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Touchstone

Department of English

English/Counseling Services Building

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS 66506

touch@k-state.edu

Award Winners

2016

Nonfiction:

1st Place: Charlie King-Hagen, "On Rain: or, a love letter to my father"

2nd Place: Margaret Lang, "Absence Unfelt: Eight Things I Didn't Know I Never Had."

Fiction:

1st Place: Dustin Vann, "The Director"

2nd Place: Anna Meyer, "Devotion"

Poetry: 

No Awards Given

Art:

1st Place: Josh Nolan, "Home"

2nd Place: Abby Schleicher, "Discord"

2014

NonFiction:

1st Place: Grant Samms, "What Are the Odds" 

2nd Place: Chelsea Aeschliman, "The House that Built Me" 

Fiction:

1st Place: Charles King-Hagen, "Hazel Kinder's Lighthouse Theater" 

2nd Place: Tanner Rush, "Sirens"

Poetry:

1st Place: Dillon Rockrohr, "Mid Campus" 

2nd Place: Cormac Badger, "Everyone Can Pick Up Heavier Things than Me" 

Flash Fiction:

1st Place: Charles King-Hagen, "John Player Specials" 

2nd Place: Kari Bingham-Gutierrez, "Payday Loans" 

Art:

1st Place: Gabrielle DeFonso, "Here's Johnny" 

2nd Place: Brian Hampel, "The Seer in his Study" 

2013

Fiction

1st Place: Erin Coldirn, "When the Painting Cracks"

2nd Place: Jessica Sovick, "The Skull with the Tear Drop"

Nonfiction

1st Place: Shannon Brooks, "Finding Time"

2nd Place: Charlesia McKinney, "The Beauty in Labels"

Poetry

1st Place: Kenan Dannenberg, "The Place on the Wall Where the Picture Used to Hang"

2nd Place: Meghan Bing, "I Like the Sound of That"

2011

Fiction:

1st Place: Jacob Smith, "Windrows" by Jacob Smith

2nd Place: Elisabeth Short, "The Massacre at No Gun Ri"

Nonfiction:

1st Place: Kaylea Pallister, "We'll Get There When We Get There" 

2nd Place: Emily Schomaker, "Through the Lens of a Face Shield"

Poetry:

1st Place: Dan Hornsby, "The Goddess of Destruction Single-Handedly Kills a Chicken Somewhere in Mexico"

2nd Place: John Quinn, "Headlines From Earth"

Art:

1st Place: Cody Hadrick, "Happy Halloween"

2010

Fiction:

1st Place: Kate Harland, "A Wedding Announcement"

2nd Place: Megan Travelstead, "Ruth Walks Her Strawberry Step"

Nonfiction:

1st Place: Bethaney Wallace, "Riding the Wagon"

Poetry:

1st Place: Jimbo Ivy, "How to fuck a stranger"

2nd Place: Heather Etelamaki, "Things Remembered and Not"