Award Winners
On occasion, Shannaghe supports other organizations in the quest to promote new voices and excellent work. Here are the folks we've supported so far.
Theresa Dietrich won the 2024 Another Chicago Magazine nonfiction prize for her braided narrative, “Porches.”Author and editor S.L. Wisenberg was the judge. The first-place prize: publication in ACM and a residency at Shannaghe.
Poet Molly Bolton won the 2024 Camden Poetry Festival prize for her chapbook, What Blooms in the Dark, which means publication by Toad Hill Editions, a major cash prize, and a residency with us. Judge Marie Howe wrote of this work, "All the world at once is what is held in the lines of these poems...I returned again and again to these poems and was nourished."
Essayist and author Paula Carter's searching memoirist essay "Correction Lines" took the 2023 nonfiction prize at Another Chicago Magazine. Author and editor S.L. Wisenberg was the judge.
In 2025, Shannaghe awarded its first Fellowship in Care. Meet the recipients here.