First Place​
Cutter Wood ’06
“Corona”Cutter Wood’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review Daily, and other publications. His first book, Love and Death in the Sunshine State, was the basis for fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and it was selected for the New York Times Book Review’s 2018 summer reading list. His second book is forthcoming from HarperCollins. He is the 2020-21 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at the George Washington University.

Second Place
Mallory A. Kass ’06
“Mannequins”
After graduating from Brown, Mallory received a master’s degree in English Literature from Oxford before becoming an editor at Scholastic Press. Her titles include the New York Times bestsellers A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd and Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly, and the critically-acclaimed House With Chicken Legs. Mallory is also the author of the internationally bestselling series The 100 (as Kass Morgan) which was the inspiration for the hit CW show and has been translated into more than fifteen languages.

Honorable Mentions
Jennifer Silverman '06
"Six Bright Horses and the Land of the Dead"
Jen Silverman’s plays include: Witch, The Roommate, Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties and The Moors. They are published by Samuel French (US), Oberon Books (UK) and S. Fischer-Verlag (Germany). Her story-collection, The Island Dwellers, is published by Random House; her novel is coming out with them in 2021. Jen also writes for TV and film. Jen is a member of New Dramatists, a MacDowell fellow, and recipient of the Yale Drama Series Award.

Meryl Rothstein '06
"Lucy and the Chinese Bandits"
Meryl Rothstein is the features editor at Bon Appetit, where she eats as much dessert as the test kitchen will allow.