Congratulations to the 2025 Anthology Contest Winners!

The 2025 Contest is now concluded! Below please find a list of all the finalists. Stay tuned as we create the 2025 Anthology, we will be having an event to celebrate its completion and honor the winners!

Student Writing

CATEGORY: NON-FICTION

First Place TIE

Ronan Dutt-Ballerstadt, The Hunt for Chrome Ghosts

Bryar Konruff, Welcome to Softball

Second Place

Harper Barlow, Growing Up

Third Place

Tia Mautner, Summer Days

CATEGORY: FICTION

First Place

Joseph Mason, Decaying Winter

Second Place

August Kirby, The Flower Pot

Third Place

Addison Ulrich, Misty's Meddlesome Magpie Thief

CATEGORY: POETRY

First Place

Trinity Charter, Womanhood

Second Place

Ty Scalabrin, Hope

Third Place

Kyoka Rice, Last Prayer of a Forgotten Child

Adult Writing

CATEGORY: NON-FICTION

First Place

Dori Bash, A Slip in Time

Second Place TIE

Ciel Downing, Accidents Happen
Rodney Dahl, Man I’m Gonna Miss that Cat

Third Place

Janeen Phillips, Comin' Alive at 45

CATEGORY: FICTION

First Place

James DuBois, The Border

Second Place

Darin Bennett, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BIOGRAPHY OF A MORON BY DOUGLAS MORON, JR

Third Place

T. Thomas Hooker, The Night Air

CATEGORY: POETRY

First Place

Breanna Goodman, Repair

Second Place TIE

Pamala Haskin, Love Again
Molly Reardon, Scars Like Starlight

Third Place TIE

Bryonie Arnold, Young Whales Speak Out
Kristin Koptiuch, A Deeper Elegy for Garibaldi is Overdue

CATEGORY: MUSIC LYRICS

First Place

Rachel Pinci, Hold On

Second Place TIE

Jacob Jenkins, Nothing to Show
Doral Vance, Where Is My Love Now

Third Place

Nik Xandir Wolf, Luigi Didn’t Do It