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.
After the Final Skin Graft
By Dion O’Reilly
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2022
Places I Could Not Reach
By James Evans
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2022
Elegy for Childhood Written in a Language I Did Not Yet Speak, Addressed to the God I Once Knew
By Tamara Panici
First Prize, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2022
Something Old, Something New, in Uganda!
By Cathy Kreutter
Honorable Mention, North Street Book Prize 2022
Sleepwalkers, Volume 1: #Adulting Sucks
By Danny Gorny
Honorable Mention, North Street Book Prize 2022
My Pinsans and Me: Amara’s Talent Show
By Monica Canlas Tuy & Eric Tuy
Honorable Mention, North Street Book Prize 2022
Losing Time: AIDS Lessons in Love and Loss
By Lucien Agosta
Honorable Mention, North Street Book Prize 2022
Laundry Day
By Jeffrey Weinstock
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
A Garden in the Desert
By Debbie Weingarten
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
The Lizard Girl and the Alligator King
By P.L. Watts
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
A Final Deployment
By Cynthia Stock
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Searching for the Clear
By Sandra Sidi and Lauren Serrano
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Marshmallows
By Byron Spooner
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Fitting In
By Ronald McGuire
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
In Lieu of Flowers
By Michael Foote
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
We Go Way Back
By Ryan Collett
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom
By Noah Berlatsky
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
One Morning When Stalin Was on Network Television
By Daniel Waters
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Emily Dickinson Sits Down to Write the Morning After Watching “The Godfather” on Late Night Cable
By Peter Schmitt
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Ni Hao Isn’t the Way to My Vagina
By Maria Picone
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
I Don’t Think Virgins Deserve Spotify Premium
By Enchi
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Why So Many Penises (or Should I Say Pee-ni?)
By Megan Falley
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Snickering on the Fringe of Debauchery
By John Paul Davies
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Minnie and Dick’s Gender Reveal—Take Two
By Leila Murton Poole
First Prize, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022