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WYOMING WRITERS, INC. WRITING CONTEST
Our 2025 contest has officially wrapped up! Stay tuned for news about our 2026 contest! In the meantime, please congratulate the winners of this year's contest!
Poetry:
Free Verse
1st Place: Beverly Kenik for "Whadya Catch? A Fisherman's Query"
2nd Place: Samariah Vessup for "Rich and Sweet Morning Breakfast"
3rd Place: Beverly Kenik for "Empty Cicada"
Honorable Mentions: Donald Oakley for "Day Labor" and Marsha Mittman for "Pretend"
Traditional Verse
1st Place: Dave Galindo for "In All Things"
2nd Place: Donald Oakley for "The Panama Canal Incident"
3rd Place: Craig Youngblood for "Stone Skimming'
Honorable Mentions: Reatha Thomas Oakley for "Pellicer Creek", Maddison Hodson for "Daughter of the West", and Scotty Bosworth for "Together"
Fiction:
Flash Fiction
1st Place: Rochelle Hampton for "Honest to the Last Drop"
2nd Place: Cordell Parker for "Mercenary"
3rd Place: Reatha Thomas Oakley for "The Rolling Dog"
Honorable Mentions: Terrell Gray for "Hail to the Queen" and Vickie Goodwin for "NOBODY'
Adult Fiction
1st Place: Caroline George for "Twitch"
2nd Place: Reatha Thomas Oakley for "Revival"
3rd Place: Barry Perryman for "Dawn at Sunset"
Honorable Mentions: Sean Barron for "Big Business"
Children/Young Adult
1st Place: Reatha Thomas Oakley for "From the Top Secret, Personal Private Notebooks of Anne Louise Porter, Detective" Chapter 43
2nd Place: Kristina Schmidt for "Atticus Klein and the End of the World"
3rd Place: Reatha Thomas Oakley for "From the Top Secret, Personal Private Notebooks of Anne Louise Porter, Detective" Chapter 44
Honorable Mentions: October Santerelli for "Actual Magic"
Non-Ficton:
1st Place: Janice Jennings for "Dusty Books"
2nd Place: Samantha Strawbridge for "Neverland"
3rd Place: Rebecca Ashcraft for "Bad Friday"
Honorable Mentions: Anne Mason for "The Woman in the Mirror", October Santerelli for "Not a Bad Word", and Margaret Smith for "Not a Glamorous Disaster"