Eighth Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners and finalists

FIRST PLACE

LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM
Facts about Deer and Other Poems

SECOND PLACE

NOAH WARREN
Horn Gate and Other Poems

THIRD PLACE (tie)

LEILA CHATTI
Muslim Girlhood

THIRD PLACE (tie)

KOREY WILLIAMS
Aubade

FINALISTS

Cameron Awkward-Rich

All My Friends Are Sad & Bright

Anders Carlson-Wee

Ms. Range Wants to See Me in It

Shawn Fawson

A Crow Flies Cleanly over the Cornstalks

Edgar Kunz

My Father at 23

Caits Meissner

The Visiting Room

Faisal Mohyuddin

Bhagat Singh and Faisalabad

Catherine Pond

Fly-Over States and At the Sunoco

Craig van Rooyen

Amazed

Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Prester John’s Book of Stars and Wanderer

Sarah Wedderburn

Winter 1940 and Marriage

Narrative’s annual Poetry Contest awards $3,300 in prizes.

And Don’t Miss:

The Spring Story Contest, with $5,000 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: July 31, 2025.

The Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, with $3,300 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: July 18, 2025.

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