Award Winners...

2023 JOY HARJO POETRY AWARD, $1200: "I Remain Unequal to the Wind" by Dick Westheimer.
JUDGE: Dg Nanouk Optik
Award Winners...

2023 RICK DEMARINIS SHORT STORY AWARD, $1200: 
"Finchs Cow," by Conor Madigan
JUDGE: Manuel Munoz

2023 Barry Lopez Nonfiction 
Award, $1200: “A Story of Silence,
 by Karen Auvinen
JUDGE: CMarie Fuhrman
2nd Prize POETRY, $300: "Reduce, Reuse" by Jeff Stumpo.

2nd Prize SHORT STORY $300:"The Bottom of the Stack" by Michael Culinane

2nd Prize Nonfiction, "Therapeutic Abortion" by Glenda Conway

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Honorable Mention, POETRY: "Many Animals Play Dead" by Jan Karetnick

Honorable Mention, SHORT STORY, "Detour" by Beverly Orth

Honorable Mention: NONFICTION: "On The Black River Estuary" by Anne Bergeron