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.
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
What I Did in the 20th Century
By Tony Peyser
Third Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2009
Via Negativa, Visiting Uncle Peter’s Grave, Carolina Grasshoppers
By Jude Nutter
Third Prize, War Poetry Contest 2008
In the First Days of the War, Memorial Day
By David Brendan Hopes
Second Prize, War Poetry Contest 2008
I Also Married the War, The camis come out, War Paperwork
By Carrie Preston
Third Prize, War Poetry Contest 2006
The Old Salty Poems
By Harry E. Gilleland Jr
Second Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2008
Infidelity, For Those Held Captive for Decades in Darkness, The Map
By Jude Nutter
First Prize, War Poetry Contest 2005
The French Railroad at Quang Tri, Snapshots from a Battle, Mud-Walking
By Richard Levine
Third Prize, War Poetry Contest 2002
Does Anyone Know I’m Here?
By Daniel E. Speers
First Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2005
Mason City Ladies’ Sewing Circle
By Mary Ann Wehler
Second Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2004
