Congratulations to our winners!
2023 QUARTERLY WRITING CONTEST IN nonfiction/memoir:First PlaceAlex Otto, "What to Talk About When My Ex Messages Me After Twenty Years" Second PlaceJulia Bedell, "Return of the Sun"
Third PlaceValerie Van Brocklin, "Blind Redemption" | 2023 QUARTERLY WRITING CONTEST IN poetry:First PlaceHelena Fagan, "Song of Miriam" Second PlaceLindsay Belle Sobolik, "The Worst Martini"
Third PlaceJill Marcotte, "Bookish Drabble" |
Contest Archive
2023 Winners
Non-fiction
1st place: Alex Otto, "What to Talk About When My Ex Messages Me After Twenty Years"
2nd place: Jill Bedell, "Return of the Sun"
3rd place: Valerie Van Brocklin, "Blind Redemption"
2022 Winners
Poetry
1st place: Helena Fagan, "Song of Miriam"
2nd place: Lindsay Belle Sobolik, "The Worst Martini"
3rd place: Jill Marcotte, "Bookish Drabble"
Children's Literature
1st place: Stefanie Tatlias, "The Whale and His Boy"
2nd place: Christian Shane, "Steelhead Survivor"
3rd place: Richard Goldstein, "The Storm Child"
Fiction
1st place: Lesley Hammer, "It's Over"
2nd place: Richard Goldstein, "In the Hallway"
3rd place: Cynthia Bethune, "The Rowan Tree"
Non-fiction
1st place: Richard Goldstein, "Cross Town Buses"
2nd place: Jill Morgan, "Losing Dixie"
3rd place: Georgeie Reynolds, "September in Fairbanks"
2021 Winners
Poetry
1st place: Margaret Adsit, "Pomegranate"
2nd place: Denise Olmstead, "Nigh Sounds"
3rd place: Michael Mitchell, "Forecast"
Fiction
1st place: Jill Marcotte, "Spark and Shadow"
2nd place: Jaclyn Bergamino, "Cassiopeia"
3rd place: Don Neal, "To Kill a Raven"
Non-fiction
1st place: Alex Otto, "Laborious"
2nd place: Kevin Randall, "Life Lessons"
3rd place: Logan Lott, "Jacob"
Children's Literature
1st place: Logan Lott, "Dawn of the Disconnected"
2nd place: Carla Sabotta, "Riding a Space Elevator"
3rd place: Richard Goldstein, "On Thin Ice"
2020 Winners
Fiction
1st place: Kellie Doherty, "Curling Vines & Crimson"
2nd place: Alex Otto, "Unbuilding"
3rd place: Jill Marcote, "Anathema"
Nonfiction/Memoir
1st place: Alexandra Otto, "No Words"
2nd place: Barbara Johnson, "Goodbye Dolly"
3rd place: Don Neal, "Pockets"
Children's Literature
1st place: Kirsten Randall, "Kid Smarts Detective Agency"
2nd place: Christian Shane, excerpt from "Salmon Survivor"
3rd place Kenni Linden, "Hank the Crabby Unicorn"
Honorable Mention: Art Carpenter, "Lily's Sojourn"
Poetry
1st place: Kenni Linden, "Salmon Berries and Saag Aloo"
2nd place: MoHagani
Magnetek, "for colored ladies who considered pull-tabs with their last
two dollars: An ode to Ntozake Shange and Johnnie Taylor...a choreopoem"
3rd place: Tiffany Creed, "Dinner Dinner"
2019 Winners
Poetry
1st place: Kenni Psenak Linden, "Perennial"
2nd place: Steven Martin, "Revelation"
3rd place: Tamara Holman, "My Big Brother's Shadow"