Contest Winners

Contest 32 - Nobody Can Stay in the Garden of Eden

Living and Dead Things by Riley James Russo

Falling Into Eden by River Reid

Contest 31 - Fixed Forms

Presumptuous and Proud/I am My Blood by Riley James Russo

Contest 30 - Back to the Future

Intuition by Allison Hendershot

Contest 29 - History, Now!

Blind Pig by Allison Hendershot

Contest 28 - Music!

$20 by Haylie Jarnutowski

Contest 27 - Dystopia/Utopia

I Cannot Allow That by Dylan Germann

A Tale of Two Arcadias; Or, What Could Yet Be by Julianna Reidell

Contest 26 - Re-Imagining

Below the Surface by Sydney Howse

Contest 25 - September 26

The Day of Lost Innocence by Autym Dahlman

Contest 24 - Flash Fiction

Is Anyone There by Jewel Miller

Contest 23 - Love

My Last Boyfriend by Julianna Reidell

Copper Candy-Heart Conversation by Justice Cressley

Contest 22 - FEAR

FRESH COFFEE 24/7 by Lizzy Woodall

Lemonade Pork Chops by Sydney Howse

Contest 21 - Ekphrasis!

Metronome by Ryland McGinniss 

Danse Macabre in Me Minor by Jocelyn Royal

Contest 20 - Spring Collaboration

The In Between by Ryland McGinniss and Julianna Reidell

Another Cliche Spring by Daijah Patton and Ryan Hiemenz

Contest 19 - Instant Ekphrasis

The Shards to my Petals by Haley Lofland

Contest 18 - Instant Poetry

The Bluest Goddess by Sierra Tufts-Sicard

Contest 17 - Spooky Season!

Stiff by Ryan Hiemenz

Contest 16 - National Poetry Month!

Color Me Blue by Michaela Coll

Archers by Sierra Tufts-Sicard (Honorable Mention)

Ae Freislighe - A Spider's Poetry by Jazmin Collins (Honorable Mention)

Contest 15 - Rebirth

Unbirthing by Elizabeth Rudderow

Marathon Runner by Michaela Coll (Honorable Mention)

Contest 14 - Gratitude

Good Things Happen in Philadelphia by Ryan Hiemenz

Contest 13 - Social Justice 

My Dearest Child by Jazmin Collins

Contest 12 - 2020 Vision

I Went to College and All I Got Was This Nicotine Addiction by Danita Mapes

Contest 11 - Personal Essay Writing

Intersecting Identities by Amirah Knox 

Contest 10 - Fear

I'm Afraid to be an Atheist by Julie Snider

Contest 9 - Social Justice Redux

The Gray by Bridget Bradshaw

Contest 8 - Spring and All 

Love in Bloom by Bridget Bradshaw (Co-Winner) 

On Feeling Free by Elizabeth Rudderow (Co-Winner)

Contest 7 - This I Believe 

Untitled by Harley Canella

Contest 6 - Halloween 

The Specter by Ryan Repholz

Contest 5 - Dream Songs

The Doll by Bobbie Stein 

Drowned and Blooming by Rachel Gonzalez (Honorable Mention)

Contest 4 - Haiku 

I Was Born in the Soil by Emmalee Gagnon (Co-Winner)

The Pining of an Introverted Mind by Jeremy Lepore (Co-Winner)

Contest 3 - Ekphrasis 

Sea in the Sky by Rebecca Andrade

Contest 2 - The Social Justice Poem

Stigma by Rebecca Andrade

Contest 1 - The Prose Poem 

Ant Farm by Deb Gilmore