Past Winning Entries
Please enjoy the winning entries from our past contests. They are presented here in the order we added them to our website. To view winning entries by contest and year, please see our Contest Archives.
My Pinsans and Me: Amara’s Talent Show
By Monica Canlas Tuy & Eric Tuy
Honorable Mention, North Street Book Prize 2022
Losing Time: AIDS Lessons in Love and Loss
By Lucien Agosta
Honorable Mention, North Street Book Prize 2022
Laundry Day
By Jeffrey Weinstock
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
A Garden in the Desert
By Debbie Weingarten
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
The Lizard Girl and the Alligator King
By P.L. Watts
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
A Final Deployment
By Cynthia Stock
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Searching for the Clear
By Sandra Sidi and Lauren Serrano
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Marshmallows
By Byron Spooner
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Fitting In
By Ronald McGuire
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
In Lieu of Flowers
By Michael Foote
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
We Go Way Back
By Ryan Collett
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom
By Noah Berlatsky
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
One Morning When Stalin Was on Network Television
By Daniel Waters
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Emily Dickinson Sits Down to Write the Morning After Watching “The Godfather” on Late Night Cable
By Peter Schmitt
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Ni Hao Isn’t the Way to My Vagina
By Maria Picone
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
I Don’t Think Virgins Deserve Spotify Premium
By Enchi
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Why So Many Penises (or Should I Say Pee-ni?)
By Megan Falley
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Snickering on the Fringe of Debauchery
By John Paul Davies
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Minnie and Dick’s Gender Reveal—Take Two
By Leila Murton Poole
First Prize, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Six Things Taygete Had To Learn Without Being Taught
By Laura Theis
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021
Ghazal for the Bumps on My Spine
By Remi Recchia
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021
Morning in the YMCA Pool
By Peaco Todd
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021
The Poem of the World
By Scudder Parker
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021
portrait of mother as nüwa
By Fiona Lu
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021
Room in the Bag of Stars
By Athena Kildegaard
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021