THE JULIET GIBSON MEMORIAL AWARD

OUTSTANDING STUDENT WRITER

Hannah Mackey

FINALIST IN PROSE

Amy Jarvis

FINALIST IN POETRY

Jack Snyder

RiverCraft has a long history of excellence and evolution. It was originally created in 1964 by Mrs. Marjorie McCune, Mr. Jared Curtis, and Dr. Charles Rahter under the title Focus. In 1993, the Writer’s Institute was founded, and the magazine’s name was changed to The Susquehanna Review. But by 2003, The Susquehanna Review had become the University’s national undergraduate journal, and RiverCraft finally emerged to celebrate the literary excellence of Susquehanna students. Each year since 1989, a professional writer or editor has been invited to select that issue’s outstanding student writer, as well as finalists in prose and poetry. The winner receives the Juliet Gibson Memorial Award, established in remembrance of the student editor who died in a campus accident in 1987.

This year, we are honored to have been judged by Jacob White. Jacob White’s story collection Being Dead in South Carolina was published by Leapfrog Press in 2013. His fiction and essays have appeared in many places, such as The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The Literary Review, Shenandoah, Cimarron Review, Salt Hill, New Orleans Review, Modern Language Studies, Juked, Hobart Online, and The Sewanee Review, from whom he received the Andrew Lytle Prize. He has received honorable mentions in both Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize anthologies, as well as the Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Fiction from the University of Houston and the Father William Ralston Fellowship from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He co-edited Green Mountains Review from 2011-2013.