2022 Winnning Entries
- 1st Place:
Room 3788, by Jessica DeHaan
- 2nd Place:
I am the magician’s girl who does not flinch, by Liana Meffert
- 3rd Place:
Trauma Bay: Day to Night, by Nathan Saxby
2022 Honorable mentions
-
Recovery, by AJ Chowdhury
-
Death Pronouncement, by Liana Meffert
2021 Winning Entries
- 1st Place:
The Geography of Memory & Loss by Sarah Ziegenhorn
- 2nd Place:
Unit Purgatory by Claire Castaneda:
- 3rd Place:
Pandemic Parenting During Med School by Jessica De Haan
2021 Honorable Mentions
The Terrible PR of ECT: Why psychiatry's most effective therapy for depression is also its most controversial by Cheryl Wang
Synchronizing Idiosyncracies by Mason LaMarche
NTD. by Holly Conger
2020 Winning Entries
- 1st Place:
Awful Grace by Katharine Marsden
- 2nd Place:
Gaze by Miranda Schene
- 3rd Place:
Vietnam Surgeon by Liana Meffert
2020 Honorable Mentions
CoviDiary by Samantha Cheng
Visiting Hours by Alton Dimla
Red and White Beads by Marshall Moyer
Emily's Story and the Expression of Pain by Richard Uhlenhopp
2019 Winners
- 1st Place Winner: "
Moro" by Claire Castaneda
- 2nd Place Winner: "
Yellow, Red and Blue" by Marshall Moyer
- 3rd Place Winner: "
August & Everything After" by Liana Meffret
2018 Winners
- 1st Place: "Blind Spot" by Claire Castaneda
- 2nd Place: "Just Like You" by Alton Dimla
- 3rd Place: "When Rivers Run Dry" by Shakoora Sabree
- Honorable Mentions:
- "Band Aid" by Kaci McCleary
- "Keeping Pace" by Evangelia Assimacopoulos
- "Tomato Plants" by Anonymous
2017 Winners
- 1st Place: "Peaches and Acorns" by Alice Ye
- 2nd Place: "SIGECAPS" by Anonymous
- 3rd Place: "How to conform on the wards: six guidelines for the ‘eccentric’ medical student" by Rithu Srikantha
- Honorable Mentions:
- "Credit Overdue: The Life and Work of Vivian Thomas" by Doug Russo
- "I don’t do it for you" by Tyler Klenske
- "852 Days" by Lucille Howard
2016 Winners
- 1st Place: “ Empty Sunrise” (prose)-John NB Pienta
- 2nd Place: “For Papi” (poetry)-Anonymous
- 3rd Place: “Cheap” (prose)-Rachel Schenkel
- Honorable Mention: “Recipe for a Medical Student” (prose)-Anonymous
2015 Winners
- 1st Place:
Dandelions.pdf by Kaci McCleary
- 2nd Place:
On Following Instructions.pdf by Rachel Press Goossen
- 3rd Place: Brown Winter by Alyse Carlson
Honorable mentions
Empty Sunrise.pdf by John Pienta
Dichotomy.pdfby Melissa Palma
The Adventure Behind Every Door.pdf by Jennifer Svendsen
Myocardial Infarction.pdf by Tina Arkee
2014 Winners
- 1st Place:
The Universe Hates Entropy.pdf By Cody Connor
- 2nd Place:
Montfort.pdf By Andrew Fahlgren
- 3rd Place:
To Iowa From Brooklyn.pdf By Alyse Carlson
Honorable mentions
Emblematic.pdf By Elizabeth Anne Marie Thompson
She Knew Me When She Made My Body.pdf By Carly Lewis
Typefacial Reconstruction.pdf By Dylan Todd
Watermark.pdf by John Pienta
2013 Winners
First Place Winner
- Mgbechi Erondu, '15, "
The Last Fisherman.pdf"
Second Place Winner
- Carly Lewis, '16, "
Metamorphosis.pdf"
Third Place Winner
- Anonymous, '13, "
Chemical Attraction.pdf"
Archive
2012 Winners
First Place Winner
- Mgbechi Erondu, '15, "A Homecoming"
Second Place Winner
Andy Fahgren, '14, "Ed G"
Third Place Winner
- Anonymous, "NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS"
Honorable Mentions
- Amy Domeyer-Klenske, '12, "The Human Head is Heavy"
- Kate Robb, '12, Untitled
- Andy Fahlgren, '14, "Charolais Bum"
2011
First Place Winner
- Andy Fahlgren, ’14, “Moon for K. B.”
Second Place Winner
- Anonymous, “Yet To Be But Dated”
Third Place Winner
- David Shaha, ’13, “Tommy's Tower”
Honorable Mentions
- Amy Domeyer-Klenske, ’12, “M3 Student History and Physical”
- Anonymous, untitled
- Miriam Weiner, ’15, “The Yard”
2010
First Place
- "Dirty Little Feet", by Brent Nichols, '10,
Second Place
- “The Grinding Stone”, by Shandhini Raidoo, '11
Third Place
- “Under the Microscope”, by Amy Domeyer, '12,
Honorable Mentions
- “Twenty-Nine Percent”, Anonymous
- “pandeiro”, Kathleen Miller, '13
- untitled body of work, by Catharyn Turner, '10
2009
First Place
- Gathering Light, by Nicholas Gregory, M2G
Second Place
- “But Sometimes She Dreams of the Sea” by Harmony Schuttler, '11
Third Place
- “Breathless”, by Amy Jongeling, '09
Honorable Mention
- “terrified”, by Lauren Hughes, '09
- “February” and “Morning Rounds”, by Brent Nichols, '10
2008
First Prize
- "A Numbers Game", by Benjamin Lewis, ’08
Second Prize
- "The Position of the Uterus", by Micheil Cannistra, ’11
- "Leonard Susskind", by Benjamin Lewis, ’08
Third Prize
- "Fall", by Shandhini Raidoo, ’11
Honorable Mention
- "It was my rose to pick", by Brent Nichols, ’10
2007
First Prize
- "Placenta" and "Long call", or the shrinking man by Hilary Buri, '08
Second Prize
- "A Smaller, More Palatable Version of Pain" and "On Bicycling and Forgetting", by Benjamin Lewis, '08
Third Prize
- "Tethered", by Ashley '07
Honorable Mention
- "Growing Up", by Shinkai Hakimi, '07
- "Pacing", "She Waits", "Growth", and "Doc", by Ginny Harris, '11
- "Code Blue", by Amanda Moen, '09
- "Sunday Mourning", by Brent Nichols, '10
2006
First Prize
- "Working at the Bedside" by Ashley Sens, '07
Second Prize
- "Morning" by Anne-Marie Leuck, '07
Third Prize
- "The Thought Bridge" by Benjamin R. Lewis, '08
Honorable Mention
- "So that I might see...", Anonymous
- "As it were" by Hilary Buri, M2
- "The Ngclolosi Awareness Center" by Benjamin R. Lewis, '08
- "One of Two" by Ernesto Medina, '10
- "Maria" by Ernesto Medina, '10
2005
First Place
- "Needle Night", by Hilary Buri, '08
Second Place
- "Transfer", by Kevin Wyne, '05
Third Place
- "The Hyoid Bone", by Benjamin R. Lewis, '08
Honorable Mention
- "Prism", by Sara Brenner, '06
- "Relative Happiness", by Beth Wadsworth, '05
2004
First place
- "Liquid Paradise" by Sara Brenner, '06
Second place
- "Switching Tags" by Anna Peter, '11
Third place
- "Reckoning with Tre" by Maggie Siska, '07
- "Presence"; From the "admiring bog"; and "Failure to thrive" by Ellen Kitchell, '05
Honorable mentions
- "I was surfing" by Ron Boeding, '08
- "Me Gusta Camarones" by Katie Iossi, '08
- "flowerlost" and "Raped" by Haley Newbrough, '04
- "La Avenida" by Margaret Roth, '04
- "Stories from Within" by Ashley Sens, '07
- "Transfer" and "Hurricane" by Kevin Wyne, '05
-
, by Liana Meffert
-
Recovery, by AJ Chowdhury