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.
A Crown of Sonnets
By Phill Doran
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
Nineteen-Sixty
By Beebe Barksdale-Bruner
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
To Misunderstand Mariachi Music
By Louis Giron
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2011
War, Un Soir Après la Guerre, Lucky Strike Went to War
By John Spaulding
Finalist, War Poetry Contest 2010
Last Days of War, Shrapnel, Rite of Passage
By Vivian Faith Prescott
Finalist, War Poetry Contest 2010
The Success of Captain Whitaker’s Dress, Until the Piano Can No Longer Hold Its Tune, Typewriter
By Stephen Scott Whitaker
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2010
We Like War Better When It’s Wearing Lipstick
By Nishan Swais
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2010
A-bomb Dome, Tancho, I Have Begun the Folding of Cranes
By J. David Cummings
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2010
This Is How I’ll Tell It When I Tell It to Our Children
By Anna Scotti
Third Prize, War Poetry Contest 2010
Under the Surface
By Kelcey Stivers
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2012
The Color of Tomorrow
By Rajdeep Paulus
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2012
The Skedaddler
By Luke Melia
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2012
The Healing Heights of Machu Picchu and Dear Madame Renaud
By Erin Byrne
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2012
Searching for Father—A Tale of Repentance, Redemption and Resurrection
By Tony Myres
First Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2012
Sleeping Beauty — Au Courant
By Caroline Zarlengo Sposto
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
The Golden Fox
By Nicole Grace
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
The Cravin
By Duane Dodson
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
Brother and I
By Anne-Marie Cadwallader
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
The Path to a Village
By Helen Bar-Lev
Fourth Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
An Overcast Morning on Mulberry Street
By Shirley Valencia
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
Time Pieces Restored
By Sherri Felt Dratfield
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2011
juror number twelve
By Vernon Waring
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2011
Friends
By Marie Delgado Travis
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2011
Playstation Universe
By Johnmichael Simon
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2011
Camp Four Jeffrey, Inyo County, CA
By Gordon Preston
Fourth Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2011
