Winter Contest
Fall Edition Contest Winners – 2022
- First Prize $500 – Rome, by all means Rome by Kevin Broccoli
- Second Prize $250 – A Selection of Poems by Smeep
- Third Prize $100 – Tess by Michail Mulvey
- 3 Honorable Mentions $50 each
– Pastoral and Other Poems by Meggie Royer
– Flicker Sighting and Other Poems by Delaney Gray
– Pilots by Mary Carroll Moore
Thank you to all of the writers and poets who submitted your work. We enjoyed the opportunity to read your creations and wish you success in all of your future writing endeavors.
We’re pleased our contest made the Recommended by Reedsy list as a Best Writing Contest of 2021 & 2022! Please check out their other recommended contests and consider submitting to Reedsy as well!
Judges
Onyx Publications staff provided the initial screening with final selections by our two esteemed guest judges.
Katie McDougall
Guest Judge - Fall 2022
Katie McDougall co-founder and co-director of The Porch, a Nashville literary arts nonprofit whose mission is to inspire, educate, and connect writers of all ages and stages through classes and literary events. The largest literary arts organization of its type in the Southeast, The Porch has become a vibrant thread both in Nashville’s creative culture and in the national literary landscape. Prior to cofounding The Porch, Katie spent fifteen years as a high school English teacher in Colorado, Nashville, and The Bahamas. Katie holds an MFA from Colorado State University, and has published short stories and essays in Chapter16, Barcelona Review, Storyglossia, and others. More on Katie at her website.
A.M. Ringwalt
Guest Judge - Fall 2022
AM Ringwalt is a multimodal writer and musician. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame, where she received the 2019 Sparks Prize. The Wheel, her hybrid memoir, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. What Floods, her book-length poem, is forthcoming from Inside the Castle. As the artist Anne Malin, she has performed at the Watermill Center, the New Yorker Festival, the YoungArts Foundation and Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her fourth album, Summer Angel, is out now via Dear Life Records.
