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We are Manuscripts, Butler University’s annual undergrad literary magazine. We publish students’ creative work— including poetry, short stories, photographs, and paintings. We seek to showcase all Indiana undergraduate students’ creative work. 

Contest Winners

These are our contest winners from Volume 89 (Spring '24). 

Prose

1st: Tricks and Treats at Sunset Hill - Alec Z. Jarvis
2nd: Lessons in Drowning - Miranda Emerick
3rd: The Second-to-Last Hurrah - Emma Biddle
Finalists: Eva in Streeterville; or, The Man Without a Shadow - Peter Mikulski & 
​Judgment Day - Elliott Robinson

Poetry

1st: "Killdeer" - Aidan Harper Smith
2nd: "Knead" - Anna Buescher
3rd: "American Politics" - Kyrie Pierson
Finalists: "Post-Mortem Thoughts of a Butterfly" - Ollie Sikes &
​"beautiful & true " - Elliott Robinson

Art

1st: "Not So Doctor Pepper" - Gab Peabody
2nd: "new Age, baby!" - Ella Adams
​3rd: "angel" - Ella Adams
Finalists: "Fruit Adventure" - Riley Dugan &
​ "nurture vs. nature" - Ella Adams