Fourteenth Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

FIRST PLACE

KWAME DAWES
The Forgettable Life and Other Poems

SECOND PLACE

CATE LYCURGUS
Dependents and Other Poems

THIRD PLACE

JULIA ANNA MORRISON
Force Majeure and Introduction to Floating

FINALISTS

Bruce Bond

Janet Burroway

A Pantoum for Alex

Julia Levine

Closer Now to Blindness in Early Spring

Rose McLarney

Suggesting and Given Such Options

Stelios Mormoris

Eau de Parfum

Kéchi Nne Nomu

Tyler Allen Penny

What You Mistook as Ultimatum

Mal Profeta

Well, It Finally Happened and CPR Class

Gordon Taylor

Marriage Counselor

Laura Wisniewski

Winter Solstice and Other Poems

And Don’t Miss:

The Winter 2025 Story Contest, with $5,000 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: March 31, 2025.