2019
Quill Awards
Published Book Contest Winners
Diamond Quill for Best Novel of the Year
On Fly-Fishing the Wind River Range: Essays and What Not to Bring by Chadd VanZanten
Collections
Gold Quill: Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel by Scott Tarbet and John Olsen
Silver Quill: Quoth the Raven by Lyn Worthen
Recommended Read: Wandering Beautiful by Candace J. Thomas
Recommended Read: Wings of Change by Lyn Worthen
Adult Fiction
Gold Quill: One Bronze Knuckle by Kenny Gordon
Silver Quill: Clairvoyant by Mike Nelson
Silver Quill: The Porch by David Armstrong
Recommended Read: Among These Bones by Amanda Luzzader
Recommended Read: Finding Anne de Bourgh by Ronda Gibb Hinrichsen
Youth
Gold Quill: How to Save the Constitution by Paul Skousen
Silver Quill: The Alamist Queen by J.S. Jaeger
Recommended Read: Stonebearer's Betrayal by Jodi Milner
Recommended Read: Kairos by Mechelle Morrison
NonFiction
Gold Quill: Utah Women: Pioneers, Poets & Politicians by Emily Brooksby Wheeler
Silver Quill: The Poorest Man in Zion by David Benson
2019
Quill's Writing Contest
Results
Creative Non-Fiction (New Writer)
1st Place: Some Suggestions You Might Use if You Write About the Blues - Joseph Gordon
2nd Place: All the Marbles - William Anderson
3rd Place: The War on Woad - Matthew Funk
1st Honorable Mention: Conundrum - Richard Timothy
2nd Honorable Mention: The Magical World of Bourbony - Joseph Gordon
3rd Honorable Mention: Laugh Lines - Rebekah Morris
Fiction (New Writer)
1st Place: Closing In - Amanda Hill
2nd Place: Steel Trap - Abby Brinkerhoff
3rd Place: Suddenly - Elizabeth Barnes
1st Honorable Mention: Charlie Jones Wants to Come Home - Ellen Hindman
2nd Honorable Mention: Love, Hughes, and Naked People - Richard Timothy
3rd Honorable Mention: Dreams - Jason Montoya
First Chapter (Fiction or Non-Fiction} - New Writer
1st Place: Annie on the Run - Steven Wight
2nd Place: Highwaypeople - Ben Green
3rd Place: Bobbin and the Magic Thief - Kat Farrow
1st Honorable Mention: Easy Does It - Howard Sachs
2nd Honorable Mention: Embarcadero - Mandy Ballard
3rd Honorable Mention: It’s Spelled Chocolate - Michelle Henrie
Poetry (New Writer)
1st Place: She - Richard Timothy
2nd Place: Kirtland Temple - Thomas Kimball
3rd Place: A Mountainous Contrast - Andee Howard
1st Honorable Mention: And You Knew It - Richard Timothy
2nd Honorable Mention: 9.13.18 - Lorrie Chesnut
3rd Honorable Mention: None (only 5 entries)
Poetry Light Verse (Rhyming, Metrical and/or Humorous)
1st Place: Malevolent March - Lorraine Jeffery
2nd Place: Damn the Unicorns - Jef Huntsman
3rd Place: If Misery Does Love Company - Lorraine Jeffery
1st Honorable Mention: No Time Like the Present - Denis Feehan
2nd Honorable Mention: Woof! - Jef Huntsman
3rd Honorable Mention: A Record Store - Chadd VanZanten
Narrative Poetry (Open or Closed Form)
1st Place: Fifteenth Birthday - Jef Huntsman
2nd Place: Desert Prayers - Lorraine Jeffery
3rd Place: Center of the Siege - Christine McDonough
1st Honorable Mention: Clueless - Sue Leth
2nd Honorable Mention: Letter From an Antarctic Seabird - Chadd VanZanten
3rd Honorable Mention: Kickapoo River Dance - Marie Tollstrup
Prose Poem
1st Place: Missing the War - Marie Tollstrup
2nd Place: Song of Kooser’s Buttons - Lorraine Jeffery
3rd Place: Barefoot Baptism - Marie Tollstrup
1st Honorable Mention: Hand of Fate - Marie Tollstrup
2nd Honorable Mention: The House We Left Behind - Sue Leth
3rd Honorable Mention: Method to Madness - Marie Tollstrup
Word Play
1st Place: Whitewashed - Marie Tollstrup
2nd Place: Madness Turned Sideways - Marie Tollstrup
3rd Place: Ashes to Ashes - Charlene Harmon
1st Honorable Mention: Semper Fi: The Marine Wife - Charlene Harmon
2nd Honorable Mention: Insomniate - Robyn Buttars
3rd Honorable Mention: Poetic DNA - Marie Tollstrup
Children's Story
1st Place: The Magical Village of Kalamulon - Brooke Nelson
2nd Place: Misadventures of the Just Us Chickens - Alexander Copley
3rd Place: A Peach or Two or Ten - Robyn Buttars
1st Honorable Mention: A Home for Mary Fields - Emily Wheeler
2nd Honorable Mention: Farm Families on the Family Farm - Robyn Buttars
3rd Honorable Mention: Akina’s Cape – Laurie Heath
Creative Non-Fiction
1st Place: The Warning Signs: Origins of an Obsessive Fisherman - John Saporito
2nd Place: Out of Control - Emily Wheeler
3rd Place: A signal Triumph of Humanity - David Kennedy
1st Honorable Mention: Going on Ten - Rachael Bush
2nd Honorable Mention: The Creek - Josie Hulme
3rd Honorable Mention: Dear February - Chadd VanZanten
First Chapter (Novel)
1st Place: Wishwood - Emily Wheeler
2nd Place: Coronam Book 1: Of Kings Queens and Colonies - Johnny Worthen
3rd Place: Forever, Ethan - Rachel DeFriez
1st Honorable Mention: Spidereater - Tim Tarbet
2nd Honorable Mention: Pan’s Gate - Frank DeCaria
3rd Honorable Mention: Gross Anatomy - A Cadaver’s Tale - Warren Stucki
First Chapter (Young Adult)
1st Place: Across the River - Brooke Nelson
2nd Place: 7 Seconds - Rachel DeFriez
3rd Place: Running on Fire - Emily Knowles
1st Honorable Mention: The Beast Below - Elizabeth Allen Drysdale
2nd Honorable Mention: Grey Daze - Rachel DeFriez
3rd Honorable Mention: Death Comes Calling - Carol Nicolas
Flash
1st Place: I was Not There, yet I was There - Brenda Birch Gallaher
2nd Place: Ain’t No Water in the Pipes - Denis Feehan
3rd Place: Chasing Tomorrow - Josie Hulme
1st Honorable Mention: Russian Tea for Two - Lorin Grace
2nd Honorable Mention: Drowning - Marianne Fraser
3rd Honorable Mention: Kismet - Warren Stucki
Media Article
1st Place: Why Black Dolls Matter - Karen Kurtz
2nd Place: Still I Desisted: Reflections on Leg Hair - Felicia Rose
3rd Place: Avoiding Deletion - Richard Timothy
1st Honorable Mention: Learning to Write to Theme Through The Last Jedi - Bryan Young
2nd Honorable Mention: Ball Games of Ancient Mesoamerica - Sariah Horowitz
3rd Honorable Mention: Barbara Greenly Toomer (1929-2018): A World Without Barriers - Emily
Horror
1st Place: Hummingbird - Joni Haws
2nd Place: The Burgle - Candie Thomas
3rd Place: Writhing Walls - Jef Huntsman
1st Honorable Mention: Palinopsia - Joni Haws
2nd Honorable Mention: The Lodge - Johnny Worthen
3rd Honorable Mention: Paper Tigers - Amanda Luzzader
Romance
1st Place: Seats G and H - Krystal Gerber
2nd Place: Sin and Sinister - Amey Ziegler
3rd Place: Lobster Bisque - Chris Todd Miller
1st Honorable Mention: Career Goals - Monica Simons
2nd Honorable Mention: Casserole - Amey Ziegler
3rd Honorable Mention: Noted - Josie Hulme
Short Fiction
1st Place: Reserved Seats for Armageddon - Joe Totten
2nd Place: Avici - Anna Marasco
3rd Place: Me in the City of Rocks - Virginia Babcock
1st Honorable Mention: Circus Fire - Wallace Pride
2nd Honorable Mention: The Devil’s Way Out - Caryn Larrinaga
3rd Honorable Mention: The Eye of the Hurricane - Johnny Worthen
Speculative Fiction
1st Place: A Very Fine Stew - Bryan Young
2nd Place: The Tree of the Lost - Krystal Gerber
3rd Place: Hidden Beauty - Michelle Henrie
1st Honorable Mention: Underpass - Sarah Murtagh
2nd Honorable Mention: One Among the Flock - Cassidy Ward
3rd Honorable Mention: The Taste of Bone Tea - C.H. Hung
Spiritual Essay
1st Place: Death and All Its Hopes - Sammie Trinidad
2nd Place: Lifting the Veil - Jenette Purdy
3rd Place: Irene Kendall Never Existed - Robin Glassey
1st Honorable Mention: From Fear to Faith - Valarie Schenk
2nd Honorable Mention: Grandmother’s Lacuna - Mary O. Parker
3rd Honorable Mention: Battered Wings - Tamara Copley