Marion Doyle Poetry Award

  • 1st: Kari Ann Ebert – “Vestigial Home”
  • 2nd: Kari Ann Ebert – “Maadulampazham (In Which Her Daughter Hears the Diagnosis)”
  • 3rd: Nancy Dafoe – “For a Day I Wanted to Be Amy Tan”
  • HM: Janine DeBaise – “I dreamed sailboats”
  • HM: Stacey Murphy – “It hurts to become”
  • HM: Mary McAllister – “A Cold So Quiet”
  • HM: Dorothy Kamm – “If Only I Could”

Marjorie Davies Roller Nonfiction Award

  • 1st: Railey Jane Savage – “If It Walks Like a Drake, and Squawks Like a Drake”
  • 2nd: Thomasina Yuille – “Getting Under My Skin: Reckoning with My White Confederate Ancestor”
  • 3rd: Wilma Davidson – “Rites of Passage”
  • HM: Janine DeBaise – “Dust You Are”
  • HM: Tonya McQuade – “A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrews County, Missouri, 1862-1865”

Normal E. and Marjorie J. Roller Award

  • 1st: Kirsten Hines – “White-bellied Herons: Endangered and lonely, but not alone”
  • 2nd: Gail Kenna – “A California Cabin Links Past and Future”
  • 3rd: Janine DeBaise – “Of the Fittest”

Anita Marie Boggs Memorial Poetry Award

  • 1st: Kathie Isaac-Luke – “Fabric”
  • 2nd: Pat Underwood – “Ambivalence”
  • 3rd: Nancy Dafoe – “Liminal in Early Winter”
  • HM: Susan Livingston – “Forest Bathing”
  • HM: Kathie Isaac-Luke – “Beholden”
  • HM: Janine DeBaise – “Blue Shadows”

Della Crowder Miller Poetry Award (Petrarchan sonnets)

  • 1st: Cynthia Pederson – “The Poet at Age Nine”
  • 2nd: Cynthia Pederson – “Her Silken Seams and Wedding Dreams”
  • 3rd: Nancy Dafoe – “A Flight of Swallows Flew Through Me”

Della Crowder Miller Poetry Award (free verse)

  • 1st: Pat Underwood – “Bull”
  • 2nd: Janine DeBaise – “Song”
  • 3rd: Andrea Walker – “Messages”
  • HM: Claire Massey – “Seeking the Empathic Ghost Writer”
  • HM: Kathie Isaac-Luke – “The Old Library”

Catherine Cushman Leach Poetry Award

  • 1st: Kari Ann Ebert – “A [Collective] Voice Breathes Forth the Dawn”
  • 2nd: Kathie Isaac-Luke – “Hidden Spaces”
  • 3rd: Marion Mike – “Holding Hands”
  • HM: Pat Underwood – “Nesting”
  • HM: Kari Ann Ebert – “Solstice Eve Haibun, 1989”

Elizabeth M. Campbell Poetry Award

  • 1st: Lynn M. Hansen – “Flash Mob”
  • 2nd: Cynthia Pederson – “The Gnarled Rose (or Japanese Beetle Grief)”
  • 3rd: Stacey Murphy – “Mending”
  • HM: Carolyn Tokson – “The Owl Calls at Morning Light”

Helen Sutton Booth National Memorial Poetry Award

  • 1st: Nancy Dafoe – “Elegy for My Son”
  • 2nd: Mary McAllister – “Enlarged Heart”
  • 3rd: Cynthia Pederson – “Song Pirate’s Serenade”
  • HM: Louise Kantro – “Journey To and From His Funeral”
  • HM: Cynthia Pederson – “Tired Tractor”

The Anne Marx Sestina Award

  • 1st Nancy Dafoe – “Operation Midway Blitz Atrocity”

Central New York Branch Judith McGinn Short Story Award

  • 1st: Gail Kenna – “Bittersweet (Dulce y Amargo a La Vez)”
  • 2nd: Mary McAllister – “Over Easy”
  • 3rd: Rosemary Mild – “Two Overheated Engines”
  • HM: Carol White – “A Fork in the Road”
  • HM: Mary Ann Carr – “The Collection”

Delta Branch Grace K. Wofford Essay Award

  • 1st: Janine DeBaise – “Excess”
  • 2nd: Pat Underwood – “Iowa, the Beautiful Land”
  • 3rd: Mary Gardner – “Surviving Successfully Through Pandemics & Other Global Disasters”

Sandra Seaton Michel Children’s Book or Story Award

  • 1st: Mary Ann Carr – “A Mystery at the North Pole”
  • 2nd: Darby Hobbs – “The Tail of Grace & Kristoff”
  • 3rd: Maria Victoria Castillo – “Let’s Count with Maria & Contemos con Maria”

Sandra Seaton Michel Middle School Story Award

  • 1st: Susan Bulanda – “Lost”
  • 2nd: JoJo Harder – “Queen Bess: Born to Fly”

Pensacola Branch Ann T. Davis Memorial Ekphrastic Award

  • 1st: Andrea Walker – “A Mary Cassatt Afternoon with Paul Newman”
  • 2nd: Gail Kenna – “Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, by John Singer Sargent 1885”
  • 3rd: Deborah Butler – “On the Cliff, 1910 and Sixty Years Later”

Evelyn B. Wofford Journalism Award

  • 1st: Nancy Haskett – “Social Myths in Contemporary America”
  • 2nd: Gail Kenna – “That’s Me in the Trash”
  • 3rd: Nancy Dafoe – “Sacrifice at the Gates of Paradise: Creation of Ghiberti’s Golden Door”

Fiction Book Award

  • 1st: Catherine C. Wu – “The Moon Goddess’s Smile”

Memoir Award

  • 1st: Patricia Daly-Lipe – “All Alone”
  • 2nd: Carol Egan – “Call Me Gypsy”
  • 3rd: Maria Victoria Castillo – “Field Work Through the Eyes of a Child”
  • HM: Lynn M. Hansen – “From the Boo Dah House to Melinda Lane: My Life in Thirty-Two Houses”
  • HM: Pat Underwood – “Who I Am”

Central New York Branch Sheila M. Byrnes Nonfiction Award

  • 1st: Gail Kenna – “A Humbled and Ink-Stained PEN Woman”
  • 2nd: Susan Wight – “Castleman”
  • 3rd: Mary Ann Carr – “The December Stakeout”
  • HM: Janine DeBaise – “27 Minutes”
  • HM: Carol White – “The Stone”

Central New York Branch Sally Roesch Wagner Creative Nonfiction Award

  • 1st: Janine DeBaise – “A Few Words in Arabic”
  • 2nd: Gail Kenna – “A Feminist’s Reflection on a Sexual Assault”
  • 3rd: Nancy Dafoe – “Raining Poets”