SUMMER 2026
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SUMMER 2026 ⁎
CELESTIAL BODIES
Honoring the Moon, the Stars, and the Sky
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INDIGENOUS NON-FICTION PRIZE
Prize Judge: Cynthia Sylvester
“For all my years of sky gazing, the expansion of the open heaven and piercing stars never ceased to awaken emotions of something bigger than myself.”
PRIZE WINNER: Every Rez Was Once Home
to Dinosaurs by Shaniya Smith
“I can see myself under a crown dotted with forty-six stars, alchemizing a life of my own creation.”
FINALIST: The Star by Blanca Estela Morales
“I am the cosmos and I am capable of figuring out anything that needs figuring out. I am made from everything I see when I look skyward.”
HONORABLE MENTION: Becoming by Rebecca Kinkade-Black
“Let the South serve as the origin of life in the flesh and let the Milky Way lead your spirit back to whence it all began.”
FINALIST: Inipi by Cheryl Mendoza
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