List of 2022 TMW Contest Winners

LIST OF 2022 TMW CONTEST WINNERS

Each year after the deadline for the contest submission has passed, contest entries are first screened blindly by a panel of judges, and then ten to twelve finalist pieces in each category are sent to our final judges for blind selection of winners. No judge at any step of this process is aware of the names of the writers who have submitted individual pieces. Writers may submit entries in all categories, and for an additional fee may submit a second entry, all of which means that writers may place or win up to two awards in multiple categories. Any writer who wins first place in a category is ineligible to enter that category the following year.

ADULT CATEGORIES:

Patricia Boatner Fiction Award:

Honorable Mention, Amara Bunten, “Wasteful”

Honorable Mention, Daniel Ray, “The End Man”

Honorable Mention, Carole Stice, “Mistaken”

3^rd place, Wilmoth Foreman, “Something Akin to Friendship”

2^nd place, Daniel Reiss, “What’s of the Soul is Not Forgotten”

1^st place, Larry D. Thacker, “Worn Out”

 

Science Fiction/Fantasy Award:

Honorable Mention, Vicki J. Cypcar, “An Angel Named Atticus”

Honorable Mention, Travetta Johnson, “Cosmic Jam”

3^rd place, Daniel Leonard, “Catching Up”

2^nd place, Daniel Leonard, “Ice Springs Phoenix”

1^st place, Daniel Ray, “Skyfort”

 

Joy Margrave Nonfiction Award:

Honorable Mention, Vicki J. Cypcar, “She Deserved Better”

Honorable Mention, Deborah Scaperoth, “Captured by a Cult”

3^rd place, David Hammond, “The Cotton Sack”

2^nd place, Natalie Kimbell, “An Attention Deficit Lollapalooza”

1^st place, Gail Tyson, “Homing”

 

Poetry Award:

HM: Larry D. Thacker, “Reunion”

HM: Ralph Monday, “Let Them Go to the Waters”

3^rd place, Larry D. Thacker, “How it All Comes to an End in the End”

2^nd place, DeAnna Stephens, “Summer Repair”

1^st place, KB Ballentine, “Heart, Full of Seed”

 

Children’s Literature Award:

3^rd place, Randi Lynn Mrvos, “To Be in a Book”

2^nd place, Dee Lynk, “Chapter One—Yes—Yes—YES!”

1^st place, Chrissie Anderson Peters, “Red Bird Rules”

 

Sue Ellen Hudson winner: Daniel Ray, “Skyfort”