MAGGIE NONFICTION AWARD
Though our nonfiction awards have been through several iterations and included several subgenres, we're now bunching them together in our Maggie Nonfiction Award. This will be an honorary award (non-monetary) which we hope to resume in early 2025 reflecting the pieces accepted in 2024.
2021 winner - Anne Gudger's "How to Prepare for Widowed" (creative nonfiction)
Eastern Iowa Review's Editor's Choice Lyric Essay Award (2018)
1st place: Eanlai Cronin's "Written in Stone" (lyric essay)
2nd place: Robert Miltner's "Narrow Roads North: Nine Haibun" (prose poetry)
3rd place: A. M. Thompson's "Greta, Gardening" (prose poetry)
Honorable Mention: Biman Roy's "Of Moon and Washing Machine" (prose poetry)
1st place: Eanlai Cronin's "Written in Stone" (lyric essay)
2nd place: Robert Miltner's "Narrow Roads North: Nine Haibun" (prose poetry)
3rd place: A. M. Thompson's "Greta, Gardening" (prose poetry)
Honorable Mention: Biman Roy's "Of Moon and Washing Machine" (prose poetry)
2017 Award Winners
EIR Issue 3 Longform Lyric Essay Award
Gregory Ormson for "Midwest Intimations"
Honorable Mention
Paula Marafino Bernett for "The Smallest Leaning Begins ..."
2016 Award Winners
EIR Lyric Essay Award
First Place (tie)
Raphael Kosek for "Meditations on the Common Life"
Carole Giangrande for "Goshawk"
Finalists
Laura Bernstein-Machlay for "Dirty Cities"
Jennifer Knight for "Life Code"
Honorable Mention
Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb for "The Address Book: A Psychological Analysis"
Alisa Golden for "Switchbacks"
EIR Experimental Essay Award
First Place (tie)
Ashley Kunsa for "How to Write Your Life in the Second-Person"
Myron Michael for "Word on the Street (B-Side Epistle)"
Finalists
Robert Kirvel for "BioYou"
Sarah Weaver for "This Same Place"
EIR Issue 3 Longform Lyric Essay Award
Gregory Ormson for "Midwest Intimations"
Honorable Mention
Paula Marafino Bernett for "The Smallest Leaning Begins ..."
2016 Award Winners
EIR Lyric Essay Award
First Place (tie)
Raphael Kosek for "Meditations on the Common Life"
Carole Giangrande for "Goshawk"
Finalists
Laura Bernstein-Machlay for "Dirty Cities"
Jennifer Knight for "Life Code"
Honorable Mention
Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb for "The Address Book: A Psychological Analysis"
Alisa Golden for "Switchbacks"
EIR Experimental Essay Award
First Place (tie)
Ashley Kunsa for "How to Write Your Life in the Second-Person"
Myron Michael for "Word on the Street (B-Side Epistle)"
Finalists
Robert Kirvel for "BioYou"
Sarah Weaver for "This Same Place"
