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War Poetry Contest 2009
Congratulations to the winners of our 2009 poetry contest on the theme of war!
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View past winning entries from contests hosted at Winning Writers.
Guy Kettelhack
Guy Kettelhack is the author or co-author of more than 30 nonfiction books. His poetry has been featured in Outstretch, Van Gogh's Ear, Melic Review, New Pleiades, Triplopia (in whose July 2004 “laughter contest” his poem “Log On” won first prize), David Taub e-motion (“Harp Strings” was selected to be…
Jacqueline Cooke
Jacqueline Cooke is a member of the Australian Society of Authors and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Tasmania—the island state of Australia. Her work has been broadcast on the BBC World Service and the ABC. She has been successful in intrastate, interstate and international short story and poetry awards and…
Gretchen Fletcher
Gretchen Fletcher's poetry has been published in journals including The Chattahoochee Review, Pacific Coast Journal, Northeast Corridor, Inkwell, Pudding Magazine, Upstreet, Canada's lichen, and online at Poetry Southeast and A Prairie Home Companion. Her poems have also been anthologized in Gival Press's Poetic Voices Without Borders, Ghost Road Press's Open…
Cynthia Rausch Allar
Cynthia Rausch Allar received her MFA in Writing from Spalding University in 2004. She has had poems published in Paper Street, Bloom, The Underwood Review, New Millennium Writings, Aethlon, and The Mad Poets Review, among others. Her essay, “'A Snake Lies Hid:' Aphra Behn's Poetry and the War Between the…
Sally Odgers
Tasmanian Sally Odgers has been writing poetry for forty years. In high school, she studied mostly modern poetry, (which she didn't much like), but fortunately the textbooks also contained metrical verse from earlier times, which she loved. She has been a full-time writer for many years, and enjoys writing fantasy.…
Tim Napier
Tim Napier was born in Philadephia, PA. He attended Germantown Friends School, Williams College (BA, Honors in English), and Connecticut College (MA in English with Distinction). At Connecticut College, Tim had the good fortune of studying under William Meredith for three years. Tim has recently retired from a teaching career…
Sam McCarver
Author of six novels in John Darnell Mystery Series, published by Penguin Putnam or Five Star. Has self-published writing books: Novel Writing for Wanna-be's and Poetry Writing for Wanna-be's. Has written and performed his poetry and has taught writing for 10 years.
Sandra Kasturi
Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer and editor, as well as co-creator of a kids' animated TV series. In 2005 she won ARC magazine's annual Poem of the Year award. She is the poetry editor of ChiZine and the Senior Editor of ChiZine Publications. Sandra has written three poetry chapbooks…
Joseph Gorman
Joe Gorman is a surgeon and cardiovascular scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in a suburb of Philadelphia with his wife Patti and their five children. The family enjoys the beach in summer and skiing/snowboarding in winter. He writes poetry as a hobby.
Judith Ford
Judith Ford is a psychotherapist and writer whose fiction and poetry have appeared in many literary journals. She has been nominated twice for Pushcart prizes, for poetry in 2000 and for fiction in 2001. She won the 2005 Willow Review Award for Prose. She is currently working on a memoir,…
George Carle
I am a family doctor who lives in a small highland village called Tighnabruaich on the west coast of Scotland. I have published poems in a number of magazines and written four poetry books. I believe like Thomas Hardy that poetry should be written “charged with emotion”.
Joyce M Shepherd
Joyce is a writer, artist and photographer. She has five poems that have been published, with four more poems and two short stories that have been accepted for publication. She has been writing actively for the past five years, and often writes poetry to coincide with her poetry works.
Bernard Mann
Bernard Mann is drawn to the terrain and seascape of words and their inherent rhythms, secrets, and powers. A poet, he is also a writer and author of work on landscape and environment and lives in Austin, Texas.
Reena Ribalow
Reena Ribalow is a poet and writer living in Jerusalem. She was born in New York City and educated at Hunter College High School and Queens College. She attended the University of Iowa Ph.D Program and Writer's Workshop on a Danforth Foundation Fellowship, after which she traveled through Africa and…
Jeanie Mercer
Jeanie Mercer, ever a lover of words, is an author, essayist and poet. She writes columns regularly for the Waco Tribune-Herald, where she has been on the Board of Contributors for about 25 years. Currently she focuses mostly on writing a collection of haiku for her children and grandchildren. A…
Alys Jackson
Alys Jackson spent 12 years teaching throughout Asia and the Middle East before settling in Australia. She began writing poetry in 2008 and won a first and a second prize in the 2009 Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Poetry Contest. She is currently working on her first book.
Christine Hemp
Christine Hemp is featured periodically on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition reading her commentary and poetry. Hemp has also been a poet-in-residence at three of our National Parks, and her work is now available in the cosmos—a poem of hers blasted off on a NASA mission to monitor pre-natal activity…
Rosmarie Epaminondas-Bohm
From starting my professional life as a cub reporter, travelling extensively and learning five languages, I graduated to psychiatrist, nurse, rocket scientist and cleaning lady in my first marriage, which produced two wonderful kids. In London I worked amongst other things as a freelance journalist for a German film trade…
Samuel Tan
Samuel is a student majoring in Accountancy, Economics and Mathematics, and lives in Singapore, a city-state surrounded by beautiful ocean. He has written numerous poems since discovering a passion for poetry as a teenager, and the 2009 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest was the first poetry contest he entered. Samuel's varied…
Judith Goldhaber
Judith Goldhaber is a poet, playwright, and journalist. As a poet, she has been addicted to the sonnet since the age of 14. She grew up in a 100-year-old farmhouse in New Jersey without electricity or indoor plumbing, but now lives in Berkeley, CA (with both). A collection of 100…
Gregory Loselle
Since publishing his first work, a play, at the age of eighteen, Gregory Loselle has won four Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA. He has also won the Academy of American Poets Prize, the William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and…
Fred Kruger
Boston raised, retired at 79 after 20 years a newspaper editor/feature writer followed by 30 years a residential real estate broker in Riverside, east of L.A., with an AB ('55) Brandeis U., BJ ('64) and MA ('65) U. of Mo., a poet for six years and a long-time, avid long…
Crystal-Angelee Burrell
Crystal-Angelee Burrell is currently an undergraduate freshman at Boston University. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, a place where everyday life quickly becomes inspiration for poetry. Other forms of inspiration come from personal feelings, because Crystal thinks that emotions are things that should be given a voice. Some…
Philip Brown
Born in England in 1950 Philip Brown paid little attention at school but did develop an appreciation and enjoyment of literature. A variety of short lived jobs enabled him to avoid embarking on a career for several years before training to become a professional social worker. He has worked mainly…
Caroline Zarlengo Sposto
Caroline Zarlengo Sposto is the current Poetry Editor of the Humor in America blog. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Colorado and an M.S. in Electronic Media from Kutztown University. She has published several poems, short stories and essays. Caroline and her husband live in Memphis,…
Duane Dodson
Duane Dodson has been writing poetry ever since he could pick up a pen, and he especially enjoys the art of recitation, having committed well over one hundred poems to memory. Currently an assistant professor of English at Stark State College, in Canton, Ohio, he favors traditional verse forms, and…
Anne-Marie Cadwallader
I was born in the Philippines, and grew up in Manila with my brother. My mother was Spanish, born on a plantation south of Manila, child of immigrants from Spain. My father was a transplanted Texan, an explorer and developer of mines who lived in the Philippines for over fifty…
Beebe Barksdale-Bruner
Beebe Barksdale-Bruner has a BFA in painting and an MFA in poetry. Her poetry collection It Comes To Me Loosely Woven was published in 2007 by Press 53 of North Carolina. She likes to explore other media including clay, figure drawing, and photography, and find things in common within these…
Shirley Valencia
Shirley Valencia grew up in the beautiful hills of eastern Kentucky, then later lived on both coasts and some places in between before settling in Ohio. Now retired from a civilian position at Wright-Patterson AFB, she enjoys having extra time for all the things she loves, including her greatest passions,…
Sherri Felt Dratfield
Sherri graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Goucher College with majors in drama and English (concentration in poetry writing), received an MFA in Acting from the University of Denver and a JD, Order of the Coif, from NYU. Sherri has worked as a union actor, a theater producer, and an attorney…
Andrea Theisen
Andrea Zamarripa Theisen was born and raised in Uvalde, Texas. At the age of 13, she dropped out of the 7th grade to begin working full time. An ex-migrant worker, she relocated to Wisconsin in the late 1960s and at the age of 27, received her GED in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.…
Carol Milkuhn
Since retiring from teaching, I have devoted much of my time to poetry (both reading and writing). I especially enjoy writing poetry about historical events and literary classics. My poetry has appeared in several magazines and chapbooks, including Literal Latte, Lyric Magazine, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, the Anthology of Vermont Writers,…
Sydney Lea
Sydney Lea's eleventh collection of poetry, I Was Thinking of Beauty, is due in April 2013. A former Pulitzer finalist and founder of New England Review, he is Poet Laureate of Vermont.
Janet Ireland Trail
Janet Ireland Trail spent the first twenty years of her life traveling and observing the world as the daughter of a colonel in the United States Army. For forty years, she taught English, journalism, and creative-writing in high school and college. Along the way, she married and raised two children.…
Myron L. Stokes
Myron is a Readjustment Counseling Therapist and works with combat veterans. He is also a USAF veteran who has been writing poetry and fiction with a passionate and dedicated purpose for twelve years. Myron has work published in Margie, International Journal of American Poetry 2005 and the Ellen LaForge Poetry…
Jessica Morrow
Jessica Morrow lives and works in northern Arizona, writing poetry, reading too much, and teaching English. She is also a yoga instructor, a dog owner, and a coffee addict.
Elizabeth Melville
I was born in Brooklyn, New York. I began writing when I was about 11 years old. I most often write about spirituality, but I also write about overcoming odds, the beauty of my city of birth and its diverse peoples, and unconditional love…whether it's for yourself, or another. Writing…
Frances Truscott
I live outside Tunbridge Wells in Kent. My day job is as a Kleinian Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist which I do part time. I spent a lot of my earlier life living in the USA and got my first degree there. I wrote poetry as a child, then in school,…
Graham Lancaster
Author Graham Vivian Lancaster lives in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. SCUBA diver, sky diver, nature lover, his work is inspired by a widely varied life of not enough hours in a day. “This isn't a dress rehersal.”
Noble Collins
If a writer writes in the forest does he or she make a sound? Only if picked up on the sensitive sonar of folks like Tom Howard. I have been writing all my life, but only in my retirement years have I submitted anything for publication. To have the great…
Debbie Camelin
Debbie Amirault Camelin is a poet and author of short stories. Her works tap into an deep-seated interest in her Acadian heritage and love of all things African. She works as an instructional designer and has a background in journalism. She also facilitates workshops on walking the labyrinth as a…
Mike Burch
Michael R. Burch is the editor of The HyperTexts, where he has published three Pulitzer Prize nominees and recent winners of the T.S. Eliot, Richard Wilbur and Howard Nemerov awards. His poetry has been translated into Russian, Farsi and Gjuha Shqipe (Albanian); he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize…
Paul Hamill
Paul Hamill's poetry publications include the chapbook Winter Mind (Pudding House, 2003); a full-length volume, The Year of Blue Snow: Northern Poems (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001), and many poems in journals including Poetry, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Seneca Review, and The Cortland Review. He works as an administrator at Ithaca…
Zoe Krasney
I am an East Coast native transplanted to New Mexico 13 years ago, which feels a lot closer to heaven. Here the land itself has radiance, giving back to the sun. The desert is so alive. Right now outside the window I see a coyote, the color of winter grasses,…
Phyllis Jean Green
Phyllis Jean Green's awards include First Prize, Dan Sullivan Memorial Contest, High Commendation, Margaret Reid Contest, and Finalist, New Millennium Writings. Pudding House published her chapbook, Above and Below, in 2006. Her many credits include a biography (Diverse City Press, Canada), Iodine, Mad Hatters' Review, The New Writer, Sulphur River…
Tom Berman
Tom Berman has been a member of Kibbutz Amiad in the Upper Galilee, Israel for over 50 years. He grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, having arrived there aged 5 from Czechoslovakia with the Kindertransport in 1939. He is a scientist whose poetry has been published here and there, now and…
Helen Bar-Lev
Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York in 1942. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology, has lived in Israel for 49 years, and has had over 100 exhibitions of her landscape paintings, 34 of which were one-woman shows. Her poems and artwork have appeared in numerous online and print anthologies…
Joanne Lau
I am a 24-year-old law student who studies in Hong Kong. I am currently doing Professional Certificates in Laws after taking a postgraduate Juris Doctor degree in law and majoring in politics during my undergraduate years. I've been a leisure reader and amateur writer of poetry since university, but this…
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