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.
“With O.J. there was an abyss of recklessness I was willing to dive into, a waxing appetite for danger I was unsure I could swallow.”
“…I can see it’s a black, shrunken stick about ten feet high, stripped of the bark I once ran my fingers over.”
Honors undergraduate writers and graduate students pursuing writing careers
“…my parents’ divorce agreement, a tarot deck, an armadillo that sang a funny song when you squeezed its belly…”
“He’s not unreasonable, he tells me. But he’s genuinely alarmed by the extent of the first-round edits.”
“The sky peels back like a tinfoil lid and something putrid creeps in...”
“Everything was ours, our reality untamed by time and misogyny, and the price we’d pay for living remained alien to us.”
“If ever a saint could be described as not giving any fucks, it would be her.”
“He loved the sense that sex could be an intervention between two people.”
“I’ve seen too much writing lately that makes metaphors of hunger.”
This year’s Breakout! Writers Prize Winners: Chelsea Dingman and Tzu Hsien (Charlene) Huang