Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

FIRST PLACE

SADDIQ DZUKOGI
Egress


SECOND PLACE

JULIA KOLCHINSKY
About Suffering and Other Poems


THIRD PLACE

BRIAN TIERNEY
This Close to Dark


FINALISTS

Cristen Aery
The Trade

Adedayo Agarau
Self-Portrait in a Dream and Other Poems

Pam Bernard
Falling

Bruce Bond
Chiaroscuro

Brian Gyamfi
The Fall and Strange Tree

Haley Laningham
Man with a Gun and a Girlfriend

Olga Mexina
Don’t Say War

Miguel Martin Perez
Bélizaire, Sponsored Content, and Daisies

Craig Van Rooyen
Mockingbird Ode

Sandy Solomon
Shrug


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.