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.
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
Mica in the Rock
By Mary Ellen Gallagher
Third Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2004
The Guernsey Doll
By Rebecca Marshall-Courtois
Second Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2004
Keep Watching the Skies
By Amy Dunkleberger
Third Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2003
An Argument with Semonides* on His ‘Types of Women’
By Berwyn Moore
Second Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2010
Or Wend, Skull, With Your Teeth Like Bright Armor
By Susan McCabe
Third Prize, War Poetry Contest 2009
Wolverine and White Crow, Motivations, Insurrection and Resurrection
By Robert Hill Long
First Prize, War Poetry Contest 2009
