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.
Madame Sosostris
By Noble Collins
Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
Charles Plays the Ukulele
By Noble Collins
Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
The Winter of Our Discontent
By Brian Bentley
Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
Night in the North
By Helen Bar-Lev
Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
Risking the Road
By Cynthia Rausch Allar
Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
Groceries on the Path Unpaved
By Crystal-Angelee Burrell
Fourth Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2010
Coming Home in a Haibun
By Ellaraine Lockie
Fourth Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2009
Tao of Taos
By Ellaraine Lockie
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2010
The Queen of the Sea
By Liz Davies
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2010
South Sea Odyssey
By Philip Brown
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2010
Miss Worthington
By Rosmarie Epaminondas-Bohm
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2009
10 P.M. by the Singapore River
By Samuel Tan
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2009
The Bewick’s Wren
By Judith Goldhaber
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2009
I Am a Fado Song
By Louis Giron
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2008
Jerusalem of Heaven, Jerusalem of Earth
By Reena Ribalow
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2008
Uncovered
By Cynthia Rausch Allar
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
Spinning Pearls
By Sally Odgers
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
On the Border
By Johnmichael Simon
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2007
Fragments From Crete
By Jacqueline Cooke
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2006
Papa Bill
By Kristopher Smotherman
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2006
Island Matinee
By Jacqueline Cooke
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2005
Du Temps Perdu
By Raymond Southall
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2005
Love’s Labor Found
By Osmond Benoliel
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2005
Weather Report
By Guy Kettelhack
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2004
Remembering August 20, 1969 on Memorial Day
By Robert B. Robeson
Second Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2011
Hall of Fame
By Arlene Lidbergh-Jasper
Third Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2010
The Right Eye of Justice
By Dixon Hearne
Fourth Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2009
All Things Considered
By Victoria Gouldthorp
First Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2008
Visiting My Father’s Office
By Susan Keith
Second Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2007
Geraldine Fitzgerald & Saint Patrick’s Day in Pittsburgh
By Jan Breen
First Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2006
Chocolate Covered Crickets
By Jennifer Antonacci
First Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2005