Past winners
2023 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry
The 2023 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award was judged by T. Liem.
First place: B.A. LeFrançois for “[untitled]
Runner-up: Sneha Subramanian Kanta for “Letter to the Milkmaid”
Read more about the winning 2023 poems.
Honourable mentions
Glossophobia by Sam Bollinger
dyke genealogy / alt: a letter to my grandfather in this first year of silence by [sarah] Cavar
2022 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry
The 2022 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award was judged by Liz Howard.
First place: Serena Lukas Bhander for “as medicine”
Runner-up: Elisavet Makridis for “WE GO NIGHTSWIMMING”
Read more about the winning 2022 poems.
Honourable mentions
2019 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry
The 2019 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award was judged by Phoebe Wang.
First place: Rebekah Rempel for “After Learning My Friend Has Cancer”
Runner-up: Halle Gulbrandsen for “False Memories”
Read more about the 2019 winning poems.
Honourable mentions:
Dessa Bayrock for “Dreams Are Just Magic Tricks We Perform While We’re Asleep”
Isabel Yang for “Amniotic Fluid or the Fear of Intimacy” and “In the Directions of the River”
Karen Massey for “My Mother is Outliving All of Her Memories”