Peter Sears Poetry Prize
Pictured LTR: 2024-2025 recipients and runner-ups: Carla Macedo, Guthrie Romas, and Aubrey Laine Baker.
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Peter Sears Poetry Prize
Annual Recipients & Runners-up
2024-2025
First Prize: Guthrie Romas, “Spending Time with an Old Man in Bellingham”
Second Prize: Carla Macedo, “Parking Garage”
Third Prize: Aubrey Laine Baker, “Snaggletooth”
2023-2024
First Prize: Sophie Borgstah, “Tens Days After Treatment”
Second Prize: Julian Zeigler, “4 AM”
Third Prize: Lucas Montpart, “Celebrating My 21st Birthday with My Dead Brothers”
| 2019-2020
First Prize: Cylinda Neidenbach, “To Bear Arms” Second Prize: Cheyan Swan, “a spell for revenge” Third Prize: Katherine Sutton, “Flower Crowns” |
2018-2019
First Prize: Nicole Caldwell, “Coming Home.”
Second Prize: Tricia Manzano, “This Too Will Take Some Time.”
Third Prize: Laura Wildfang, “Fly Fishing Romance.”
2017-2018
First Prize: Madeleine Hannah, “Sailing Stones”
Second Prize: Kendall Cohns, “Uneaten Remains of a Horned Lark”
Third Prize: Nicole Caldwell’s, “My Dad Appreciates a Steens Lightning Storm”
2016-2017
First Prize: Kathryn Sinor, “Cosmonauts”
Second Prize: Stevie Lamica, “A Woman’s Shackles”
Third Prize: Nicole Caldwell, “Adamantine”
