The 2024 Ginny Padgett Award in Creative Writing

First Prize
Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island
Caitlyn Costa (College of Charleston)

Second Prize
Turns
Henry Wells (University of South Carolina – Aiken)

Third Prize
Oh, Clementine
Gracie Belk (University of South Carolina)

Fiction

The Dungeon Artist, San Cristobal Castle, 1798
Tricia Gates Brown

The Preacher and the Mynah Bird
Dea Jones

Good Girls are Hard to Find
Anna Moore

First Date
Liz Newall

Winter Hands
Erin Slaughter

Nonfiction

Home Haircut
Ellen Arnold

Waves Through the World
Joshua Forehand

Homeplace
Jason Green

Poetry

Visiting Jenny
Kelly Arnold

Coal Anniversary
Rebecca Biber

I come back
Pam Campbell

The Mummy’s Curse
Vincent Casaregola

Hurricane
Cassandra Caverhill

Consumption
Luke Eldredge

Come Home
Beverly George

Years of Salt
Paul Ilechko

Sketches
William Rieppe Moore

How to Fall in Love in Georgia (Again)
Jessi Jeanne Reath

The space between gray and white
Christina Ruotolo

Sangin’
Sara Shea

Love Poem
Kathryn Temple

copperhead
Lucinda Trew

Art

Jerry Craven (accompanying The Preacher and the Mynah Bird, Good Girls Are Hard to Find, First Date, and Winter Hands)

Bridada (accompanying I come back, Hurricane, Consumption, and Years of Salt)