Winners of 2025 Creative Writing Contests Announced

The Department of English Language and Literature is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Joyce Marshall Hsia Memorial Poetry Prize and Margó Takacs Marshall Prize for Excellence in Short Story Writing.

Joyce Marshall Hsia Memorial Poetry Prize

• First Prize – “A Collection on Disability and Women” by Kiley Bleich

• Second Prize – "Women in the Family” by Callie Lloyd
• Third Prize – “Original Poems” by Melodie Jacquot-Paratte.
• Honourable Mention - “You Hated When I Said I Love You” by Samantha Lord

Margó Takacs Marshall Prize for Excellence in Short Story Writing

• First prize –  “Untitled” (Augustus, Runa, Hana) by Alexander Martin.
• Second prize – “In the Arms of the Dying" by Anecia Shepherd
• Third prize –  “The Fires of Salvation” by Grayson Kennedy
• Honourable Mention - “You, Mother” by Callie Lloyd