Writing Contest Winners

Congratulations to our Gunard B. Carlson Memorial Foundation Creative Writing Contest 2026 winners!  The submissions were wonderful and very reflective of this year’s theme of Identity.

All winning submissions will be published in our next issue of Pilgrimages due out in Spring 2027.

First Place Winner

• Anonymous – “Who I Am”

Second Place Winners

• Sandra Mora Jurado – “Still Becoming”
• Aniket Yadav – “The Versions of Me” and “Who I Am and Who I Want To Be”

Third Place Winners

• Kimberly Alvarez – “Intersection of Identity”
• Avery Clum – “Bells and Whistles”
• Ananya Sriram – “The Sweetness of Unripe Mangoes”