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Poetry

1st Place Finnegan Cole "Waterbug"
2nd Place Katelyn Bennett "Snowed"
3rd Place Gabrielle Ortiz "Silence"

 

Fiction/Memoir

1st Place Tatum Allison "Aravella and the Keys of New Beginnings" (fiction)
2nd Place Sarah Oliveira "The Hidden Language of Belonging" (memoir)
3rd Place (tie) Atreyu Daylan Howard "Still Darkness" (fiction)
3rd Place (tie) Zoe Hayhurst "A Bittersweet Goodbye" (memoir)

 

Special Recognition: Foreign Language Poetry

  Alexa Palacios Sanchez

"El Mundo" (Spanish Language Original)

"El Mundo" (English Translation)

Poetry

1st Place Adrianna Linder "Like a Dog"
2nd Place Nicholas Browning "Gas Station Magnets"
3rd Place Miguel Olvera "N FM 51"

 

Fiction/Memoir

1st Place Haven Smith "The Tale of Two Babies"
2nd Place Caleb Turner "A Letter to the Universe"
3rd Place Finnegan Cole "My Side of the River"

 

Poetry

1st Place Mya McKinney "The Overgrown Self"
2nd Place Harvest Bowman "The Skeleton"
3rd Place Brendan Dixon "Water"

 

Short Story

1st Place Pixie Easley "Labyrinth of Reflections"
2nd Place Jareth Woodson "Bitch’s Brew"
3rd Place Bridget Lapp "grey and Red"

 

Poetry

1st Place Isaac Putnam "Motel Beauty Queen"
2nd Place Christiana Dalton "deathtime"
3rd Place Harvest Bowman "Peace"

Short Story

1st Place Olivia Tokar "Wonderings"
2nd Place Jareth Woodson "Hallelujah"
3rd Place Noah Newmann "The Devils We Share"

 

Poetry

1st Place Harvest Bowman "The Stranger"
2nd Place Mya McKinney "My Garden"
3rd Place Lydia Thomas "Never Know 'Til It's Gone"

 

Short Story

1st Place Hanna Burgess "A Plunge into Icy Waters"
2nd Place Noah Newmann "Pickett's Field"
3rd Place Ashlyn Nance "Ruby Redd's Cleaning Service"

 

Poetry

1st Place Robert Heater "The War"
2nd Place Robert Heater "Do You Remember When We First Started"
3rd Place Milly Rowden "The Eyes of the Painting"

 

Short Fiction

1st Place Elliott Mudd "The Call"
2nd Place Alexandra Pitman "Last Call"
3rd Place Finn Mac Cool "My Letter to You"

 

Creative Nonfiction

1st Place Bracy Hill "I Can do it"
2nd Place Rober Heater "Laugh at My Mistake"

 

Poetry

1st Place Cody Lawson
2nd Place David Russell
3rd Place Michael Brownlow

 

Short Fiction

1st Place Clint King
2nd Place Krista Cornelius
3rd Place Joshua Campbell
Honorable Mention Finn MacCool

 

Creative Nonfiction

1st Place Clint King
2nd Place Joshua Campbell
3rd Place Diana Meador
Honorable Mention Ashley Milligan

 

 

English