Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

FIRST PLACE

KEITH S. WILSON
Muse and Other Poems


SECOND PLACE

ANNE HAVEN MCDONNELL
What Dark Tastes Like and Other Poems


THIRD PLACE

ANNA JOURNEY
Golden Egg and Invertible Head as a Basket of Fruit


FINALISTS

Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie
My Two Wild Hands

Britt Allen
Harvest

Yasmine Ameli
Bedtime Stories

Emma Aylor
Museum and Other Poems

Jessica Lee
When I Think of Early Romance I Think of Fishing

Carol Light
Sins of Omission

Dion O’Reilly
Time in the Burn Ward and Other Poems

Michael A. Reyes
Carmelita/Michael

Heather Sellers
On a Late June Evening in My Driveway

Jacob Sunderlin
Best Practices for Speaking to the Father


And Don’t Miss:

The Fall Story Contest, with $5,000 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: Nov. 21, 2025.