"Marigolds" is a 1969 short story by Eugenia Collier. The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County, she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest, where it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks prize for fiction; it was her first published story.