Eudora Welty Ephemera Prize for High School Creative Writing Anthologies - Welty Writers' Symposium

• Georgia Bailey, “Death” and “Too Soon”
• Emelia Bosarge, “Becoming the Witch”
• Anthony Bradley, “Atrophied Ambition”
• Ava Grace Noe, “Morning Glory”
• Iris Sue, “Speech Delayed yet Purpose Undeterred”

Honorable Mentions:

• Crislyn Lance, “Melodies of LIfe”
• Claire Rizzo, “I Miss Most Those I’ll Never Meet”
• Amelia Whitaker,“Carvings From the Wind”

Judges: Halle Hill and Claude Wilkinson

• Makenzie Brannon, “The Side of the Road in Columbus, MS”
• Chloe Dobbins, “A Day No Fish Would Die”
• Nathané George, “Dirty”
• Elliot Nix, “Inhospitable Hometowns”
• Ava Grace Noe, “Dead Chickens in the Fence”

Honorable Mentions:

• Maryann Dang, “A Stir-Fry of Tradition;
• Erin Erter, “September 2, 1963”
• Joseph Hanna,“There Is No Town Named Charlesville”

Judges: Chantal James and Jacqueline Allen Trimble

• Jordan Isbell, “Okolona, Mississippi: The Little City That Does ‘Big Things’”
• Kinjal Patel, “The Lockdown”
• J.B. Snodgrass, “The Word of the Lord”
• Emma Spinks, “Mississippi”
• Benjamin Tabor, “What a Hunter Hears”

Honorable Mentions:

• Jordan Brown, “If Anything Happens to Me”
• Jazmine Henry, “The Inevitable”
• Jacob McGee,“Why Faith and Not Sight”
• Megan Waits, “Blindsided”
• Locklyn Wilchynski, “A Monument of Sunshine”

Judges: Kendra Allen and Annette Saunook Clapsaddle

• Joshua Bates of Forest, “I Apologize If You Feel Something”
• Callie Matthews of Meridian, “Reclaiming the Soil You Sprouted From”
• Skylar Nichols of Laurel, “Stitches, Scissors, & Seams,” “Early Sunday Mornings,” and “Homebodies”
• Lauren Stamps of Mount Olive,  “Midnight by the Pearl”
• Abilyn Strain of Columbus, “I Call That Beautiful”

Honorable Mention:

• Luke Bowles of Buckatunna, “So This Is Wayne County”
• Jaylin Jones of Clarksdale, “Submerged in the South” and “Open-Casket”
• Raeed Kabir of Biloxi, “Individualism of Culture”
• Amelia Pope of Aberdeen, “Can’t I Live and Be?”
• Stephanie Ressel of Vancleave, “Lock and Key”

Judges: Juyanne James and Sandra Meek

• Felicity Browning of Pascagoula, “Hometown Wilted”
• Ryley Fallon of Lucedale, “Speech Leapin’”
• Lily Langstaff of Olive Branch, “Backyard Bugs”
• Abilyn Marie Strain of Columbus, “Home(less)” and “King Street” 
• Shelby Tisdale of Pearl, “Southside Sunday,” “Smoke,” and “So This is Mississippi” 

Honorable Mention:

• Abby Amos of Columbus, “I am Three, I am Me”
• Violet Jira of Cleveland, “Snow for Sky”
• Asya Lyons of Jackson, “Why I Live at the P. O.”
• Imani Skipwith of Jackson, “Mama Mississippi” Poem and “The Southern Struggle”

Judges:  T. J. Anderson III and Cary Holladay

• Danail Dimitrov of Ackerman, "Speaking English”
• Victoria Gong of Vicksburg, "Monsoon Season”
• Luong Huynh of Pascagoula, “Do You Hear Me?”
• Indu Nandula of Cleveland, "Red Bindis and Potato Curry”
• Katherine Westbrook of Wesson, "Splintered: The Story of an Almost-Empath”

Honorable Mention:

• Taylor Downs of Yazoo City, “Parental Teachings”
• Dev Jaiswal of Louisville, “Color”
• Peter Nguyen of D'Iberville, "Across the Water”
• Sarah Perry of Columbus, “Photographs”
• Madison Wypyski of Pass Christian, "Heath Ledger and Hip-Hugging Jeans”

Judges: Pauline Kaldas and Adam Vines

• Alex Monterde of Purvis, "Soy Beans and Shrimp"
• Helen Peng of Starkville, "Ode to Dixie"
• Amber Jackson of Jackson, "Interdependence"
• Michelle Luo of New Albany, "In the Snow"

Honorable Mention:

• Juliana Wilkins of Columbus, "Living with Zombies"
• Billy Guevara of Richland, "The Gift"
• Alyson Espy of Clarksdale, "Absolute Pitch"
• Anjeli Hoskins of Pascagoula, "Traveling the Mississippi Gulf Coast"
• Allison McElhenney of Columbus, "Reflections and Dreams"
• Jagger Riggle of Pontotoc, "Calhoun County"
• Victoria Gong of Vicksburg, "In Mississippi"
• Mariat Thankachan of Clarksdale, "Speaks the Mississippi Story"
• Indu Nandula of Cleveland, "The Long Winding Road"
• Daja Sayles of Richland, "Johnathan"

Judges: James E. Cherry and Jacqueline Allen Trimble