Lit/South Awards 2022
Winners, Finalists & Semi-finalists
NONFICTION
1st Place: In Varanasi – Karen Salyer McElmurray
2nd Place: When Organ Becomes Metaphor – Tracy Rothschild Lynch
3rd Place: Lucas – Matt Cheek
Additional Finalists:
Hattie Mae’s Harvest – Lori Johnson
The Perfect Lamp – Ashley Memory
Ronald Reagan Made Me Do It – Toni Bellon
What I Know About Death So Far – Suzanne Adams
The Special Recipe for Making Babies – Kara Zajac
Semi-finalists:
Ascension – Frances Pearce
Home Alone – Irma Quinn
Killer Boobs – Anne Schmitt
Living Hope – Sue Goldstein
Mast Year – Kristin Sherman
October in Hopkins Cabin – Elizabeth Johnson
Show Me – Heather Adams
Ten Swims in Falls Lake – Virginia Ewing Hudson
FICTION
1st Place: This Picture of Your House – Dustin M. Hoffman
2nd Place: Breath in the Body – Pamela Wright
3rd Place: Who Kills the Bugs for the Dalai Lama? – Janna Zonder
Honorable Mentions:
Hallelujah By and By – Pamela Wright
New Brunswick Enigma – Maryann Hopper
Additional Finalists:
Another Time Could Be Different – Amber Wheeler Bacon
Devil’s Footprint On My Chin – Mary Alice Dixon
Semi-finalists:
Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears – Chris Olson
The Day I Saw Janis – Michael Sadoff
The Great Explorer Alejandro de la Cuesta – Chris Negron
Halltown Blues – Karen Robbins
The Lock Up – Tamela Rich
Mary, Joey and Me – Fola Onifade
Mimosa Tree Lane – Rebecca Jones
Patron Saint of Tetherball – Terri Leonard
People Like Ants – Jacqueline Parker
What Comes Next – Matthew Duffus
FLASH
1st Place: The Damage – Amber Wheeler Bacon
2nd Place: Lesbian Communion – Kacie Faith Kress
3rd Place: Troubles No More – Michael Banks
Honorable Mentions:
General Sorrows – Amber Wheeler Bacon
Going Home – David Dixon
Additional Finalists:
Exit Wound – Rebecca Jones
Off – On – Mark Mayer
On – Off – Mark Mayer
Semi-finalists:
Jury Duty – Tara Deal
Scar – Maureen Sherbondy
Two – Sandra Hardy
Untitled – Denise Boster
What You Don’t See at Roseland – Gregg Cusick
POETRY
1st Place: The Peony – Amie Whittemore
2nd Place: Imagine Me – Junious Ward
3rd Place: Find a Friend – AE Hines
Honorable Mentions:
The Birds of Lake Norman – Shannon C. Ward
Her Name Was Theosa – Cynthia Robinson Young
If No One Opens Us, We’ll Thirst – Amie Whittemore
The Last Exxon in Oregon – Steve Cushman
Additional Finalists:
Birch Tree Summer – Tennessee Hill
In the year of our Lord, 1621, my husband paints me as a nun – Jenny Hubbard
Last Night I Made Love with a Horse – Barbara Campbell
La Chambre d’écoute, 1952 – Richard Allen Taylor
Love as an Object Lesson, Cornfield – Junious Ward
The Opposite of Charleston is Pittsburgh – Yvette R. Murray
Patriots – Wayne Johns
pixie – Sara Beck
The southern hemisphere of longing and regret – Fred Pond
Spring, Morning – Barry Peters
Semi-finalists:
After the Adoption – AE Hines
Bagatelle – Tori Reynolds
Behind the Purple Lilacs – Barbara Campbell
Bertha – Emily W Pease
Camouflage – Lucinda Trew
Cyanide Slinger Swing – Jessica Lee Richardson
Deployed – Tina Barr
I Inherited Hundreds of Candles – Richard Allen Taylor
In the Dark I Light a Little Fire – Annie Woodford
of wangechi mutu’s fantastic journey – Caren Stuart
The Resolution – Shannon C. Ward
Totality – Gretchen Steele Pratt
Two Dreams About the Moon – Kathy Goodkin
