Friends of Writers Winter 2025 Community Digest: Awards, Print Magazine Publications, and Other Achievements

Many in the Friends of Writers network found success in the second half of 2025 with awards, publications, and more. Congratulations to those listed below. While celebrating these wonderful projects, be sure to check out our special digest dedicated to book publications.

Muriel Nelson (Poetry ’96)

  • Idaho Prize for Poetry from Lost Horse Press for manuscript Here’s Company. Publication is planned for early March, 2026.

Headshot of writer Elisabeth Lewis Corley

Elisabeth Lewis Corley (Poetry ’10)

  • Poem “Arc Light” was awarded third prize in James Applewhite Poetry Prize and published in the North Carolina Literary Review.

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Friends of Writers Winter 2025 Community Digest: New BooksFour Poems by Mary Lou Buschi (Poetry ’04)