Congratulations to all of our winners!
Thank you for being a part of this wonderful writing community. We hope to see your submitted work again next year!
2024
David Eulin White Award
🗸 First Place Winner: Don Money for “Those Stars Back Home”
Roger Williams Peace Award
🗸 First Place Winner: Dr. Heidi Schmidt for “Juxtapose with Peace”
Short Story
🗸 First Place Winner: Patrick Garaca for “The Last Penman”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Vic Kerry for “MPH”
Flash Fiction
🗸 First Place Winner: Keysha Drexel for “Laws of Physics and the Human Heart”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Randolph Crew for “Kismet”
Memoir
🗸 First Place Winner: Emma Fox for “Meeting Mrs. Metcalf”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Mara Hamner for “We’re on a Wait”
Horror
🗸 First Place Winner: David Hammond for “Jamie’s Id”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Doug Gray for “That Night on Lake Michigan”
First Chapter of Novel
🗸 First Place Winner: David Hammond for Point Clear
🗸 Second Place Winner: Sheila Dene’ Lawrence for The Case of the Aging Athlete
One-Act Play
🗸 First Place Winner: Mercedes George for Soap POPera
Formal Poetry
🗸 First Place Winner: Keysha Drexel for “Once Your Age”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Jerri Hardesty for “Bright Ribbons”
Free Verse Poetry
🗸 First Place Winner: Karen McAferty Morris for “Lost Cat”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Emma Fox for “Calico”
2023
Short Story
🗸 First Place Winner: Gary Rodgers for “Raised on Diamonds”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Emma Fox for “The Old Savannah School”
Flash Fiction
🗸 First Place Winner: Mara Hamner for “Heaven on a Bun”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Doug Gray for “Cannon Beach”
First Chapter of Novel
🗸 First Place Winner: Doug Gray for Saint Frank
🗸 Second Place Winner: Randolph Crew for The Center Field Corpse
Memoir
🗸 First Place Winner: Heather N. Rhodes for “Something’s Wrong”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Suzannah Solomon Wilson for “Rosalie”
Formal Poetry
🗸 First Place Winner: Christopher Jay Jones for “I Want a Doctor Who’s Good at Pretending”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Audrey McDonald Atkins for “For Johnny”
Free Verse Poetry
🗸 First Place Winner: Catherine Hall Kiser for “A Poet Approaches Perihelion in Darkness”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Heidi Schmidt for “Ascend, Rise, and Conquer”
Lyric Essay
🗸 First Place Winner: Gurupreet K. Khalsa for “Wandering Brume to Sparks”
🗸 Second Place Winner: Christopher Jay Jones for “Mid-Century Modern Dance”
One-Act Plays
There was a TIE!
🗸 Theron Montgomery for “Was There”
🗸 Christopher Jay Jones for “The Splendor and the Squalor”
Roger Williams Peace Award for Writing
🗸 First Place Winner: Mike Turner for “Sense of Peace”