. We also occasionally sponsor others. To enter our contests, or view the respective guidelines, please visit our Submittable page.
Previous contest winners
Fiction
The winner of our recent fiction contest has been notified and they will be listed on this page as soon as we receive confirmation that they have accepted the prize.
2021-2022 JuxtaProse Fiction Prize winner
Dereka Thomas for “Everyone Prays in the End”
2020-2021 JuxtaProse Fiction Prize winner
Katherine Van Dis for “Islands'”
2019-2020 JuxtaProse Fiction Prize winner
David Crouse for “Sixty-Eight Seventy”
2018 JuxtaProse Fiction Prize winner
Jaime Campbell for “Vanishing Twin”
Nonfiction
2021-2022 JuxtaProse Nonfiction Prize winner
Merrill Feitell for “The Trail'”
2020-2021 JuxtaProse Nonfiction Prize winner
Elissa Minor Rust for “The Umpire Calls ‘Time'”
2019-2020 JuxtaProse Nonfiction Prize winner
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher for “Silver Dollar Drive-In”
2018 JuxtaProse Nonfiction Prize winner
Kimberly Ence for “Chewing Thistle”
Poetry
2023-2024 JuxtaProse Poetry Prize winner
Richard Stimac for “Names”
2022-2023 JuxtaProse Poetry Prize winner
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier for “Wire Monkey”
2021-2022 JuxtaProse Poetry Prize winner
Brendan Todt for “Because I Am Human”
2020-2021 JuxtaProse Poetry Prize winner
Slade Graves for “An Admission of Information”
2019 JuxtaProse Poetry Prize winner
Liliana Rehorn for “You Wanted Me To Go With You”
2018 JuxtaProse Poetry Prize winner
Xiao Yue Shan for “If Beauty Is Nothing But the Beginning of Terror”
Chapbook
2023-2024 JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize winner
Ditta Baron Hoeber for “Loss Is Loss”
2022-2023 JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize winner
Anthony Emerson for “Wilderness Dreams”
2021-2022 JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize winner
Nikki Ummel for “Bloom”
2020-2021 JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize winner
Rachel Kaufman for “And After the Fire”
2019 JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize winner
John Sibley Williams for “Summon”
Misc.
2018 JuxtaProse Student Writing Contest winners
Connor Yeck for “Universal Newsreels, Vol. 31, #21: “Dead A-Bomb Hits U.S. Town” (Poetry category)
Sabrina Melendez for “Pink Beans” (Prose category)