1st Place - Poetry

1st Place - Fiction

1st Place - Creative NonFiction

Runner Up - Poetry

Finalist - Poetry

Four Words

News mouths spout death tolls like ringside scorekeepers Some blood thousand Israelis to some blood thousand Palestinians       as if less dead wins While fork-tongued politicians flick the air for some safewhere       between...

Finalist - Poetry

Finalist - Poetry

Finalist - Poetry

Finalist - Poetry

Slant

Dripped coffee (drip coffee) on the draperies – the stain will remain a reminder of this mistake.   Thank God it wasn’t espresso. His anger is stronger than Gunpowder.   The drapes were(n’t) new, thrift store treasure...

Runner Up - Fiction

Finalist - Fiction

Finalist - Fiction

Finalist - Fiction

DreamWorld

           I am a daredevil, I have always been a daredevil, when someone tells me not to do something I do the exact opposite. When I was little I was the kid who said “Bloody Mary” 3 times in the bathroom mirror. The one who...

Finalist - Fiction

Finalist - Fiction

Runner Up - Creative Nonfiction

Finalist - Creative Nonfiction

Finalist - Creative Nonfiction

Finalist - Creative Nonfiction