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.
Where Nothing Ever Happens
By Greg Wright
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2014
Gerontophobia
By Peggy Schimmelman
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2014
Growing Pains
By Atossa Shafaie
Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2014
What Will You Say When Your Child Asks: “Why Didn’t You Invest in Eastern Poland?”
By Simon Hendrie
First Prize, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2014
Hampton Bay Progressive Wall Sconce
By Janine Certo
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2014
Connor the Cunning Cartographer
By Ben Jones
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2014
I Always Hate Going In There
By David Amerman
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2014
Untitled (“I like to abbreve…”)
By Aubrey Sonnenschein
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2014
What I Sometimes Think Other Poets’ Book Blurbs Must Say About Me
By Nancy Pagh
Second Prize, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2014
One Soldier’s Day, in Pieces, Incline of the Heart, City War Zone
By Elaine Zimmerman
Finalist, War Poetry Contest 2009
Baggage Claim, In/Out Country: Sergeant Kokesh, Bomb Scare
By David Allen Sullivan
Finalist, War Poetry Contest 2009
We Need You Now, Maya, Atta Sends a Tape from Paradise
By Lynn Shoemaker
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2009
Japan 1944: Fusen Bakudan, The Time and Fates of Man
By Jon E. Seaman
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2009
Memories, My Life as an American, My Neighbor’s Secret
By Paul Christensen
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2009
Watching the News in Spain, Asking My Father About a Scar on His Arm Over Dinner, Some Pages
By James Tyner
Finalist, War Poetry Contest 2008