Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2017 Spring Writing Contest. The following is a list of the contests, their judges, winners, and those who received honorable mention.
Poetry
Mark Craver Poetry Award:
Judge: Sheila McMullin
Winner: [duel]ity – Ela Thompson
Virginia Downs Poetry Award:
Judge: Sarah Ann Winn
Winner: Say Uncle -Laurel Ferretti
Honorable Mention: Tiptoe – Ben Brezner
Honorable Mention: How Now, Ophelia? – Alexandria Petrassi
Honorable Mention: In Paris They Kiss on Main Street – Darcy Gagnon
Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Award:
Judge: Scott Weaver
Winner: On River Road – Emily Green
Honorable Mention: Immigration and Naturalization Services Report #1,209 – Elizabeth Vana
Honorable Mention: Nutrition – Claudia Rojas
Honorable Mention: Theft, for Juana Ines – Emma Bleker
Mary Roberts Rinehart Poetry Award:
Judge: Kate Partridge
Winner: In the Field of Swinging Debris – Madeleine Wattenberg
Honorable Mention: Dead Reckoning – Ben Rader
Nonfiction
Mary Roberts Rinehart Nonfiction Award:
Judge: Melanie McCabe
Winner: Barrier – Katie Branca
Honorable Mention: Not Waving but Drowning - Sarah Bates
Honorable Mention: 2,000 km – Suzy Rigdon
Alan Cheuse Nonfiction Award:
Judge: Judith Adkins
Winner: Schmutzig Tanz – Sam Ashworth
Fiction
Alan Cheuse Fiction Award:
Judge: Elizabeth Word Gutting
Winner: The North Star – Stephanie Ahrin
Honorable Mention: Living Water – Michelle Webber
Honorable Mention: The Binding – Sarah Wheeler
Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Award:
Judge: Kirsten Clodfelter
Winner: Microplastics and Other Consequences - Michelle Orabona
Honorable Mention: Daddy – Sarah Wheeler
Honorable Mention: How Come That Blood – Ben Rader
Dan Rudy Fiction Award:
Judge: Scott Garson
Winner: Legacy – Stephanie Ahrin
Honorable Mention: Interrogations – John Guthrie
Honorable Mention: movie night – Robbie Maakestad
Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Award:
Judge: Matt Burriesci
Winner: His Scaly Self – Joe Kuhn
April 24, 2017
