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 in creative writing students and undergraduate students in the creative writing concentration.
The application requires submission of one poem of any length. Your poetry submission should consist of the poem title and text only.
Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award: $300
Submit via Scholarship Universe
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].