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Results of the 2024 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York


AUGUST 5, 2024    |    CONTEST RESULTS





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The editors of Southern Humanities Review are proud to announce the results of our eleventh annual poetry contest honoring the late Jake Adam York, award-winning poet and alumnus of Auburn University’s creative writing program. This year’s final judge—celebrated poet Victoria Chang—selected our winner. The winner, runners-up, and honorable mentions will appear together in Volume 57.3, which will be published in the Fall of 2024.

The poems and poets honored this year are preceded by an outstanding collection of work from our 2014 - 2023 Auburn Witness Poetry Prizes. Learn more about Jake Adam York, our prize, and past winners here.


WINNER

Erika Jing

for her poem “Follow”

Erika Jing writes and studies history and literature at Williams College. She is a junior editor at Sine Theta Magazine.

OUR WINNER RECEIVES $1,000 AND WILL PARTICIPATE IN A READING PRESENTED BY THE JULE COLLINS SMITH MUSEUM OF FINE ART AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY THIS OCTOBER TO READ HER POETRY ALONGSIDE CONTEST JUDGE VICTORIA CHANG.



RUNNERS-UP

Andrew Hemmert   “So Tell Me How It Ends”
Wesley Rothman   “Wanted: Rivers”
Felicia Zamora   “Xibalbá :: Extinction”


HONORABLE MENTIONS

Gregory Emilio   “Blank Pages in the Short Book of Hunger”
Jenny Qi   “Flagellum”
Geneva Toland   “No Milk in This Country // Removal Is a Word That Absolves Itself”
Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani   “A Queen in the Zugzwang of Life”


OUR RUNNERS-UP AND HONORABLE MENTIONS WILL HAVE THEIR WORK PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 57.3 ALONGSIDE THE CONTEST'S WINNER.


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