Writer Awards
Sponsored by The Nassau Community College Foundation
2022 Writer Awards Winners
Matthew Wallenstein
for the poem
“Fire Flies Outside The Garage”
Renée K. Nicholson
for the creative nonfiction piece
“The Night is Yours Alone”
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These pieces appear in our 2022 issue of The Nassau Review.
All submissions received during the submission period are considered for the Writer Awards. Every period will offer $250 for prose and $250 for poetry. *pending budget approval
Members of the Nassau Community College community are not eligible to win these awards.
Members of the NCC community include past and current staff, faculty, and administrators as well as current students. Alumni students are eligible. If you have questions about eligibility, email nassaureview@ncc.edu with the email subject line: Contest Eligibility Query
Previous Winners
2020
Poetry: Hibah Shabkhez for “Cloud Dragons"
Prose: Meg Mahoney for “A Man of Morocco”
2019
Poetry: Federico Federici for “The Waste Wall” & “November, 1961”
Prose: Paul Luikart for “Barclay Station”
2018
Poetry: Denise Sedman for poem "Channeling Bo Carter"
Prose: Toti O'Brien for the short story "Nicotine"
2017
Poetry: Brent Fisk for poem "Black Beauty"
Prose: Allison Sobczak for the short story "Set the World on Fire"
2016
Poetry: Saima Afreen for the poem “You Who Always Eluded Me”
Prose: Laura Bernstein-Machlay for the creative non-fiction piece “Cheaters”
2015
Poetry: Elizabeth Aoki for the poem “Automata Factory”
Prose: Liz Dolan for the short story “Love Him To Death”
2014
Poetry: L. N. Malnack, "The Inertia of a Body Depends Upon Its Energy Content," poem
Prose: Karen Weyant, "Compromising Chiroptophobia, or Why I'm Giving Up and Learning to Love the Bat," creative non-fiction
2013
Poetry: Jennifer Woodworth, “Crows Over Wheatfield,” poem
Prose: Wayne Sheer, “The Love Song of Langley Moran,” short story
2012
Poetry: JodiAnn Stevenson, “A Thousand Birds,” prose poem
Prose: Dan Berkowitz, “Sourpuss,” flash fiction
2011
(appear in the 2012 issue)
Poetry: Katie Manning, “Sleeping Beauty’s Mother,” narrative poem
Prose: Liz Dolan, “What's Like What, ” creative non-fiction
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