2025 Pinch Literary Award in Poetry
We are delighted to announce McKenzie Teter as the winner of our 2025 Pinch Literary Award in Poetry. Our judge, Raye Hendrix selected her poem Fleeing (After Helene) as the winner.
2024 Page Prize Winners and Finalists
“We’re excited to announce the results of The 2024 Page Prize in Creative Nonfiction, judged by Justin St. Germain!”
Winners of the 2023 Pinch Literary Awards and Page Prize
Contest Winners for 2023. Their work will be published in our fall issue.
2023 Page Prize in Nonfiction
Caitlin Gunthorp won the 2023 Page Prize in Nonfiction for “Conversations in Colic Season.”
Nicole Baute
Nicole Baute is the winner of the 2018 Pinch Literary Award for her fiction story “You Will Be Extraordinary.” She grew up in Southwestern Ontario and has lived in many places including Toronto, Vancouver, and New Delhi, India. Her short stories and essays have been published by Joyland, River Teeth, carte blanche, Cleaver, and Wigleaf, and she placed third in the Mythic Picnic Fiction Prize. Nicole teaches creative writing online as part of Sarah Selecky Writing School and is pursuing her MFA at the University of British Columbia. e
Lela Tredwell
Contest participants can be selected for publication even if they don’t win the contest. Check out this interview with Lela Tredwell to learn how this contest participant caught the attention of editors and got her piece published! “My Eye Eye” was published in issue 38.2 of The Pinch, which is available for order.
Kate Gaskin
We talked to Kate Gaskin, winner of the Pinch Literary Awards in poetry in 2017 with her poem "What the War Was Not."
Eliza Smith
We're well into the 2018 Pinch Literary Awards! We spoke to Eliza Smith about her experience entering the contest in 2017. Eliza's piece, "All These Apocalypses," won our contest in creative nonfiction last year!
Sara Viren
The Pinch is in full swing with The 2018 Pinch Literary Awards, and so is the talented Sarah Viren as she prepares for the release of her book Mine. Sarah was a winner in The 2014 Pinch Literary Awards with her Nonfiction essay “My Murderer’s Futon” which was featured in The Pinch 35.1.