WINNER

Anya Johnson

AWARDED $1000

Anya Johnson’s fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in POETRYPembroke Magazine, Afternoon Visitor, Hobart, and on poets.org, among others. She received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University Prize. Anya is the former Poetry Editor for Exposition Review, and a current Editorial Assistant at Fonograf Editions.

We’re proud to have Anya as the inaugural Bob Hicok fellow. We will work with her throughout 2026.

Akhim Yuseff Cabey

Oliver Carmichael

Jason Gray

Jordan Hamel

Tina Kelley

Philip Schaefer

Ross White

FINALISTS

Haseeb Sultan Abdul

Elisa Luna Ady

Allison Albino

Derek Chan

Matt Dhillon

Shira Haus

Divyasri Krishnan

Francis de Lima

Stacy Miller

Nora Sullivan

Steven Turrill

July Westhale

Ammara Younas

SHORTLIST

Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

Valerie Braylovskiy

Julie Danho

Courtney DuChene

Amy Dougher-Solórzano

Jane Huffman

Sophie Kaiser Rojas

Vasvi Kejriwal

Mickie Kennedy

Candace Kronen

Marianne Kunkel

Allen Means

Lisa Mottolo

Migwi Mwangi

Lexi Pelle

Tyler Patton

Ivy Raff

Lauren Richkus

Max Seifert

Kelly Grace Thomas

Stephanie Zinger

LONGLIST