Spectrum Dried Ink Contest Results

Penn’s Spectrum literary and arts magazine has revealed the results of this year’s Dried Ink contest. Students submitted pieces across four categories: poetry, prose, scripts, and visual art, each with three winners.

Every winner received a journal, a pen, and a pack of candy. All submissions will appear in either the fall or spring issue of Spectrum, which will be available for purchase in the bookstore.

Here is the full list of this year’s honorees.

Poetry Winners

• Celine Hassna, “What Lies Beneath”
• Grace Kazmierzak, “Love, The Moon”
• Olivia Kiner, “Olivia”

Prose Winners

• Aliyah Preciado, “The Black Envelope”
• Ember Lewis, “Too Much to Too Little”
• Arashjit Singh, “From Cold to Warm”

Script Winners

• Danielle O’Grady, “Night of Trails”
• Caitlyn Gaynor, “The Crime of Professor Heinz”
• Rebecca Wagman, “A Secret Wedding”

Art Winners

• Riley Miles, portrait series
• Laney Koontz, “Clown Drawing”
• Destiny Malone, untitled black and white sketch