LitFest
LitFest
This annual celebration displays the graduation class's chapbooks, awards the Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize to the winners, and celebrates the work of our students! The first half of the event is a semi-casual graduation ceremony for second years and a reflection on the academic year, followed by a celebration with food for our community at the Tawes Rooftop Gardens.
2023 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize Winners
The Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House and Stylus: A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Art are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize.
A writing contest open to all University of Maryland, College Park undergraduate students. First Place winners receive $200; 2nd Place $150, and 3rd place $75. Prizewinners will be honored and read excerpts of their winning works at LitFest.
Thank you to all who submitted work to the contest!
Prose Awards
1st Place: Willow Whitaker for “DON’T YOU WANT ME”
2nd Place: Mia Ferraro for “Confession of a Barren Hypocrite”
3rd Place: Hannah Bray for “About Face”
Finalists in alphabetical order:
Alexandra Higgins for “The Language of Bones”
Carey Cameron for “Traduzione/Translation”
Cassandra Rochmis for “Icarus”
Eric Zhu for “The Outside Looking In”
Jillian Rasch for “Bradshaw”
Mia Ferraro for “Confession of a Barren Hypocrite”
Miele Murray for “Broken Clocks”
Walter Osborne for “Why I Moved to Santa Fe”
Poetry Awards
1st Place: Isabella Cusack for "Mayflies"
2nd Place: Sawdah Munir for "words for remembering"
3rd Place: Sarah Meador for "Sandcrabs"
Finalists in alphabetical order:
Beatrice Mazzon for “In A Child’s Dress”
Emily Herberholz for “Surgical, 2009.”
Hannah Campion for “Freeing the Letters” and “Fear Will Not Be My Name”
Lijon Guiyab for “Be PHO real Recipe”
Sarah Benjumea for “Sinner”
Yooeun Lee for “Touch”