Marion Doyle Poetry Award

1st: Janet Fagal, “Family Reunion”

2nd: Jennifer Hambrick, “If this were heaven, if this were Earth”

3rd: Janine DeBaise, “Breath”

HM: Marcia Zina Mager, “Epitaph”

HM: Martha Steger, “The Long Winter of Cancer”

 

Marjorie Davies Roller Nonfiction Award

1st: Wilma Davis & Diana de Avila, “Soldier, Sister, Savant”

2nd: Anita Keira, “Walking on Water”

3rd: Sherry Boschert, “37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Sex Discrimination”

 

Norman C. and Marjorie J. Roller Award

1st: Janine DeBaise, “Wings”

2nd: Lynn Hansen, “Scientists at Sea: Sharing the Southern Ocean Voyage”

3rd: Sandra Huff, “In an Emergency, Stay in Your Boat ”

 

Anita Marie Boggs Memorial Poetry Award

1st: Karen McAferty Morris, “The Straw Ladies”

2nd: Betty Prisendorf, “Last Letters”

3rd: Lois Batchelor Howard, “Invisible”

HM: Vonnie Winslow Crist, “Chagall’s Village”

HM: Judith McGinn, “In Yellow Houses”

 

Della Crowder Miller Poetry Award (Sonnet)

1st: Karen McAferty Morris, “Sonnet for the Women”

2nd: Louise Kantro, “Anacapa Island, Then and Now”

3rd: Karen McAferty Morris, “Autumn Sonnet”

HM: Lynn Hansen, “Mono Lake Morning Reflections”

 

Della Crowder Miller Poetry Award (Free Verse)

1st: Nancy Haskett, “Tribute to Neva”

2nd: Patricia Underwood, “On Slavery”

3rd: Cleo Griffin, “Heritage”

HM: Anna Di Bella, “When Did It End”

 

Catherine Cushman Leach Poetry Award

1st: Kathie Isaac Luke, “Blame Aphrodite”

2nd: Margaret Lies Hanna, “In Her Mirror”

3rd: Lynn Hansen, “Waxwings at Halloween”

HM: Leigh Grant Cartellino, “November Sky”

 

Elizabeth M. Campbell Poetry Award

1st: Susan Wurtzburg, “Sweet with a Dash of Salt”

2nd: Betty Prisendorf, “Vibrations”

3rd: Lorraine Walker Williams, “Sonnet Diptych”

 

Helen Sutton Booth National Memorial Poetry Award

1st: Gail Speckmann, “Seashell Lullaby”

2nd: Lois Batchelor Howard, “God’s I”

3rd: Louise Kantro, “All Dressed Up”

 

The Anne Marx Sestina Award (one main award)

Mary McAllister, “Displaced Persons”

HM: Janine DeBaise, “Learning Arabic in London”

HM: Sharon Canfield Dorsey, “Let There Be Light”

 

Central New York Branch Flannery O’Connor Short Story Award

1st: Judith McGinn, “Secret Burial”

2nd: Lynda S. Madison, “Yellow Ochre”

3rd: Gail Wilson Kenna, “Good Deeds”

HM: Betty Prisendorf, “The Scent of Magnolias”

 

Delta Branch Grace K. Wofford Essay Award

1st: Gail Wilson Kenna, “The Ukrainian Plate”

2nd: Mary Gardner, “Peaches”

3rd: Ilona Duncan, “The Fashionistas”

 

Memoir Award

1st: Carol Thayer Cox, “My Constant Kitchen”

2nd: Concetta Ciccozzi, “What I Know Now”

3rd: Donna Bruno, “Il Finito Degli Funghi”

HM: Wilma Davis & Diana de Avila, “Soldier, Sister, Savant”

HM: Sara Etgen Baker, “Shoebox Stories”

 

Sandra Seaton Michel Children’s Book or Story Award

1st: Audry Lynch, “Ruben’s Tales from the Amazon Jungle”

2nd: Christina Laurie, “The Lobster’s Night Before Christmas”

3rd: Dorothy Kamm, “Mooseblossom and Monkey”

HM: Lawanda Warthen, “He Looks Like Me”

 

Sandra Seaton Michel Middle School Story Award

1st: Janine DeBaise, “Cattail Summer: The Salazar Sisters and the Baby Beaver”

2nd: Karen Gonzales, “The Mystery of La Llorona and Mister Lloron”

3rd: Karen Hempson, “A Better Life”

 

Fiction Book Award (one main award)

Catherine Witek, “The Journey of Misella Cross”

HM: Elizabeth Horwitt, “Expecting to Fly”

HM: Donna Bruno, “The Unfulfilled Mother”

HM: Debra De Farias, “Standing Tall”

 

Anna Di Bella Poetry Award

1st: Karen McAferty Morris, “Significance”

2nd: Jennifer Hambrick, “Hands”

3rd: Janine DeBaise, “Her Garden”

 

Evelyn B. Wofford Journalism Award

1st: Gail Wilson Kenna, “Separation”

2nd: Mary Jane Ingui, “The Silent Killer”

3rd: Christina Laurie, “Grieving Holiday Style”