SandScript Contest Winners
2024 Genre Contest Winners
Each edition of SandScript includes a genre-specific contest for visual art, prose, and poetry. All accepted submissions are considered for the contest, and are read blind. The winners of each contest are determined by independent judges unaffiliated with Pima, all of whom are professional writers, poets, and visual artists.
Poetry Winners
Selected by Aria Pahari
1st Place
"Quest for Music"
Eric S. Cerda
2nd Place
"on a night lit only by stars"
Kristin LeBlanc
3rd Place
"A Girl's Purse"
Sierrra Ziemann
Prose Winners
Selected by Jennifer Lee Carrell
1st Place
"Filling"
Matt Stewart
2nd Place
"El Regreso"
RubenDario Herrera Molina
3rd Place
"Trans⬩Verse"
Tae Esperanza Cooper
Visual Art Winners
Selected by Ernesto Trujillo, BFA, MFA
1st Place
"Jazzy Skeleton Serenade Over Midnight Sword Fight"
Rowan Bartlett
2nd Place
"Expansion"
Minha Bennett
3rd Place
"Spectrum of Harmony"
Deja Monee Bester
Honorable Mention
"Submerged"
Fiona Antonini
2023 Genre Winners
Poetry
Selected by Naomi Ortiz
1st Place - A Tugal Ligation is a Non-Reversible Procedure - Kristin LeBlanc
2nd Place - Pridefound - Ash Hooke
3rd Place - El Sazón de mi Tierra - Fer Cueva
Prose
Selected by Melissa Goodrich
1st Place - Bird Whistle - River Lethe
2nd Place - A Crescent Moon - Conner Brooke Lechner
3rd Place - The Ruins of the Old Ones - Kristin LeBlanc
Visual Art
Selected by Ernesto Trujillo, BFA, MFA
1st Place - Hermes - Ev Essif
2nd Place - 佳苗 (Kanae) - Marii Ink
3rd Place - Soul Swimming - Aiden Badruddoja