The results of the 2024 Deep Wild Journal Graduate Student Prose Contest are in! Contest judges Susan Marsh of Jackson, Wyoming and Edmond Stevens of Park City have selected the following essays and stories.

FIRST PLACE, $200

Diana Saverin, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Diana Saverin, MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction, University of Alaska Fairbanks, for her essay “The Other Side of Fear”

RUNNERS UP, $100 each

B A Thompson, PhD candidate in Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, Scotland, for their short story “Whisper of The Wood”

Rebecca Williams, MFA candidate in Nature Writing, Western Colorado University, for her essay “The Red Giant’s Hand”

B A Thompson, University of St Andrews
Rebecca Williams, Western Colorado University

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Louise Stewart, PhD candidate in English—Creative Nonfiction, Ohio University, for their essay, “Earth Could Quake”

Sophie Hoss, MFA candidate in Creative Writing and Literature, Stony Brook University, New York, for her short story, “Little Beast”

The top three pieces will appear in the 2024 issue of Deep Wild Journal, to be released this June, while the Honorable Mentions will be published later this year on the Deep Wild website.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all the student writers from throughout the United States and beyond who sent us work.

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