Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 WD Poetry Awards!
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2021 Writer's Digest Poetry Awards! Read an interview with the First-Place winner Julie Novak-McSweeney in the July/August 2022 issue of Writer's Digest.
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1. “The Old Ones” by Julie Novak-McSweeney
2. “Watch Repair” by Eric Meub
3. “Lament” by Martha Fox
4. “Solipsism” by Mercer Warriner
5. “Confession” by Gabrielle C. Burton
6. “An Awakening of Girls” by Katherine Cavicchio
7. “THE BURNING” by Carolina Hamilton
8. “My Father's Grief” by Linda Busby Parker
9. “Equinox” by J. W. Rose
10. “Saigon, 6:30 a.m.” by Cynthia T. Quam
11. “Our Mother Eve Gives Birth 'Adam's Story'” by Kathleen Strafford
12. “The Tattooed Lady” by Kathleen Strafford
13. “Five Stars: A thirteen-Year-Old Reviews Rome” by sheila murphy
14. “First Night” by Patricia J. Boyle
15. “Shallow Roots” by Nicki Ehrlich
16. “In My Time” by John Longbottom
17. “Land of Sky Tinted Waters” by Bridget Lawler
18. “To be an Indian” by Kylee Navarro
19. “Awakening” by Elizabeth McBride
20. “the stain of failure” by Randall McNair
21. “void” by mmiller
22. “Suffragette” by diane valeri
23. “Baseball Glove” by Jo Taylor
24. “The Kite” by Michael Wilson
25. “A Shelter Cat Considers Her Future” by Caroline Norris
Since obtaining her MFA in fiction, Moriah Richard has worked with over 100 authors to help them achieve their publication dreams. As the managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, she spearheads the world-building column Building Better Worlds, a 2023 Eddie & Ozzie Award winner. She also runs the Flash Fiction February Challenge on the WD blog, encouraging writers to pen one microstory a day over the course of the month and share their work with other participants. As a reader, Moriah is most interested in horror, fantasy, and romance, although she will read just about anything with a great hook.
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