Congratulations to our 2022 Writing Contest Finalists and Winners

Adult Nonfiction

Grand Prize Winner: Jim Gasperini – Fire in the Mind – From the Burning Bush to Burning Man, How We Imagine Fire

Category Winner: Melissa Geissinger – Three Seconds;

Shana Moore – Destination: Acceptance

Maria Barrs – Life Revisited

Mary Rosenthal – Looking for Myself Sober

Shreya Kelly – My Mom Is My Biggest Enemy

Riki Carignan – The Audition

Wren Jenson – The Secret-Tellers’ Mask

Susan Burgess-Lent – Trouble Ahead: Dangerous Missions with Desperate People

Marsha M. Evans – Was. Not Was.

Diana Nadeau – Where the Land Meets the Sea

Poetry

Category Winner: Leigh Lucas – The Thin Man

Hannah Watson – A Warrior Nonetheless

Lalit Kumar – Alone in San Francisco

Jeff Walt – Drunk Buddha

Daniel Moreschi – Forged by Flame

Jehr Schiavo – Hell ‘n’ Back

Sharon Harris – “It’s okay, Mom”

Christy Wise – Last Day of Prophecy Season

Kenneth Baker – Lunch with My Accountant

Sadie Miller – Poetry on the Moon

Constance Hanstedt – The Last Time I Saw My Brother

Ben Carignan – The Rinds of the Sky

Michael Miller – words

YA/Children’s

Category Winner: Anita Perez-Ferguson – Broken Promises

Vicki Montet – Big Rock

Jazzie de Leon – Brownsheep

Maddy Torosian – Children of a Secret War

Chester Wilson – Pleasant Avenue: Suburbia’s Homegrown Crime Syndicate

Mike Jackson – Promises

Alex Mullin – Sucker Punch

ZJ McBeattie – The Green Girl

Michael Cooper – Wages of Empire

 

Adult Fiction

Category Winner: Antonia Deignan – Mother

Mark Tricarico – Ask No Omen

Rebecca Marks Rudy – Burying Legacy

Catherine Bator – Central Avenue

Sherri Leigh James – Girl With A Past

Lani Jackson – Sing Yet of Elms

Maren Fewel – Something Spectacular

Will Sedar – The Carved Triangle

Masha Shukovich – The Endling

Katie Lohec Sondej – The Predator

Anje Campisi – The Story of Cyn

John Byrne Barry – When I Killed My Father: An Assisted Suicide Family Thriller

Katherine Briccetti – Whether They Be