FICTION

1st Place: This Picture of Your House – Dustin M. Hoffman
2nd Place: Breath in the Body – Pamela Wright
3rd Place: Who Kills Bugs for the Dalai Lama – Janna Zonder

Honorable Mentions:

Hallelujah By and By – Pamela Wright
New Brunswick Enigma – Maryann Hopper

Finalists

Another Time Could Be Different – Amber Wheeler Bacon
Devil’s Footprint On My Chin – Mary Alice Dixon

POETRY

1st Place: The Peony – Amie Whittemore
2nd Place: Imagine Me – Junious Ward
3rd Place: Find a Friend – AE Hines

Honorable Mentions

If No One Opens Us, We’ll Thirst – Amie Whittemore
The Birds of Lake Norman – Shannon Ward
Her Name Was Theosa – Cynthia Young
The Last Exxon in Oregon – Steve Cushman

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 – Phelps Pond
Spring, Morning – Barry Peters

NONFICTION

1st Place: In Varanasi – Karen McElmurray
2nd Place: When Organ Becomes Metaphor – Tracy R. Lynch
3rd Place: Lucas – Matt Cheek

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

FLASH

1st Place: The Damage – Amber Wheeler Bacon
2nd Place: Lesbian Communion – Kacie Kress
3rd Place: Troubles No More – Michael Banks

Honorable Mentions

General Sorrows – Amber Wheeler Bacon
Going Home – David Dixon

Finalists

Exit Wound – Rebecca Jones
Off – On – Mark Mayer
On – Off – Mark Mayer