Innovate is honored to announce ACC’s 2025-26 winners of the League for Innovation Student Literary Award.

Short Stories

1st Place: As the Rooster Crows by Elisa Diaz-Rocha
2nd Place: A Mockingbird At Sunrise by Ross Marburger
3rd Place: Memories Lost to Oblivion by August Kayser

Honorable Mentions Short Stories

Selena Isn’t Really From Here by Steven Alcorn
To Live Again, I’ll Love by Tatiana Perez

The Climb by Michael Gonzales

Poetry

1st Place: I learned early that I had a future by Jessica Atnip
2nd Place: Americano by Emmalynne Arita
3rd Place: Still Dissatisfied by Ximen Williams

Honorable Mentions Poems

One Fading Light They Somehow Share by Ethan Reyes-Monroy
Trillium in the Daisy Bouquet by Huma Khan
With Death, There’s Life by Natalia Guerra