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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
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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
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
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2nd: "Knead" - Anna Buescher
3rd: "American Politics" - Kyrie Pierson
Finalists: "Post-Mortem Thoughts of a Butterfly" - Ollie Sikes &
"beautiful & true " - Elliott Robinson
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
3rd: "angel" - Ella Adams
Finalists: "Fruit Adventure" - Riley Dugan &
"nurture vs. nature" - Ella Adams