Category #1: Traditional Sonnet, Judge: Marilyn Taylor

1st Place: Catherine Hiller, NY – “The Senses”
2nd Place: Michael Stalcup, Bangkok, Thailand – “The Cross and the Lynching Tree”
3rd Place: Bill Lythgoe, Shevington, U. K. – “God Moves in a Mysterious Way”

1st Honorable Mention: Katherine Quevedo, OR – “Kintsugi Master Pieces”
2nd Honorable Mention: Jean L. Kreiling, MA – “What Remains”
3rd Honorable Mention: Jeff Santosuosso, FL – “Greyhounds”

Special Recognition:
1st Special Merit: Barbara Blanks, TX – “Who Needs New England October When”
2nd Special Merit: John Steele, CO – “Sitting Mountain”
3rd Special Merit: Jonathan Pratt, Ontario, Canada – “The Storyteller and the Rose”

Category #2: Modern Sonnet, Judge: Justen Ahren

1st Place: Rebecca Bratten Weiss, OH – “Exile”
2nd Place: Don Hogle, NY – “Figures for an Urn”
3rd Place: L. Rose Reed, CO – “Sonnet for an Octopodal Paramour”

1st Honorable Mention: Mary Elder Jacobsen, VT – “How to Grow a Sonnet”
2nd Honorable Mention: Veronica Brush, CO – “Mark Not Me”
3rd Honorable Mention: Sonnet A. Medrano, TX – “Scene from a Silent Film”

Special Recognition:
1st Special Merit: Maya Levine, CA – “I Can’t Breathe”
2nd Special Merit: Angelica Esquivel, MI – “I Draw an Oil Pastel Portrait of Yayoi Kusama”
3rd Special Merit: Anastasia Jill, FL – “Jesus as the Lesbian I Met at Omegle”