The Nonfiction Writing Program community congratulates NWP student Grace Morse whose thesis excerpt "Jackknife" was selected for this fall's 2024 Magdalena Essay Prize. The prizes comes with a $500 award.

On behalf of the NWP faculty, we would like to share that this year’s Magdalena competition was especially stiff—we had more submissions to the prize than in the past three years. The judges were impressed and wowed by your writing, and this prize is very well deserved!