Linfield’s Creative Writing Program honored the best student writing of the academic year with the inaugural Lacroute Prizes in Poetry and Prose.
Finalists were chosen from nearly 60 submissions by the creative writing faculty, then sent to poet and fiction writer Genevieve DeGuzman, recipient of the 2022 Oregon Literary Fellowship, for final deliberations.
The winner of the Lacroute Prize in Poetry was “Stage Whisper” by Summer Eves ’24, a creative writing major from Molalla. Elana Gatien ’25 from Albany won the Lacroute Prize in Prose for “Tree, Raven, Hillside, Fire.”
All finalists and winners were published in the spring’s issue of “Camas: A Journal of Art & Literature,” and winners each received $500 thanks to support from the Lacroute Initiative for Advancing the Liberal Arts.
