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Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award

Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award

Lyon Award Submission Period: October 20 - November 6, 2025 -- submit via 5 p.m.

Mabelle A. Lyon published more than 1,000 poems in commercial and literary magazines and anthologies. She founded the first public library in Goodyear, Arizona and co-founded the Arizona Poetry Society, serving as the first president. After she died, friends and family of Lyon made a memorial gift to establish the Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award at ASU in honor of her love of poetry. The Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award is open to ASU MFA Creative Writing students and undergraduate students in the Creative Writing Concentration.

Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award: $300

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Previous Recipients

  • 2024-2025: Val West
    2023-2024: Matt Flores
  • 2022-2023: Cari Muñoz
  • 2021-2022: Mónica García
  • 2020-2021: Julian Delacruz
  • 2019-2020: Anna Flores
  • 2018-2019: Maritza Estrada
  • 2017-2018: [No award given]
  • 2016-2017: Jack Geist
  • 2015-2016: Kyle Bassett
  • 2014-2015: Reese Conner
  • 2013-2014: Dorothy Chan

For more information, contact Creative Writing Program Manager, Justin Petropoulos at [email protected].