Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

FIRST PLACE

SADDIQ DZUKOGI
Egress

SECOND PLACE

JULIA KOLCHINSKY
About Suffering and Other Poems

THIRD PLACE

BRIAN TIERNEY
This Close to Dark

FINALISTS

Cristen Aery

The Trade

Adedayo Agarau

Self-Portrait in a Dream and Other Poems

Pam Bernard

Bruce Bond

Brian Gyamfi

The Fall and Strange Tree

Haley Laningham

Olga Mexina

Miguel Martin Perez

Bélizaire, Sponsored Content, and Daisies

Craig Van Rooyen

Sandy Solomon

Shrug

And Don’t Miss:

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

The Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, with $3,300 in prizes.
Entry Deadline: July 18, 2025.