Open for submissions now, the Breakout! Prize honors two undergraduate or graduate student writers with a $1000 cash prize in poetry and prose. Our 2025 judges are Victoria Chang and Hilary Leichter.
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Open for submissions now, the Breakout! Prize honors two undergraduate or graduate student writers with a $1000 cash prize in poetry and prose. Our 2025 judges are Victoria Chang and Hilary Leichter.
"If I were to even write it today, it would be a very different book. It might be better in some ways, but it would be probably less emotionally true to how I was feeling."
2024 Breakout! Writers Prize Winners: Marilyn Ramirez in prose, and Corey Baron in poetry
Honors undergraduate writers and graduate students pursuing writing careers
This year’s Breakout! Writers Prize Winners: Chelsea Dingman and Tzu Hsien (Charlene) Huang