Each year, Grinnellians compete for prizes and kudos in several creative writing competitions.

First prize winners for 2008 (shown left to right) are:

• Amanda Gotera '09,
• Ben Osburg '08, and
• Jamie Alper '09.

Award winners were recognized during a formal reading from the Grinnell Review, the College's mainstream journal of art and literature, on Thursday, May 8.

This year's winners and winning entries are:

1st prize, $100 given by the Academy of American Poetry

Jamie Alper '09, "For Father at Arbor Lake"

2nd prize, no monetary award

Wesley Jenkins '09, "The History of Fruit"

Scott Brennen '08, "Sweet Millie Is Dead"

1st prize, $1,000

Ben Osburg '08, "Parts"

2nd prize, $500 each

Andrew Lippman '09, "Why Don't They Sing About You, Mr. Mantel?"

Tyson Stock '09, "Bound To"

(4 poems submitted and judged as a collection)

1st prize, $1,000

Amanda Gotera '09

• "Cooking in a Stranger's House"
• "Insides Out"
• "Kitchen Prayer"
• "Sestina for the Nile Flooding"

2nd prize, $500 each

Emily Ranney '08

• "Fable"
• "Stroke"
• "Watercolor Sketch from Exurbia"
• "Danaë"

Andrew Lippman '09

• "A Drowning"
• "Recovering Anne"
• "For Sullie, Who Wasn't"
• "To Michael Who I Knew in Fifth Grade"