Prizes Offered

First place (one winner): $350 cash prize, renewable scholarship of up to $5,000 at Hollins University, free tuition and housing for the university’s Hollinsummer creative writing program





Publication in Cargoes, Hollins’ award-winning student literary magazine (along with 10 copies to keep)





Second place (six winners): ​Publication in Cargoes and two copies to keep





Renewable scholarship of up to $1,000 at Hollins University





$500 scholarship to apply toward the university’s Hollinsummer creative writing program