New Voices Categories

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New Voices: Nonfiction

• First Place: Claudia Vincent "The Ladies" (Write On St. George)

• Second Place: Claudia Vincent "Soldiers, Students and Storytellers: A Braided Essay" (Write On St. George)

• Third Place: Rosy Grimaud "Going Home" (Salt City Genre Writers)

 

New Voices: Poetry

• First Place: Ellery Ross "God I Hate Spring" (Unaffiliated)

• Second Place: Dacrai Lorien "Black Hole Sun" (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Third Place: Madeline Doiron "To the Son I Forgot" (Infinite Monkeys)

 

New Voices: Fiction

• First Place: Claudia Vincent "The Peppermint Dance" (Write On St. George)

• Second Place: Andrea J. Garland "Art Lovers" (Salt City Scribes)

• Third Place: Molly Walker "A Stone's Throw" (Just Write)

 

New Voices: First Chapter

• First Place: Randy Eggert "Confessions of a Little Brother" (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Second Place: Cassandra Morin "Angels Unaware" (Wasatch Back Writers and Salt City Genre Writers)

• Third Place: Olga Gromadzka "Cheddar (chapter 1) lay. offs." (Salt City Scribes and Salt City Genre Writers)

 

 

Non-Member Category

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Non-Member

• First Place: Deb DiTomaso "A Shift in the Sand" (Non-member)

• Second Place: Tamara LoSasso "Everything We Used to Have" (Non-member)

• Third Place: Jessica Aure Pratt "Contrapuntal On Liminal Sentience" (Non-member)

 

Established Writers Categories

 

Flash Fiction

• First Place: Ragan Fry "How to Say Goodbye" (Utah Freelance Editors, Utah KidLit, and Oquirrh Writers)

• Second Place: Ragan Fry "The Newlyweds" (Utah Freelance Editors, Utah KidLit, and Oquirrh Writers)

• Third Place: Jef R Huntsman "Down the Drain" (Red Butte Bards)

 

First Chapter Adult

• First Place: J. A. Wood "Of Dragons and Other Weeds" (Unaffiliated)

• Second Place: Amy Claire Tate "ABSENT EVEN IN ITS PRESENCE"

• Third Place: Inna V. Lyon "Beanery Queens" (Blue Quill and Infinite Monkeys)

 

First Chapter YA, Middle Grade & Children's

• First Place: Jennifer Monsen "The Things in the Woods" (Just Write)

• Second Place: Emily Miner "Evan and the Sand Witch" (TypeWriters)

• Third Place: Megan Condie "City of Fallen Walls" (Blue Quill)

 

Literary Fiction

• First Place: Jakob Tice "The Mystery of Chi" (Nebo Novelists)

• Second Place: Aren K. Hatch "Carnival Fish" (Unaffiliated)

• Third Place: Bryan Young "Cinema Verite" (Salt City Genre Writers)

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Narrative Non-Fiction

• First Place: Jakob Tice "Macho Ballet" (Nebo Novelists)

• Second Place: Sharman Ober-Reynolds "Something Worth Fighting For" (Just Write)

• Third Place: Ragan Fry "Single Wide" (Utah Freelance Editors, Utah KidLit, and Oquirrh Writers)

 

Horror

• First Place: Jackie Gommess "Song of the Swamp" (Blue Quill)

• Second Place: Caryn Larrinaga "The Witchin Tree" (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Third Place: Jackie Gommess "Obsession to Beast" (Blue Quill)

 

 Romance & Thriller

• First Place: Johnny Worthen "The Call" (Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Linda Peterson "Hummingbird" (Typewriters Farmington)

• Third Place: Randy Eggert "The Grammatist and the Case of the Missing Trophy" (Salt City Genre Writers)

 

Nonfiction

• First Place: Megan Condie "The Sins of the Child" (Blue Quill)

• Second Place: Inna V. Lyon "Counting Airplanes" (Blue Quill and Infinite Monkeys)

• Third Place: Pat Partridge "Evil" (Infinite Monkeys)

 

Poetry: Freeform & Slam

• First Place: Katrina McPheters "Mother & Daughter" (Typewriters Farmington)

• Second Place: Talysa Sainz "Special Gray" (Utah Freelance Editors)

• Third Place: Michael Shoemaker "The Gift of a Lane" (Blue Quill)

 

Poetry: Haiku

• First Place: Jef R Huntsman "After the Rain" (Red Butte Bards)

• Second Place: Elizabeth Hanna "Community" (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Third Place: Elizabeth Hanna "Career" (Salt City Genre Writers)

 

Poetry: Light Verse

• First Place: C. H. Lindsay "Summertime Snoozes" (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Debra Birdwell Winkler "The Baby and the Butterfly" (Romance)

• Third Place: David Rodeback "That Time When a Friend Gave a Friend One of Those English Lordships He Bought on the Internet" (Good AF Writers, Utah KidLit, and Celebrate Writers)

 

Poetry: Narrative Poem

• First Place: Talysa Sainz "Inferno" (Utah Freelance Editors)

• Second Place: Frank Decaria "Music of the Spheres" (Blue Quill)

• Third Place: Daniel Reichert "Doctor's Notes" (Salt City Scribes)

 

Poetry: Rhymed Poetry

• First Place: Debra Birdwell Winkler "Life Is Full of Simple Things" (Romance)

• Second Place: Greg Goodman "Dark Star"

• Third Place: Brandy Woolley Green "In the Woodwork" (Salt City Genre Writers)

 

Poetry: Sonnet

• First Place: C. H. Lindsay "A Time of Dragons" (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Daniel Reichert "Grandpa's Funeral" (Salt City Scribes)

• Third Place: Rachel Haynes "Bunk Beds" (Salt City Scribes)

 

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• First Place: Bryan Young "Passing in the Night" (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Second Place: Jodi L. Milner "A Gift for Solistara" (Oquirrh Writers)

• Third Place: Inna V. Lyon "Harnessing the Dream" (Blue Quill and Infinite Monkeys)

 

Screenplays & Short Prose Scripts

• First Place: Daniel Reichert "Four Crimes in Lisbon" (Salt City Scribes)

• Second Place: Ellie Jay "Circle of Confusion" (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Third Place: Eugene Hattingh "Escape to Alcatraz" (Unaffiliated)

 

Spiritual Essays

• First Place: Lora Stead "Face with a Look of Triumph Emoji" (Utah KidLit and Write On St George)

• Second Place: Randy Eggert "It's Hard to Believe Hard Enough" (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Third Place: Thomas I. Wahl "Charlie" (Infinite Monkeys)