NONFICTION
ALLIE GRUBER
The Pre-Raphaelites: A Series of Encounters 

This piece received third place in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. When I was nineteen it was my simple pleasure to walk […]

September 28, 2025

DIEGO DEL AGUILA
Little Pentagon

This piece received second place in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. You are a child in Lima, Peru, and like any child, […]

September 28, 2025

WILL LEGGAT
Great Bones in Highland

This piece received first place in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. I am nine years old walking across the living room with […]

September 28, 2025

CAMERON NYE
Giving Grace to the Fry Cook

This piece received an honorable mention in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. Whenever anyone gets hired at McDonald’s, they’re usually told that […]

September 28, 2025

ETAI SMOTRICH-BARR
As Many Hats As Pleases The Maker

This piece received an honorable mention in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. On a Saturday this fall, Catherine Cazes-Wiley took the train […]

September 28, 2025

CARTER FLEMMING
NONFICTION: A Game Ends in Twilight

At some point, on a cool summer evening, Mike listened to a baseball game crackle out of his back porch window for the last time […]

February 10, 2025

ARDEN YUM
NONFICTION: Bathhouse

This piece received an honorable mention in the nonfiction category of the 2o24 Wallace Prize.   Niseko, Japan.  After sliding off my snow-soaked boots, I […]

May 8, 2024

LARA MOHAMED
NONFICTION: My Grandparents’ Villa

This piece received an honorable mention in the nonfiction category of the 2o24 Wallace Prize. Every inch of a typical Nubian home along the Nile […]

May 8, 2024

ZOE LARKIN
NONFICTION: Chicken Person

This piece received third place in the nonfiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. Before you see the birds at Tardif Poultry Farm and Feed […]

May 8, 2024

JOHN NASH
NONFICTION: Maishe’s Bower

This piece received second place in the nonfiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. The Vogelkop Bowerbird lives in the Arfak mountains of western New […]

May 8, 2024

AYA OCHIAI
NONFICTION: English Station

This piece received first place in the nonfiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. I was on the 212 bus from Lowe’s back to campus; […]

May 8, 2024