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.
Waiting for the Lions to Stop Texting Their Ex-Girlfriends
By Logan Ellis
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2013
Julia Warhola Speaks
By Vernon Waring
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Barbas de Oro
By Andrea Theisen
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
I Want to Live in an Edward Hopper Painting
By Tony Peyser
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
The Rough Wooing
By Carol Milkuhn
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Suite in Mudtime
By Sydney Lea
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Obituary for a Bay Tree
By Ellen Ficarra
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Raising My Arm
By Janet Ireland Trail
Fourth Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
A Trilogy of Love and Loss
By Carmine Dandrea
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
the death of memory
By Vernon Waring
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
For My Ancestors
By Myron L. Stokes
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
To Steal, Or Not to Steal
By Robert B. Robeson
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2012
A Mother’s Musings
By Nirupama Kotru
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2012
Selling the Ranch
By Maureen Flannery
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2012
After It Rains
By Stacie Tomita
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2013
King Elementary
By Michael Allonois Peters
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2013
Naughty Catholic Girl
By Jasmine Belen
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2013
A Rose by Any Other Name
By Maria Ashworth
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2013
She Hath Done What She Could
By Doreen E. Massey
Third Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2013
In Which I Feign Injury to Get Out of Wrestling Tristan Reed
By Scott Latta
Honorable Mention, Sports Fiction & Essay Contest 2013
If Only Your Golf Clubs Could Speak
By David Margolis
Honorable Mention, Sports Fiction & Essay Contest 2013
