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.
Clock Signal: The Medulla of the Device
By Kathy Keating
Second Prize, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
Why Be Coy When You Could Be Pregnant?
By Theresa Sowerby
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
Shall We Go to the Seaside Dear?
By Nina Thilo
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
Former 90s Supermodel Cindy Crawford Says People Shouldn’t Worry About Aging
By Lori Jakiela
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
To the Man Sitting in Front of Me Who Had His Chair Pushed All the Way Back from Before Take Off for the Duration of the 10-Hour Flight
By Erin Kirsh
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
How Thirteen Famous Men Performed Cunnilingus
By Michael Meyerhofer
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
If I Can Hear You Chew, I Have Fantasized About Your Death
By Daniel Ari
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018
The Insurgent
By Eliot Khalil Wilson
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
The Following Shadow
By Kathleen Spivack
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
The Vultures of Mumbai
By Jeanne-Marie Osterman
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
Sonnet for the Driveways of Our Childish Years
By Curtis LeBlanc
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
Seeing Through Glass
By Michelle Tibbetts
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
A Short Bibliography of Secrets
By Mary K. O’Melveny
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
My Brother In Law Leaves the World
By Richard Brook
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
From the Mouth of Kitsee’s Inlet
By A.T. Hincapie
First Prize, Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2017
The Cricket Cries, the Year Changes
By Cynthia Harris-Allen
Honorable Mention, North Street Book Prize 2017
Girls Needed $200/HR Weekends and Nights
By Cady Vishniac
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
No One Said It Would Be Easy
By Cady Vishniac
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
Two More Fishing Trips
By Jacqueline Sheehan
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
To Live Without Air
By Tracy Dowling
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
Arizabesu
By Elizabeth Brina
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
Moving Past the Label
By Deb Brandon
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
Obroni’s Heart
By Laure-Helene Boudier
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
My Mother’s Life
By Queenie Au
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
The Finder
By Wendie Burbridge
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017
The Mule Deer
By Debbie Weingarten
First Prize, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2017