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Traveler Selections for 2024-2025

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The Traveler reading staff and judges have made their selections for Fall 2024 to Spring 2025! Thank you to everyone who submitted their fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, and drama. Please consider submitting again in Fall 2025.

Look for physical copies of the Traveler Arts & Literary Journal later this spring!

Fiction

  • 1st Place: The Assassin, by Bryannah Stevens
  • 2nd Place: Inarticulation, by Ashley Lowell
  • 3rd Place: Richard Price, by Mary Gross
  • Honorable Mention: A Snark Page for Dead Pets, by Mary Gross

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: Five Things You Can See, One Thing I Can’t Say, by Ashley Lowell
  • 2nd Place: My Horror Story with a Happy Ending, by Haley Ybarra
  • 3rd Place: A Mirror of a Broken Seashell, by Angel Marie Arguello

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Now We Know, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • 2nd Place: One Time I Rode My Bike at Night, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • 3rd Place: My Wife and I Discuss Death While Eating Popcorn on a Tuesday Night and This is Just What We Do Now, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • Honorable Mention: I Can’t Do This Anymore, by Adrian Castillo

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: Silent War, by Angel Marie Arguello

Traveler & Artists of Promise Deadlines Extended!

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The powers that be–somewhere, out there–have extended the deadlines to both student writing competitions! The new deadline for both contests is Friday, December 8th.

Give us your poetry, your fiction, your creative nonfiction, and your screen/stage-plays!

  • The Traveler Arts & Literary Journal is open to all active GCC students. Submit your work here!
  • The Artists of Promise competition is open to all active students in any of the Maricopa Community Colleges. Submit your work here!

Traveler Literary Winners for 2022-2023

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Thank you to everyone who submitted creative work to the Traveler for this academic year. We are honored and grateful for your participation in our literary contest. The contest is closed for now, but it will reopen again in Fall 2023.

Without further ado, here are the literary selections for this year’s Traveler:

Fiction

  • 1st Place: The Dreamer, by Ben Bruce
  • 2nd Place: 8 Minutes and 20 Seconds, by Jack Nichols
  • 3rd Place: Bioluminescent Walks After Dark, by Joselyn Lopez
  • Honorable Mention: Front Doors, by Jessie Kurak
  • Honorable Mention: Beer Run, by Patrick McCarthy

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: The Tallest Grass, by Lilli Titus
  • 2nd Place: Lucky Fish, by Jessie Kurak
  • 3rd Place: Problems as a Straight Woman, by Lilli Titus
  • Honorable Mention: First Drink, by Patrick McCarthy

Poetry

  • 1st Place: A Love Song to Tomatoes, by Carol Powell
  • 2nd Place: Room for Dessert, by Jessie Kurak
  • 3rd Place: Stone Fires, by Brianna Lucio
  • Honorable Mention: Carousel, by Jessie Kurak
  • Honorable Mention: The Storm, by Hailey Wyman

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: The Gas Station, by Catherine Cubillas
  • 2nd Place: Bunny Island, by Constantine Dino Cotton