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2023 Vinnie Ream Medal Winners
Art
- Gail Speckmann | Minnesota Branch, “Rising” (watercolor)
Other finalists:
- Gina Bae | Santa Clara Branch, “Bloom” (oil)
- Susan Convery | Fort Lauderdale Branch, “Leap Year” (watercolor)
- Sharron Demarest | Fort Lauderdale Branch, “Feathers” (photography)
- Bonnie J. Smith | Santa Clara Branch, “Waterspout” (mixed media textile)
- Janice Newman | Sarasota Branch, “Intimacy” (oil)
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Letters
- Jan Eberle Schaberg | Member-at-large, Florida; “Calm Waters” (memoir)
Honorable mention:
- Andrea Jones Walker
- Kari Ann Ebert
- Susan Livingston
- Patricia Black-Gould
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2021 Vinnie Ream Medal Winners
Art
- Sue Lynn Cotton | Sarasota Branch, “Feelin’ His Music”
Other finalists:
- Veronica Lennon | “Floral Illumination”
- Chella Gonsalves | “What to Do”
- Linda Campbell Arena | “Deal Island II”
- Jacinta Hart Kehoe | “Connection”
- Karen Kuhrt | “Spring”
- Mary Lou Griffin | “Afternoon Tea with Grandmother”
- Brenda Smith | “Celebration Earrings”
- Betsy Greer | “Summer Fun”
- Beatrice Athanas | “I Cry For Orlando”
- Stephanie Pyren Ford | “Repose”
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Letters
- Georgia A. Popoff | Central New York Branch, “Living with Haints”
Other finalists:
- Jennifer Hambrick | “Joyride: A Haibun Road Trip”(poetry book excerpt, second place)
- Karen McAferty Morris | “Significance” (poetry chapbook, third place)
- Rosemary Mild | “Tulips on Trial” (essay)
- Nancy Haskett | “Memories of 3602 Petaluma Avenue” (narrative poetry)
- Mary Gardner | “Downsizing: Small Renderings, Broad Canvas” (poetry book)
- Mary C. Spittler | “Brush Strokes” (historical nonfiction)
Music
Dawna Hammers | Member-at-Large, “Deep Inside”
Other finalists:
- Mary Fineman | “Will There Be No End To This Sadness” (second place)
- Elaine Erickson | “The Red Canoe” (third place)
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2019 Vinnie Ream Medal Winners
Art
Jamie Tate | Delta Branch (MS), “Waiting on the River,” acrylic on canvas
Letters
Janine DeBaise | Central New York Branch, “The Space Between”
Music
Candace Long | Atlanta Branch, “Tsunami”
2017 Vinnie Ream Medal Winners
Letters
Medal winner (fiction)
Concetta Ciccozzi Doucette
Title: “Inside a Keyhole Looking Out!”
Second Place (poetry)
Karen McAferty Morris
Title: “Elemental”
Third Place (memoir)
Cia Chester McKoy
Title: “Poking Chocolates & Other Rude Habits (en route to the Sweet Life)”
Honorable Mentions for Fiction
Sara Baker (novel)
Title: “Secrets at Dillehay Crossing”
JoAnn Hinrichs — pen name Jody Glittenberg (historical fiction)
Title: The Promise Seed: Saving Mother Earth
Brenda Layman (short story)
Title: Kentucky “Wonder Beans”
Margaret Lukas (fiction)
Title: “River People”
Catherine A. Witek (historical novel)
Title: “The Trial of Misella Cross”
Honorable Mentions for Nonfiction
Diane Chambers (memoir)
Title: “Fragile Minds: Encountering Mental Illness, An Advocate’s Story”
Karen Foresti Hempson (non-fiction)
Title: “The Immigrant Healer, The Story of Giovannina Ruggiero Foresti”
Judy Madsen Johnson (non-fiction)
Title: “A Memoir, The Journey Home”
Kathleen Langan (memoir)
Title: “Checking My Rear View Mirror: 90 Plus Years of Memories
Connie Spittler (non-fiction)
Title: “Rock of Ages”
Honorable Mentions for Poetry
Barbara Ehrentreu
Title: “You’ll Probably Forget Me: Living With and Without Hal – Poems of Loss”
Alice G. Eby Hall
Title: “Poetic Prophetic Biographies”
Linda Mohr
Title: “The Voice Within”
JoAnna O’Keefe
Title: “A Deeper Place”
Pat Underwood
Title: “Wild Flowers”
Art
Medal winner (sculptures)
Shirley Wyrick
Title: “Free Flow”
Second Place
Nancy Nesvik
Title: “Sew Many Possibilities”
Third Place
Barbara Paul Selby
Title: “Woman”
Works of Distinction
Francesca Tabor-Miolla (mixed media)
Title: “Obsessive Compulsion”
Melissa Woodburn (fine art)
Title: “Before Words Form”
Music
Medal winner
Mary K. (Mimi) Jackson
Title: “Sympathy”
Second Place
Elaine Erickson
Title: “New Horizons for string orchestra and piano”
Third Place
Mary K. (Mimi) Jackson
Title: “The Slave’s Complaint”
Multimedia
Medal winner
Dorothy Kamm
Title: “Birds of Florida”
Second Place
Sandy Huff
Title: “Biltmore”
2015 Vinnie Ream Competition Award Winners
Art Competition
1st Place: Mt. McKinley, by Judy Bingman
2nd Place: Free Ranging, by Anna Bellenger
3rd Place: Whispers of Grace, by Jamie Tate
Works of Merit: Honorable Mention:
Ethereal Spirits, by Susanne Schuenke St. Francis, by Pat Discas
Symbolica, by Carolina Mueller Ammonite Wave, by Judith Gentile
Brenna – the Selkie, by Pat Discas Aurora Borealis, by Judy Bingman
Letters Competition
1st Place: “Dorothy Scott: WASP Pilot” (Non-Fiction [Biography]) Sarah Byrn Rickman
2nd Place: “Corpus Homini: A Poem for Single Flesh” (Poetry) Sofia M. Starnes
3rd Place: “Angel Wings and Totems” (Fiction) Sandy Huff
Honorable Mention:
“The Tenement” (Fiction) Barbara Bixon
“Springing Grandpa” (Fiction) Susan Livingston
“A Medal for Dr. Mary” (Non-Fiction) Polly Craig
“My Lebanese Father and Mother’s Immigration” (Non-Fiction) Sophia Baldwin
“Doubt: The Many Faces of Hope” (Poetry) Linda Newman Woito
“Body Language” (Poetry) Mary Jedlicka Humston
Music Competition
1st Place: “Trinity Alps” Nancy Duessen
2nd Place: “Waters of Transformation” Sheila Firestone
3rd Place: “Vinnie Ream for Solo Piano” Grace Reid
Multi-Discipline Competition
1st Place: Children’s Book, Lonely Lola Lady Bug Mary Jo Beswick
2nd Place: “New Travels with a Blue Vase” Mary Ann Miller
3rd Place: “Hawaiian Time” Cornelia DeDona
Honorable Mention:
“Places Spaces and Stirrings from the Heart” Susan Buzzi
“The auDeo Story: A Composer’s Journey” Candace Long