The Class of 1885 Prize is awarded annually to the student submitting the best work of the imagination in prose.
Class of 1885 Prize Winners
- 2023: Andriana Taratsas
- 2022: Skye Gulledge
- 2021: Natalie Marsh
- 2020: Claire Seymour
- 2019: Claire Seymour
- 2018: Declan Falls
- 2017: Julie Zhou
- 2016: Choto Chotocruz
- 2015: Elizabeth Rose Durling
- 2014: Emily Grace Bernard and Avery Connor Rux
- 2013: Not awarded
- 2012: Not awarded
- 2011: Rachael Lauren Wood
- 2010: Audrey Yang Carlsen
- 2009: Evan Wesley Haine-Roberts and Leah Camille Karels
- 2008: Vincent McCarthy Poturica
- 2007: Clare Kirkpatrick Jones and Vincent McCarthy Poturica
- 2006: Helen Wiley Terndrup
- 2005: Kevin Louis Kalinowski
- 2004: Ellen M. Snead
- 2003: Andrew Warren Haxby
- 2002: Nicholas David Vreeland
- 2001: Sara Joy Steele
- 2000: Jessica Lynne Wangsness
- 1999: Jessica Lynne Wangsness
- 1998: Dominic Paul Saucedo
- 1997: David Owen Horton
- 1996: Esmé Jo Schwall
- 1994: Lynda Ellen Carstarphen and Michael David Tortorello
- 1993: Lynda Ellen Carstarphen and Michael David Tortorello
- 1992: Robert Kruger Brown
- 1991: Jean Lee
- 1990: Collin Gifford Brooke
- 1989: Sarah Christie Bing and Robert Kruger Brown
- 1988: Anna M. Prineas
- 1987: Scott A. Garson
- 1986: Joseph D. Frank
- 1985: Peter Daniel Gelman
- 1984: Torsten Clifford Kjellstrand
- 1983-Laura Elizabeth Inman
- 1982: Katherine Logan MacKinnon and Iva Janean Miller
- 1979: Jane Hubbard Hamilton
- 1968: Lawrence D. Grouse
- 1967: Lawrence D. Grouse
- 1966: Ronald Mario Rowe
- 1965: Ronald Mario Rowe
- 1964: Peter Charles Schjedahl
- 1963: Eric Everett Larsen
- 1962: Eric Everett Larsen
- 1942: Harriet Starin
- 1941: Richard Umhoefer
- 1940: William Evans