Past Winners

2008 Awards

Rosenberry Prize

  • First Place: Valerie Ross, for “One Day”

Poetry

  • First Place: Valerie Ross, for “One Day”
  • Honorable Mention: Max Cassity, for “Modernism”
  • Honorable Mention: Nate Howe, for “Sympathy”

Fiction

  • First Place: Nathan Fuhr, for “Recantation of the floating World”

Creative Nonfiction

  • First Place: Nate Howe, for “This is only a test”
  • Honorable Mention: Melissa Morgan, for “You are now leaving fabulous Las Vegas”

2007 Winners:

Poetry:

  • 1st Place : Erika Hildner
  • Honorable Mention : Nathan Howe

Fiction:

  • 1st Place : Ben Pool

Creative Non-Fiction:

  • 1st Place : Melissa Morgan

2007 Rosenberry Prize winner: 

  • Erika Hildner

2006 Winners:

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Hollows by Laurin Becker
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • One New Message by Shannon Charles
    • Back to Why We are Really Here by Jess Walter

Creative Non-Fiction

  • 1st Place: The Names of Things by Simone Nicole Gallik
  • Honorable Mention:
    • Starry Night Over Greeley by Peter Derk

Fiction

  • 1st Place: Vodka Tonic by Kira Goo
  • Honorable Mention:
    • Struggle by Glen Milan

Laurin Becker, winner of the 2006 Rosenberry Prize:

Laurin Becker

2006 Winners, (l to r): Laurin Becker, Kira Goo, Simone Gallik, Peter Derk, Jess Walter, Shannon Charles:

2006 Writers Conference Winners

2005 Winners:

  • Fiction Winner: Steven Dolence for “Vocalese”
  • Fiction Honorable Mention:
    • Briana Hovendick for “Selling the Farm”
  • Poetry Winner: Deborah Kido for “Breathe”
  • Poetry Honorable Mentions
    • Erika Hildner for “Creation”
    • Michelle Cordova for “Early Elegy”
  • Creative Non-Fiction Winner: Nathan Howe for “Nostalgia”

Walter Rosenberry with Steven Dolence, winner of the 2005 Rosenberry Prize:

Walter Rosenberry

2004 Winners:

  • Fiction Winner: Michelle Cordova for “While Ladders and Songs like Death”
  • Poetry Winner: Eric Neilsen for “Elegy for My Brother”