Nina C. Peláez

The Schooner Annual Award Winners First Place Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award $1500 iheoma uzomba, three poems, Fall 2024 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Awards $250 Gabriel Houck, "Signal/Noise," Fall 2024 Emily Khilfeh, "Poem with Genocide in the Title," Summer 2024 Divya Mehrish, "The Opposite of Tragedy," Fall 2024 Nina C. Peláez, "Still Life," Fall 2024 Nadeem Zaman, "Special Registration," Winter

Our 2024 literary award winners list, continued: winners of Glenna Luschei Awards include @khilfish.bsky.social, @ninacpelaez.bsky.social, and @nadeemzaman.bsky.social.

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Light beige background. Sliver of a dark night image at the top, a ghostly night forest scene: a girl in a long white dress and a bird head mask sits on a bough. Beige text reads: Read a Poem Summer 2025. Main text reads: "from ‘Doubt' At the cattle farm, I fell in love with a boy / who thought he was a god. I too, believed / this sometimes. – Nina C. Peláez, Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up." Small circle-cut black and white photograph of a woman with short hair wearing a dress.

I started working on this piece over 15 years ago, while staying at a friend's family farm one summer, and it has moved through many, many iterations. It was first fragments, then a series of short poems, and at one point, a short story that I abandoned when a teacher's response was "the writing is beautiful, but stories are about people in trouble." Yet, something kept pulling me back to these memories time and again. It took me this long to come to see what I was really writing about, to see the shadows that had been sitting in the periphery of that landscape all along.

New poem online! “Doubt” by Nina C. Peláez (@ninacpelaez.bsky.social) is forthcoming in our summer issue, Shō No. 7, and was selected by the editors as the runner-up for the Sita Martin Prize.

Read the poem (with audio by the poet) here:
shopoetryjournal.com/doubt-nina-c...

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Black and white photograph of a woman with short hair wearing a dress. Text reads: Sita Martin Prize Runner-up • Nina C. Peláez “Doubt”

Congratulations to Nina C. Peláez, runner-up of the Sita Martin Prize for her poem “Doubt,” forthcoming in Shō No. 7 (Summer 2025): tinyurl.com/shono7

Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social is a poet, essayist and educator based in Maui, HI where she works as Associate Director for The Merwin

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Derelict | Narrative Magazine Derelict by Nina Peláez — It is after the long night ends with its glit...

“The sun starts its strain, rupturing through
clouds, melting dusts of snow. My shadow
appears and disappears in front of me.” —excerpt from “Derelict” by Nina Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social

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It means so so much to know that others are reading and sharing my work. I feel extraordinarily grateful. Thank you so much @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and for all of you taking the time to read these words.

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Thank you so much for sharing this! It means so much ❤️

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