New Voices Categories

 

New Voices: Creative Nonfiction

• First Place: Celine Sorenson “Let's Powwow” (Unaffiliated)

• Second Place: Wayne Gledhill “A Time of Kings” (Wordcraft & Infinite Monkeys)

• Third Place: Edmond Porter “Twists of Fate” (Brigham City Writers and Cache Valley Chapter)

• Honorable Mention: Amy Claire Rudd “The Burden of Belonging” (Unaffiliated)

 

New Voices: General Nonfiction

• First Place: Linda Peterson “Hunt for the Wildermothers” (Typewriters)

 

New Voices: First Chapter Adult

• First Place: Kelly Fae Wilson “Tanked” (Typewriters)

• Second Place: Stella Taryn “Come Back to Me - Chapter One” (Romance Chapter)

• Third Place: Linda Peterson “Mama Bear” (Typewriters)

• Honorable Mention: Erin Poche “House of Yes” (SLC Genre Writers)

 

New Voices: First Chapter YA, Middle Grade, & Children’s 

• First Place: Jackie Gommess “I Am Evil” (Blue Quill)

• Second Place: Rachel Webb “Wolf Walker and the Book that Poofed Green Smoke” (Write On-St George)

• Third Place: Linda Peterson “Canine Z” (Typewriters)

• Honorable Mention: Jackie Gommess “Monster Soul” (Blue Quill)

 

New Voices: General & Literary Fiction 

• First Place: Wendy Bird Womack “Pearl Face” (Write On-St George)

 

New Voices: Genre Fiction

• First Place: Tyler Smith “After The Light” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Celine Sorenson “The Visitors” (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Third Place: Jackie Gommess “Breaking Point” (Blue Quill)

• Honorable Mention: Alberto Squassabia “Have a Heart” (Write On-St George)

 

New Voices: Poetry

• First Place: Katrina McPheters “A Conversation with Ward Canyon” (Typewriters)

• Second Place: Linda Peterson “Happy 3rd Birthday Cayson” (Typewriters)

• Third Place: Robert Read “Tree Rings and Apple Things” (Blue Quill)

• Honorable Mention: Linda Peterson “Green Corduroy” (Typewriters)

 

Established Writers Categories

 

Flash Fiction: Creating Hope

• First Place: Marie Tollstrup “Diego on Holiday” (Write On)

• Second Place: Inna V. Lyon “Petition” (Blue Quill and Infinite Monkeys)

 

Flash Fiction: Author's Choice

• First Place: Tyler Smith “Human, Stormcloud” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Marie Tollstrup “After the Fall” (Unaffiliated)

• Third Place: Jakob Tice “Hail Justice” (Nebo Novelists)

• Honorable Mention: Tom Wahl “The Barker” (Infinite Monkeys and Salt Lake Genre Writers)

 

First Chapter Adult

• First Place: Edmond Porter “Turbulent Waters” (Brigham City Writers and Cache Valley Chapter)

• Second Place: McKel Jensen “A Voice in the Thunder” (Brigham City Writers and Cache Valley Chapter)

• Third Place: C.W. Allen “Dog Save the King” (Utah KidLit)

• Honorable Mention: Sheena Blankenagel “The First She-Stallion” (Write On-St George)

• Honorable Mention: Pat Partridge “Martin is Dying” (Infinite Monkeys)

 

First Chapter YA, Middle Grade & Childrens

• First Place: Michelle Henrie “THISTLE MOUNTAIN WITCH” (Typewriters)

• Second Place: C.W. Allen “No P's Allowed!” (Utah KidLit)

• Third Place: Justin Cole “The Undertaker's Crypt” (Write On-St George)

• Honorable Mention: Michelle Henrie “Misspelled Chocolate” (Typewriters)

 

General and Literary Fiction

• First Place: Don Money “Atalanta” (Nonmember)

• Second Place: Eric John Anderson “The Moth” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Third Place: Becki Clayson “Until Death Do Us Part” (BC Writers)

• Honorable Mention: Pat Partridge “Joltin' Joe's Coffee Crib” (Infinite Monkeys)

 

General Creative Nonfiction

• First Place: Dorothy Solomon “Uneasy Wrtier” (Write On-St George)

• Second Place: Julie Walton “The Woes of Mr. John S Johnson” (Write On-St George)

• Third Place: Sheena Blankenagel “Tough Women” (Write On-St George)

• Honorable Mention: Jacquelyn Dohonoey “The Survival of a Tornado” (Salt City Genre Writers)

 

Horror

• First Place: Steve Capone, Jr. “In My Suit” (Salt City Genre Writers, Utah Screenwriters Guild, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Abby Brinkerhoff “The Gas Station” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Third Place: Johnny Worthen “Road to Ciel” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Honorable Mention: Bryan Young “The Grand Industrial” (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Honorable Mention: Jessica Van Wagoner “Satisfied” (Infinite Monkeys)

 

Mystery & Thriller

• First Place: Joseph Gordon “Danger By Degree” (Write On-St George)

• Second Place: Johnny Worthen “The Third Man” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Third Place: Gina G “Mirror Lake” (Write On-St George, Infinite Monkeys)

 

Nonfiction

• First Place: Pat Partridge “Letter No. 2 to my Adult Son: On Laughter” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: C.W. Allen “Modern Book Bans Echo the Tragedy of Alexandria” (Utah KidLit)

• Third Place: A. M. Shiner “Pocket Full of Quarters” (Chapter 1: Davis County)

• Honorable Mention: Lucy Beale “Splat” (Unaffiliated)

 

Poetry: Freeform & Slam 

• First Place: Marie Tollstrup “Writers' Strike Fallout” (Write On)

• Second Place: Jef Huntsman “Pocket Rocks” (Red Butte Bards)

• Third Place: Sky Simons “Belonging” (Unaffiliated)

• Honorable Mention: Lucy Beale “Him” (Infinite Monkeys)

 

Poetry: Haiku

• First Place: C. H. Lindsay “Fatal Error” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: C. H. Lindsay “Butterfly Rumble” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Third Place: R. Lynn Hanks “Are you a winter?” (Typewriters)

• Honorable Mention: Marie Tollstrup “Triplet babes” (Write On)

 

Poetry: Light Verse 

• First Place: C. H. Lindsay “Goblinsong” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Jef Huntsman “We Can Fix This” (Red Butte Bards)

• Third Place: Jef Huntsman “Edwin Crust” (Red Butte Bards)

• Honorable Mention: C. H. Lindsay “Frankenpuppy” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

 

Poetry: Limerick

• First Place: C. H. Lindsay “Monster Inn Gin” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: C. H. Lindsay “The Vampire Ball” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

 

Poetry: Narrative Poem

• First Place: Jef Huntsman “Enterrar sus Miedos” (Red Butte Bards)

• Second Place: Susan J. Wurtzburg “Canoe Lake Canoeists” (Red Butte Bards)

• Third Place: Talysa Sainz “Ampersand” (Unaffiliated)

• Honorable Mention: Marie Tollstrup “Husks of War” (Write On)

 

Poetry: Rhymed Poetry

• First Place: C. H. Lindsay “The Spun-Glass Ship” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: C. H. Lindsay “Wild Water Witches” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

 

Romance

• First Place: September Roberts “Synthetic Heart” (Blue Quill and Kid Lit)

• Second Place: September Roberts “Demonized Love” (Blue Quill and Kid Lit)

• Third Place: Erin Poche “After Charlie” (SLC Genre Writers)

• Honorable Mention: F. J. Talley “Thank You for Everything” (Non-member)

 

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• First Place: C. H. Lindsay “Crisis Point” (Red Butte Bards, Oquirrh Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: Christopher Jones “The Heat of a Burning Plan” (Good American Fork Writers)

• Third Place: Danielle Harward “Hold Off The Press” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Honorable Mention: Jacquelyn Dohoney “The Long Goodbye” (Salt City Genre Writers)

 

Screenplays

• First Place: Bryan Young “The Gunslinger” (Salt City Genre Writers)

• Second Place: Michael Oborn “Screen Play” (Writerscash435, Logan, Utah)

• Third Place: Eric John Anderson “One's Own” (Infinite Monkeys)

• Honorable Mention: Steve Capone, Jr. “Cure for Creativity” (Utah Screenwriters Guild, Salt City Genre Writers, and Infinite Monkeys)

 

Short Prose Scripts

• First Place: Wendy Bird Womack “RE” (Write On)

• Second Place: Inna V. Lyon “Why are the English Lawns so Perfect?” (Blue Quill and Infinite Monkeys)

 

Spiritual Essays

• First Place: Inna V. Lyon “If I Die Tomorrow” (Blue Quill and Infinite Monkeys)

• Second Place: C.W. Allen “Emily and The Thing” (Utah KidLit)

• Third Place: Robin Lynn Pratt “Hope” (Salt City Scribes)

• Honorable Mention: Tom Wahl “The Space We Share” (Infinite Monkeys and Salt City Genre Writers)