Joseph Murtagh, Writing, won the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from the Missouri Review, in the category of nonfiction, for an essay he wrote entitled "A Hive of Mysterious Danger." The essay recounts his experience as an instructor at Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison about an hour's drive north of Ithaca. The reward for the prize is publication in the spring issue of the Missouri Review, $5000, and a public reading in Columbia, Missouri in March.
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