Congratulations to all the winners and to those who entered our annual writing contest! We are grateful to our judges, who served in volunteer capacity during a pandemic time without any financial renumeration. May 2021 bring us closer as a community, and may we begin by celebrating some Alabama winners!

2020 AWC Writing Contest Winners

1st Chapter of a Novel

First Prize: “Millie’s Razor” by Dave Hammond

Second Prize: “O’Banion’s Bluff” by Whitney Adrienne Snow

Third Prize: “A Small Town Guide to Re-Inventing Yourself” by Christopher Jay Jones

Flash Fiction

First Prize: “A View from the Precipice"” by Dave Hammond

Second Prize: “The Most Precious Item” by Vic Kerry

Third Prize: “Reruns” by Larry Wilson

Memoir

First Prize: “A Rusty Piece of Tin” by Daniel Leonard

Second Prize: “The Fall of a Septuagenarian Cyclist” by Jeff Grill

Formal Poetry

First Prize: “How Love Wins” by Jeanette Willert

Second Prize: “Livin’ with Peace” by Jeral Williams

Third Prize: “What Are You Doing Here (Gigan)” by Leonard Temme

Short Story

First Prize: “Moon River” by Doug Gray

Second Prize: “Collect” by Christopher Jay Jones

Third Prize: “The Missing Piece” by Lauren Foreggar

Free Form Poetry

First Prize: “Isabel Dances the Lace” by Gurupert Khalsa

Second Prize: “Transposing Ann Carson” by Catherine Hall Kiser

Third Prize: “Nursery Dreams” by Kathleen Duthu