The Adroit Journal

The Adroit Journal is an American literary magazine founded in November 2010.^[1] Published five times per year by founding editor Peter LaBerge, The Adroit Journal is currently based in Philadelphia. The journal was produced with the support of the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House from 2013 to 2017 and was based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City from 2017-2019 and 2020-2023 respectively.^[2]

Contributors and staff

Authors featured in The Adroit Journal include Fatimah Asghar, NoViolet Bulawayo, K-Ming Chang, Chen Chen, Franny Choi, Alex Dimitrov, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes, Sarah Kay, Dorianne Laux, Lydia Millet, D. A. Powell, Diane Seuss, Danez Smith, Arthur Sze, Ned Vizzini, and Ocean Vuong.

The journal has published numerous United States Poet Laureate selectees, MacArthur Fellow honorees, Pulitzer Prize winners, and National Book Award winners, and contributors are regularly recognized by the Best American Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner Fellowships in Poetry and Fiction, the Whiting Foundation’s Whiting Awards, and many more organizations that offer industry-leading funding and support.

Previous or current staff members of The Adroit Journal include Anthony Veasna So, Kinsale Drake, Leila Chatti, Aria Aber, Jim Whiteside, Rhodes Scholars Russell Bogue^[3] and Aaron Robertson,^[4] and Michele Selene Ang of 13 Reasons Why.

Anthology and press presence

Pieces from the journal have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Poetry,^[5] Best New Poets,^[6] The Best American Nonrequired Reading,^[7] Verse Daily,^[8] Poetry Daily,^[9] and Best of the Net,^[10] and have been awarded the Pushcart Prize.^[11]

Work first published in The Adroit Journal has also been discussed and featured in or by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, American Life in Poetry, the Slowdown, Teen Vogue, PBS NewsHour, NPR, and College Board.

A video recording of Jim Parsons reading Max McDonough's poem "Egg Harbor", originally published in The Adroit Journal, was featured by The New York Times in February 2018.^[12]

The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program

The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program is a free, online program that pairs experienced writers with high school and secondary students. Mentees have been recognized through the National YoungArts Foundation & United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts designation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards. Participants have also been featured in Teen Vogue^[13] and NPR, among other publications.

The Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program

Gregory Djanikian was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and came to the United States when he was eight years old. He has published seven poetry collections, the latest of which is Sojourners of the In-Between (CMU Press, 2020).^[14] The Djanikian Scholars Program recognizes six emerging poets each year, beginning with 2018.

Year	Gregory Djanikian Scholars[15]
2024	Aliyah Cotton, Majda Gama, Melissa McKinstry, Quinton Okoro, Edythe Rodriguez, & Syd Westley
2023	Erik Jonah, Willie Lee Kinard III, Emily Lawson, Sarah Fathima Mohammed, Kelan Nee, & Gabriel Ramirez
2022	Sarah Ghazal Ali, Leyla Çolpan, Jordan Escobar, Tennessee Hill, Anni Liu, & Avia Tadmor
2021	Jari Bradley, Donte Collins, Jane Huffman, L. A. Johnson, Natasha Rao, & Brandon Thurman
2020	Bryan Byrdlong, Steven Duong, Sara Elkamel, Matthew Gellman, Ae Hee Lee, & Gabriella R. Tallmadge
2019	Gabrielle Bates, Bernard Ferguson, Aidan Forster, Dan Kraines, Alycia Pirmohamed, & Leslie Sainz
2018	K-Ming Chang, Robin Estrin, Paige Lewis, Brandon Melendez, Michael M. Weinstein, & Keith S. Wilson

The Anthony Veasna So Scholars Program

Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was an American writer of short stories that often drew from his upbringing as a child of Cambodian immigrants. His debut short story collection, Afterparties, was published posthumously by HarperCollins in 2021 and was named a New York Times Bestseller and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book.^[16] The Veasna So Scholars Program recognizes six emerging fiction writers each year, beginning with 2023.

Year	Anthony Veasna So Scholars[17]
2024	C. Adán Cabrera, Allison Field Bell, Cristina Fries, Devon Halliday, Lu Han, & Basmah Sakrani
2023	Vincent Chavez, Ani Cooney, Kelly X. Hui, Gracie Newman, Tierney Oberhammer, & Marguerite Sheffer

The Adroit Prizes for Poetry and Prose

The Adroit Prizes are awarded annually to two students of secondary or undergraduate status "whose written work inspires the masses to believe beyond feeling the work."^[18]

Year	Genre	Guest Judge	Recipient	Institution	Runner(s)-Up	Institution
2023	Poetry	Natalie Diaz	Kinsale Drake	Yale University	N/A	N/A
2023	Prose	Ocean Vuong	Kelly X. Hui	University of Chicago	N/A	N/A
2022	Poetry	Arthur Sze	Ethan Luk	Princeton University	Natalie Jarrett	Northwestern University
2022	Prose	Kali Fajardo-Anstine	Nandita Naik	Stanford University	Sofia Miller	Denison University
2021	Poetry	Carl Phillips	Stephanie Chang	Kenyon College	Delilah Silberman	Bennington College
2021	Prose	Samantha Hunt	Enshia Li	Stanford University	Amal Haddad	Swarthmore College
2020	Poetry	Jericho Brown	Tariq Thompson	Kenyon College	Stephanie Chang	Kenyon College
2020	Prose	Kristen Arnett	Yasmeen Khan	Grand Oaks High School	Coral Bello-Martinez	Franklin & Marshall College
2019	Poetry	Franny Choi	Fiona Stanton	Interlochen Arts Academy	Daniel Blokh	Alabama School of Fine Arts
2019	Prose	Jamel Brinkley	Angelo Hernandez-Sias	Columbia University	Jason Lalljee	University of Chicago
2018	Poetry	Alex Dimitrov	Theis Anderson	University of Cambridge	Lauren Sanderson	Colgate University
2018	Prose	Rachel Heng	Polina Solovyeva	New York University	Sarah Feng	Pinewood School
2017	Poetry	Safiya Sinclair	Safwan Khatib	Columbia University	Christina Im	Sunset High School
2017	Prose	Allegra Hyde	Charity Young	Princeton University	Aidan Forster	SC Gov. School for Arts & Humanities
2016	Poetry	Corey Van Landingham	Rachel Cruea	Ohio Northern University	Theophilus Kwek	Oxford University
2016	Prose	Kevin Moffett	Brynne Rebele-Henry	Homeschool	Walker Caplan	Yale University
2015	Poetry	Tarfia Faizullah	Ian Burnette	Kenyon College	Brynne Rebele-Henry	Homeschool
2015	Prose	Alexander Maksik	Lydia Weintraub	Princeton University	John Stegner	University of Virginia
2014	Poetry	Richie Hofmann	Nathan Durham	Kenyon College	Ian Burnette	Kenyon College
2014	Prose	Wendy Rawlings	Isabel DeBre	Brown University	Madeleine Cravens	Oberlin College
2013	Poetry	Garth Greenwell	Shelley Whitaker	Hollins University	Jacob Oet	Swarthmore College
2013	Prose	Marlin Barton	Elizabeth Martin	Princeton University	Lily Fishman	Barnard College
2012	Poetry	Chloe Honum	Stephanie Guo	Canyon Crest Academy	Nicholas Pierce	Texas Tech University
2012	Prose	N/A	Phoebe Nir	Brown University	Flora Collins	Vassar College

References

1. "Adroit Journal - Young Poets Network". Retrieved December 17, 2017.
2. "The Adroit Journal". LinkedIn. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
3. "UVA's Russell Bogue Among 2016 Class of Rhodes Scholars". UVA Today. November 23, 2015. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
4. "Princeton senior Robertson awarded Rhodes Scholarship". Princeton University. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
5. "Nkosi Nkululeko Selected for Best American Poetry". Retrieved January 22, 2018.
6. "Best New Poets". Retrieved December 17, 2017.
7. Handler, Daniel (October 7, 2014). "The Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2014". ISBN 9780544129986. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
8. "Verse Daily: Web Weekly Archives". Retrieved December 17, 2017.
9. "Poetry Daily" (PDF). Poetry Daily. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
10. "2016 Best of the Net Anthology". Retrieved December 17, 2017.
11. "Literary MagNet: Alex Dimitrov". Poets & Writers. April 12, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
12. Chee, Alexander (February 26, 2018). "'The Boys in the Band' Cast Reads Queer Poetry". The New York Times. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
13. Dwyer, Kate. "These 9 Young Poets Are Actually Making the Genre Cool Again". Teen Vogue. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
14. "Gregory Djanikian". Gregory Djanikian. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
15. "Kristin Chang '20 Named a 2018 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry". Sarah Lawrence College. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
16. Anthony Veasna So (June 7, 2022). "Afterparties". www.harpercollins.com. ISBN 9780063049895. Archived from the original on May 27, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
17. "Kristin Chang '20 Named a 2018 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry". Sarah Lawrence College. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
18. "Patience and Commitment: ONU junior Rachel Cruea is the recipient of the 2016 Adroit Prize for Poetry". Ohio Northern University. Retrieved December 17, 2017.

External links

Official website