The 2025 Epistolary Challenge Winners
We’re thrilled to congratulate Shradha Singh, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Epistolary Challenge! Her poem “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee,” was selected by the Frontier Editorial team as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were moved by the tenderness, vulnerability, and creativity in this challenge’s submissions. Thank you so much for sharing your poetic letters with us. As always, we are so grateful for the continued support of our submitters, readers, and friends.
Singh has been awarded the first-place prize of $500. Christian Collier was selected as the second-place winner and Sullivan Summer as the third place winner. Find the full list of our winners and finalists below. We look forward to publishing their work throughout the month of December.
Thank you to all who submitted, it was a pleasure to consider your work.
WINNER
Shradha Singh
“To My Mother’s Former Fiancee”
Shradha Singh is a third generation registered nurse, second generation Indian American, and first generation writer. This is her first time being published
SECOND PLACE
Christian Collier
“Dear Sarah”
Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. He is the author of Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), and the chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade, the 2021 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, December, and elsewhere.
THIRD PLACE
Sullivan Summer
“NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST”
Sullivan Summer is a poet, essayist, critic, and adoptee advocate. She is a past participant of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House Workshop, and a graduate of the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program. Her work has been published in various outlets, and her first chapbook, Performance Anxiety, was published in 2025 by Black Sunflowers Poetry Press. She lives in New York City.
The Finalists
Jacob Herrera Spears
Daniel Ooi
Cathie Sandstrom
Gillian Goodman
Alexander Vidiani
Will Hemmer
Adrie Rose
