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 Bellinghamâ€
Second Prize: Carla Macedo, “Parking Garageâ€
Third Prize: Aubrey Laine Baker, â€ÂÙ²Ô²¹²µ²µ±ô±ð³Ù´Ç´Ç³Ù³óâ€
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, Second Prize: Cheyan Swan, Third Prize: Katherine Sutton, |
2018-2019
First Prize: Nicole Caldwell,
Second Prize: Tricia Manzano,
Third Prize: Laura Wildfang,
2017-2018
First Prize: Madeleine Hannah,
Second Prize: Kendall Cohns,
Third Prize: Nicole Caldwell’s,
2016-2017
First Prize: Kathryn Sinor, “Cosmonauts”
Second Prize: Stevie Lamica, “A Woman’s Shackles”
Third Prize: Nicole Caldwell, “Adamantine”

