2024 Winning Entries

• First place: " Speechless," by Jackson Dunning
• Second place: " The Well," by William Moody 
• Third place: " Misting Syndrome" by Stein Acker

2023 Winning Entries

• 1st Place:  Balancing Act, by Linda Peng
• 2nd Place: Nine, by Sally Heaberlin
• 3rd Place: When the Mask Fits, by Maryam Ahmad

2023 Honorable mentions:

• The Medical Industrial Nightmare, by Anonymous
• In My Veins, by Will Moody 
• Life In Parentheses, by Sally Heaberlin

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

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•  Recovery, by AJ Chowdhury