First Place — Mary Ryan / Fairfax, VA The Offering
Second Place
Joel Ash / Grantham, NH Zeus Seuss
Jomarc Bernardo / Tustin, CA Child-like to Childish
Samantha Campbell / Los Angeles, CA The Planet Kid
Hannah Dahleen / Seattle, WA Summer Fling
Ryen Goebel / Destin, FL The Sleeper
Anna Harris / Enumclaw, WA The Color Red
Abby Hodson / Monroe, CT Running Blind
Sheila Huang / Madison, CT A Lover Lost, a Killer Convicted
Anna Krieske / Aurora, OR Suits
Jenny Lynch / Gloucester, VA The Brick in My Stomach
Barbara Malley / Hingham, MA A Nefarious Ode to Noses
Melinda Marchiano / Nipomo, CA Huayna Picchu
Olivia Matvey / Pittsburgh, PA My Lurking, Abusing Anxiety
Elizabeth Moroni / Denver, CO Two Midwestern Women at 2am
Jodi Neely / Cameron, WV I’m So Sorry, Langston
Josephine Shelton / Reed City, MI Ernie
Barbara Steinhauser / Parker, CO American Blessing
P. J. Stump / Loveland, CO Cat Patrol: Ode to Mandy
Heather Vance / St. Charles, IL Beetlejuice
Georgia Williams / Tacoma, WA Coming Home After a Rape
Third Place
Diane Atkinson / Bayport, NY Lobo
Gordon Bangert / Vail, AZ Ageless
Casey Barnett / Moonachie, NJ Golden Cage
Isabel Baute / Lewisburg, TN Petrichor
Kurt Beck / Oakville, CT Carma
Megan Becker / Spicewood, TX With Shaky Hands
Anne Brottem / Tacoma, WA Volcano Warning
Nicole Brown / Uniontown, AR Addiction
Anna Butterworth / Holmfirth, West Yorkshire Little Moon
Michele Cabral / Milo, ME Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sienna Campbell / Williamstown, VT Vociferous Children
Samantha Carpenter / Hamden, CT Hand on Bone
Thomas Chevraux / Canton, OH Novus Ordo Seclorum
Domenick Chillura / Tampa, FL Agrigento Sicily
Nella Cotrupi / Richmond Hill, ON Fresh Snow on Rooftops
Tatiana Courtney / Apex, NC Collateral
David Darrow / Dayton, OH Plastic
Benjamin Davis / Sturbridge, MA Flowers and Factories in Bloom
Janet Deckard / Texas City, TX The Last Toast (of the Doolittle Raiders)
Emilie Dulles / McLean, VA Two Grains
Chris Fabucci / East Meadow, NY The Grain Theory
Diana Forbes / Ridgecrest, CA Winter Rains
Izzy Frabotta / Hudson, OH Ode to the Toad
Alexis Frambes / Burke, VA In Siren Song
Shaun Gallagher / Augusta, ME Yellow
Oscar Gannon / London, England Sinking
James Gao / Homer, AK The Battlefield
Wanetta Gines / San Diego, CA Chapped Lips and Crushed Potato
Gretchen Gloff / Lawrence, PA Truth
Caitlin Goldtrap / Fort Smith, AR Jim Halpert
Richard Hartline / Hampton, VA What Telemachus Knew
Paul Hedley / Blyth, United Kingdom Heretofore
Jade Hendriks / Raleigh, NC The Butcher’s Daughter
Joania Hernandez / Cooper City, FL We Wouldn’t Want Our Daughter
Rachel Higson / Irvine, CA Whistling Bird on Teapot’s Spout
Angela Hill / Tucson, AZ Unfeathered
Russ Housman / Arlington, VT Untitled
Kyle Imoto / Chula Vista, CA Bullying
Shana Jackson / Richmond, VA The Escort
Ashley Johnson / Richmond, VA Looking for Slugs
Sequoia Johnson / Exeter, NH Salt Stains
Saffron Jolly / Carson City, NV Lamplit Confessions
Emilee Jones / San Antonio, TX An Outcast Wish Heard Wrong
Anne Kahn / Wilmington, DE Bipolar to Order
Kyle Kaplan / New York, NY A Balancing Act
Fred Karns / Hersey, MI The Man That Looks Like Me
Mary Kienholz / Spokane, WA Old Wooden Gate
Jay Kim / Vancouver, BC The Light Glared in My Eyes
Lisa Kimbrough / Spring Hill, TN More
Steve King / Brooklyn, NY Andrea Ireland Parker
Sharon King-Jeffers / Waikoloa, HI A Drive Downtown
Thomas Koron / Grand Rapids, MI He Rides Above the Clouds
Baylee Kram / Dickinson, ND Prison of the Phoenixed Leaves
Barbara Lindstrom / Lawrence, KS Buried in Her Feragamo Shoes
Jubilee Lipsey / Winthrop Harbor, IL Paper Wings
Deborah Lorne / Brady, TX Blue Sage Pastures
Ray Loveland / Omaha, NE Little Boys and Mud Puddles
Alan Man / La Jolla, CA The Debt
Claudia Marinozzi / Gloucester, MA 5 O’clock
Courtney Marshall / Princeton, IN Sixteen
Ron Matros / Mesilla, NM Cold Mountain
Claire McDonald / Oakland, CA (How Do) I Work
Olivia Mock / Twin Lake, MI Love of Aquamarine
Rowen Moran / Trumbull, CT Date Rape
Minh-Vien Nguyen / San Francisco, CA People Helping People
Winston Nugent / St. Croix, VI The Mermaid of Black River
Charles Omer / Temecula, CA Necessary Lines
John Otteni / Kirkland, WA Salad Days
Sherman Pearl / Santa Monica, CA Weathervane
Thomas Phelan / Ramsey, NJ John Doe: Old Sailor
Rachel Richmond / Purcellville, VA For a Friend Who Killed Himself
Allen Ross / Springfield, MO Ode to the Bank
Dreco Salgado / Richmond, TX Vaccine
Sydney Satz / Margate, FL Bimini
Caroline Schmitz / Los Angeles, CA Red Toyota
John Schmoyer / Schnecksville, PA A Letter from Washington
Philip Scott / Durham, NC Wounded Warrior
Leila Sen / San Francisco, CA Four Maids Fair
Patricia Senkaylar / Staten Island, NY Burgeon
Ciaran Short / New York, NY Villanelle
William Shuttleworth / Jacksonville, FL Get Connected!
Emma Stewart / Fowler, OH Words Among the Wreckage
Kathleen Story / Palatka, FL Annihilation
Michelle Strauch / Cassville, MO Shadow Dancers
Amber Sutherland / Nampa, ID Cameo Buttons and Gingham
Marleena Tamminen / Fayetteville, GA When the Dust Settles
Hari Tetala / Apex, NC Maquillage
Keva Thomas / Terrytown, LA The Artist’s Brush
Liam Thomas / Cheshire, CT I Saved This One Nabokov
Maria Valenzano Prince / Tillamook, OR Mud
Tara Van Kleef / Lake Park, GA Untitled
Mikee Vicari / Surfside Beach, SC Stiks
Heidi Voigt / Clear Lake, MN Orange Chocolate
Sarah Waters / Slocomb, AL Dissatisfaction
Jeffrey White / Elkhorn, WI Prolepsis
John White / La Mesa, CA A Writer’s Sonnet
Mary Williams / Market Drayton, Shrops A Barista’s Pantoum
Leeland Wilson / Evart, MI The Old Folks
Megan Wolsfeld / Port Coquitlam, BC Fire
Lucy Worthen / Duluth, GA Limericks by Lucy