WINNER
Anya Johnson
AWARDED $1000
Anya Johnson’s fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in POETRY, Pembroke 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