WFOP Contest Results
2024 Results
TRIAD CONTEST
Theme: Ekphrastic Poems from the MAM Narrative Collection
Judged by Lorette C. Luzajic
46 entries
1st Place - Michelle Meyer for “Circus Girl”
2nd Place - Roman Montemorano for “Once, We Fell Through the Edge”
3rd Place - Amy Phimister for “The Grandfather”
Honorable Mention - Kathleen Serley for “Dear Earth,” Jenna Rindo for “Faith Float Foundation,” and Paula Schulz for “Not the machinery of war but the maternal”
Poets’ Choice
Judged by Bruce Bennett
62 entries
1st Place - Gillian Nevers for “Red”
2nd Place - Sheryl Slocum for “Qigong Movement: Polishing the Table”
3rd Place - Amy Phimister for “Loon Fallout”
Honorable Mention - Scott Lowery for “Going Going,” Tori Grant Welhouse for “Every Stranger I Meet Reinvents Me,” F. J. Bergmann for “Spoken Word Lament,” and Jeffrey Johannes for “You Have Made Me a Lover of the Sea”
Kay Saunders Memorial Emerging Poet Contest
Judged by Lois Baer Barr
25 entries
1st Place - Jody Baxter for “I Fell in Love Today, Again”
2nd place - Amy Phimister for “Walking Words”
3rd Place - Erna Kelly for “The Pulse of Autumn”
Honorable Mention - Karen Redfield for “Heat,” Jef Leisgang for “Where the Time Goes,” and Matthew Miller for “Slam for 2024”
CHAPBOOK CONTEST
1st Place
Lee Kathryn Hodge - We Make Shapes from Shapes (Bent Paddle Press)
2nd Place
Scott Lowery - Mutual Life (Finishing Line Press)
3rd Place
Jan Chronister - Land of Cotton, Land of Snow (Poetry Harbor)
MUSE PRIZE
1st Place
Lora Keller - "Transference"
2nd Place
Gail Sosinsky - “Principal Shoes”
3rd Place
Roman Ryan - “Poetry Therapy”
Honorable Mention
Charles Payne - “here lives with Lucille Clifton”
David Southward - “Portrait of No Lady”