2025 Winners!
First prize: $500
What I Need What I Don't by Joy Underhill
Second prize: $300
White Cloverine Brand Salve by Jeanne Grinnan
Third prize: $100
The Fourth Way by Amaya McClean
Two honorable mentions: $50
Salt Potatoes by Laurie Ward
Orphan by Meredith Doyle
Our contest issue is available online.
While not every essay submission can win one of our prizes, many were worthy of praise.
At least we can offer you the following recognition for your writing resume:
Finalists:
Canyon Cries (Robin Mills)
The Seedling (Carol D'Agostino)
The Waiting Room (Kathleen Tighe)
The P Man (Mary Purdy)
Eighty Five Things Men Have Said to Me (Malika Kapadia)
Additional Entries of Note (in no specific order):
Grieving by RIchard Hague; A Tangent of Poetry by Sandy Valentine; Reflections From the Mirror by Cynthia Weissbein-Macken; All That Jingles Isn't Gold by Carol Llewellyn; In Spite of Myself by Kathy Myers; No Words by Joyce Arnold; A Dog Blessing by Earlene Gleisner; Stroke of the Pen by Jessica Hildebrand; Letting the Apple Roll by Judy Hager
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2025 JUDGES:
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Susan Bono is a writing teacher and freelance editor who published Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative in print and online at www.tiny-lights.com from 1995-2014. Her work has appeared in anthologies, magazines, newspapers, on stage and radio. Her collected essays, What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home, is available wherever books are sold. For more, visit www.SusanBono.com. |
Gregory Gerard Allison's work has been published by Tiny Lights, Lake Affect, and other journals. In 2015, Rochester’s City Magazine included him in a list of Five local authors Rochesterians should have on a bookshelf. His lastest book, My Grandfather's Clocks, (2024, The Big Brick Review) chronicles a five-year search to locate his grandfather's missing hand-crafted clock collection (praised by Golden Age Hollywood celebrities; lost for 60+ years). For more, visit www.gregorygerard.net. |
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Sonja Livingston is the author of four books and the flash memoir workbook, 52 Snapshots. Honors include an AWP book prize for her childhood memoir, Ghostbread, a New York State Arts Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, an Arts & Letters Prize and a VanderMey Nonfiction Prize. Sonja is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches in Vermont College of Fine Arts’ Postgraduate Writing Program. For more, visit www.sonjalivingston.com. |
