2024 James Welch Prize

selected by Esther Belin

Winners

KATERI MENOMINEE: from a salt(less) sea to you: return

KARA BRIGGS: Acknowledgment Two

We are delighted to feature our 2024 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio. This PDF matches the layout and formatting as our print edition.

Finalists

MAX EARLY: The Stone Shaped by Song

MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN: Ama/Agua

KINSALE DRAKE: First Date

MICHAEL WASSON: Murals Depicting a Lynching in a Courthouse to House the Idaho Legislature

CASANDRA LÓPEZ: I Try to Write About the Sea but Instead Write Another Dead Brother Poem

CHRIS HOSHNIC: Something is rotten in the state of Trust

MALIA MAXWELL:

IBE LIEBENBERG: quiet wolf