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Winners of the 2024 Veterans' Writing Contest

Fri, 01/24/2025 - 3:07pm

TIR Staff

The Iowa Review is thrilled to announce the winners and runners-up of our seventh Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, judged by Dewaine Farria. The work of all winners and runners-up will be published in the Spring 2025 edition of TIR. Included below are the winners, Farria's comments on their winning work, and a biographical note about each writer. Our next veterans' writing contest will accept submissions in May 2026.

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