2023 Competition Results

PEN WOMAN OF THE YEAR: Nancy Nesvik

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT: Pat Black-Gould

ART

1st Place: Pat Setser “Beckoning”

2nd Place: Cookie Davis “7 a.m. Appointment – Dressed in the Dark”

3rd Place: Anne Baehr “Dreamscape”

HM: Stephanie Pyren “Making Space”

LETTERS

FICTION

Category 1: Books, Novellas, E-Books 

1stplace: Mother in Name Only, Barbara M. Wolk

Honorable Mention: Cones of Uncertainty, Marleen Pasch

Category 2: Short stories, Plays, Scripts 

1stplace: Rocks and Rivers, Marleen Pasch

Honorable Mention: Statistics, Analytics, and Anecdotal Evidence, Claire Massey 

NONFICTION

Category 3: Books, biography, memoir, essays, inspirational

1stPlace: A Journey to Trieste, Karen McAferty Morris 

2ndPlace: A Literary Traveler’s Guide to the Gulf South, Diane Skelton

3rdPlace: With All My Heart: The Life Story of Luisa Maria Bisogno Minotti, Barbara Routen

Category 4: Communications, magazine/newspaper article/story

1stPlace: Rose and Her Kittens, Linda Mohr

2ndPlace: So Many Surveys, Carol White

3rdPlace: Meet St. Pete’s Real Life Indiana Jones, Jeannie Carlson

FLASH LITERATURE

Category 5: Fiction, nonfiction, memoir 

1stPlace: My Dates with Jim Morrison, Claire Massey

2ndPlace: Alone Is Like a Stone, Ronni Miller

3rdPlace: Lakeside, Carol White

POETRY:

Category 6: Traditional/Structured 

1stPlace: Cento: A Refugee’s Lament, Karen McAferty Morris

Honorable Mention: Amazing Delays, Barbara Routen

Category 7: Free Verse

1stPlace: Eggs for Sale, Karen McAferty Morris

2ndPlace: Ring of Luck, Claire Massey

3rdPlace: Healing, Lorraine Walker Williams

Honorable Mention: And Then We Light Candles Again, Virginia Nygard

Category 8: Writing for the Digital Domain 

1stPlace: The Gumbo Diaries, Diane Jones Skelton

Honorable Mention: Make Your Social Media Fun, Barbara Routen

CHILDREN

Category 9: Children’s Lit

1STPlace: A Fish Means Many Things, Barbara Routen

2ndPlace: Sacagawea: A Woman of the Shoshone Tribe, Peggy Harrell Jennings

3rdPlace: Silly Goose, Dolly Berthelot

MUSIC

First Place: Sheila Firestone for "Pandemic"

Second Place: Sheila Firestone for "Prelude"

Third Place: Kay Williamson for "Christmas Day"