Awards & Contests
2024–Present
– “Crawlspace” nominated for a 2026 Pushcart Prize in Fiction by Burningword Literary Journal
– “Beak” selected as the 2nd place winner in Midway Journal’s 2025 -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest
– “ChatGPT Says it Can’t Analyze Why Things Happened the Way They Did” selected as a Runner-Up Prize Winner in the 2025 RockPaperPoem Annual Poetry Prize Contest
– “Assembly” nominated for a 2026 Best of the Net Award by Pictura Journal
– “Brian Laundrie Told the Police Gabby Petito Was Crazy” selected as a finalist for the Bicoastal Review 2025 Single-Poem Contest
– “If There Are Aliens” selected for juried 2025 Red Wing Arts Poet Artist Collaboration and exhibited at the Red Wing Arts Depot Gallery & Shop
– Finalist for the 2024 Onyx Publications writing contest
– “Tahlequah the Orca Once Carried Her Dead Child for Seventeen Days” nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize by RockPaperPoem
– “Tahlequah the Orca Once Carried Her Dead Child for Seventeen Days” nominated for a 2024 Best of the Net award by RockPaperPoem
2018–2023
– “Hierarchy,” “The Final Girl,” “If You Ever,” “Origin Story,” and “Fable” cento poems read and exhibited at the 2023 The Cento: Creative New Constructions in Visual Art and Poetry exhibition at Three Pines Studio and Gallery in Cross Village, Michigan
– 3rd place in the 2023 University of Iowa School of Social Work National Poetry Contest for Social Workers for “Impostor Syndrome”
– 2022 Honorable Mention in Onyx Magazine‘s Fall Contest for “Pastoral” and other poems
– Seven mixed media pieces exhibited at the 17th Annual SAPAC Art Show [rEVOLUTION: Healing Through the Arts] in April 2022
– Several mixed media pieces included in Australian author Kate Forsyth’s popular Dare to Dream course slides
– Finalist for the 2019 Princemere Poetry Prize
– 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination from Mockingheart Review for “How to Live Without Fear”
2012–2016
– 2016 Pushcart Prize nomination from The Lake for “Mobius”
– 2016 Pushcart Prize nomination from Yellow Chair Review for “Excision”
– 2016 Honorable Mention in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies College Undergraduate Poetry Competition for “How to Surrender to Ghosts”
– Runner-Up for Drunk in a Midnight Choir’s 2016 Pushcart Prize nomination for “Paleontology”
– Finalist for the 2015 Princemere Poetry Prize
– First Place in the 2015 Lyrical Iowa Poetry Association Contest College Division
– Overall Winner for the 2015 Drunk in a Midnight Choir Valentine’s Day Contest
– 2015 Pushcart Prize nomination from Radius Lit for “Daughter the Warrior”
– 2015 Best of the Net nomination from Words Dance Magazine for “The Thief”
– Honorable Mention from Macalester College for the 2015 Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize
– 2013 National Gold Medal for Poetry and National Silver Medal for Writing Portfolio in the 2013 National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
– 2013 Three gold keys and two Honorable Mentions for mixed media, photography, and art portfolios in the 2013 National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
– Finalist for the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Poetry Book
– 2012 Honorable Mention in the Iowa State Fair 73rd Annual Photography Salon – Youth Division for photography
Meggie Royer 