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Terrain.org Announces the Winners of the 16th Annual Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction Contests!

Emily Grandy

Emily Grandy Wins the 2025 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for the Novel Cupido Cupido

Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

Announcing the 2025 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Finalists

Terrain.org Congratulates the Winners of the 15th Annual Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction Contests!

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Lopez Cottage Residency and $1K Travel Funding Added to Sowell Emerging Writers Prize: Deadline Nov. 15

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Submit Your Fiction Manuscript September 15 – November 15 for Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

Ibe Liebenberg

Chickasaw Poet Ibe Liebenberg Wins 2024 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

Contest Fiction

Bust

By Hannah Smith
Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest in Fiction Winner

Turkey vulture

One Poem by Tim Raphael

Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest in Poetry Winner

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Contest Nonfiction

Equations for a Falling Body

By Katie Duane
Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest in Nonfiction Winner

River in the Amazon rainforest

One Poem by John Calderazzo

Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest in Poetry Finalist

Milky Way above hills

Contest Nonfiction

An Acre of Darkness

By Ellen Goldstein
Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest in Nonfiction Finalist

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