Thank you to everyone who submitted to Prick of the Spindle's Poetry Open Competition No. 1. Judges Eric Weinstein and Cynthia Reeser announce the final results.

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The Winners.

Grand Prize.
Colette Jonopulos : "In the Midnight Car"

1st Place.
Kat Mandeville : "Rumpelstiltskin"

2nd Place.
Gillian Devereux : "Sleep Cycle"

3rd Place.
Mark DeCarteret : "The Itinerary of Shade"

Honorable Mentions.

Russell Brakefield : "Things that fucked me up this year"

Amber Cook : "Speaking You on Cue Cards"

Mark DeCarteret : "southern exposure"

Gillian Devereux : "Things I Didn't Say to the Sad Girl on My Bus "

Howie Good : "Into the Destructive Element"
                      "Sleeping with the Lights On"

Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom : "Things to Do on a Summer Evening (Harmless Fun)"

Roberta Lawson : "Picture Book"

Ann Walters : "An Ancient Moche Woman Gets Another Fifteen Minutes of Fame"

 

poetry open competition winners.