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