WALLACE PRIZE
Meet the Winners of the 2024 Wallace Prize!

Read the winners of the 2024 Wallace Prize on the YDN website or in our digital issue.   Maude Lechner is a senior in Berkeley […]

Announcing the winners of the 2024 Wallace Prize

  The Yale Daily News Magazine is thrilled to publish the winners of the 2024 Wallace Prize. The Wallace Prize recognizes previously unpublished fiction and nonfiction […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]

FICTION: The Skin Shed

Illustration by Anna Chamberlin This piece received an honorable mention in the fiction category of the 2o24 Wallace Prize. Here’s Lisa May, in late-night lamplight, […]

Illustration by Anna Chamberlin
FICTION: Poster Child

Illustration by Thisbe Wu This piece received third place in the fiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. When the girl named Lucy Tatum was […]

Illustration by Thisbe Wu
FICTION: Deliverance

Illustration by Emily Zhang This piece received second place in the fiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. Dr. David Rosen had lived in Lubbock […]

Illustration by Emily Zhang
FICTION: Camouflage

Illustration by Anna Chamberlin This piece received first place in the fiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. I won’t deny that it did take […]

Illustration by Anna Chamberlin