Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine annually honors its contributors that best represented the year's submissions. The award goes to someone in each category we publish. Anyone who submits work to Door is a Jar Literary Magazine has a chance at winning this award.

The 2025 DIAJ Award winners:

The Bee by Emily Molinari (Poetry)

Tuulikki Bakes a Cake by September Woods Garland (Fiction)

Sweating Like a Mother by Alina Zollfrank (Nonfiction)

Buddy's Picasso by Komal Sharma (Art)

TOWER TOUR by Brian C. Billings (Drama)

A Review of Larks by Han VanderHart by Eleanor Ball (Book Review)

You can read the pieces by clicking here