2024 Contest Winners
Theme: The Write Season
All Winners will be Published in our 2024 Anthology
Pen & Paint Contest Part I
A Collaboration Among Artists
POETRY:
Kenneth Lee for Discover the Land Jessica Marie Baumgartner for Forgotten Home Billie Holladay Skelley for Stepping Stone to Stumbling Block John Marcum for Summer’s Lament Donna Mork Reed for Birdhouse |
PROSE:
Billie Holladay Skelley for Forest Bathing Susan Gore Zahra for Panache Mark Vago for Render Unto Caesar Donna Mork Reed for Broken, Yet Beautiful Jessica Marie Baumgartner for A Capella Memories |
President’s Contest
Theme: Unique National Holidays
Prose:
First Place: R. G. Weismiller for Gene-Editing-R-Us Second Place: Christine Anthony for Frozen Third Place: Heather Hartmann for The Only Way Out Flash:
First Place: Laurie Alberswerth for The Great Ducky Debacle Second Place: John Marcum for Roller Coaster Day Third Place: Christine Anthony for Cheers |
Drabble:
First Place: Sherry Cerrano for Path to World Domination Second Place: Marilyn O’Neill for Talk Like a Pirate Day Third Place: Jessica Marie Baumgartner for Dad’s Making Hot Sauce Again |
Poet Laureate Contest
Theme: Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds
First Place: Billie Holladay Skelley for Time for Change
Second Place: Carol Roberson for Urban Serengeti
Third Place: Susan Gore Zahra for One Step
Third Place: Mark Vago for I Swear It’s Not Too Late
Honorable Mention: Sherry Cerrano for Fathoms of Possibilities
Honorable Mention: Kenneth Lee for Mister Polyester
Honorable Mention: Carol Roberson for Second Chance
Honorable Mention: Sarah Richardson for After Giacometti
Honorable Mention: Carol Roberson for The Rose
Second Place: Carol Roberson for Urban Serengeti
Third Place: Susan Gore Zahra for One Step
Third Place: Mark Vago for I Swear It’s Not Too Late
Honorable Mention: Sherry Cerrano for Fathoms of Possibilities
Honorable Mention: Kenneth Lee for Mister Polyester
Honorable Mention: Carol Roberson for Second Chance
Honorable Mention: Sarah Richardson for After Giacometti
Honorable Mention: Carol Roberson for The Rose
March Contest
Theme: Warm Seasons
First Place: Diane How for Where the Other Begins
Second Place: Tony Dorsey for The May Fly's Journey
Third Place: Thomas Klein for Untrained Intelligence
Honorable Mention: M. L. Stiehl for Waterwheel Memories
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Czuchna for A Trip to the Beach
Honorable Mention: Cheri Remington for All You Need is Wuf
Second Place: Tony Dorsey for The May Fly's Journey
Third Place: Thomas Klein for Untrained Intelligence
Honorable Mention: M. L. Stiehl for Waterwheel Memories
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Czuchna for A Trip to the Beach
Honorable Mention: Cheri Remington for All You Need is Wuf
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May Contest
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July Contest
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