2015 Writer's Digest Poetry Awards Winners

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the winners of the 2015 Poetry Awards, where writers submit their very best poetry of less than 32 lines. Please join us in congratulating our winners!

For full coverage of the 2015 WD Poetry Awards, check out the July/August 2016 issue of Writer's Digest. To read the top ten poems, click here.

“Inheritance” by Ruth Elizabeth Morris
“In Praise of Retiring in Pacific Standard Time” by Carolyn Martin
“Hooked” by Judith Marks-White
“PROTO MASS” by Elisabeth Avery
“After Parking at Starbucks” by Jed Myers
“Leaking You Like Resin” by Lea Tsahakis
“DREAMY DRAW” by Chuck Collins
“An Addendum to the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Baseball Edition” by Michael Berecz
“August” by Margaret Sharp
“Childhood—1952” by Judith Marks-White
“Niobe’s Prayer” by Carla Conley
“The Owlet” by Carolyn Smith
“Wile E. Coyote—In the Dust” by Burky Achilles
“Japan: Three Cities” by Nancy A. Jackson
“Lottery” by Elaine Dekin
“To Bob, Our Night�� by Margaret Bobolek King
“A Sunray Lands in Syria” by Allen Lee Ireland
“Dad” by Christina Alba
“Anniversary” by Judy Anderson
“Asylum” by Jed Myers
“Birthday” by Blake N. Campbell
“Hunting Flies” by Michael H. Levin
“Long-term Memory” by Margaret Hawke
“Mother of God” by Karen C. Stone
“After All” by Maria Baroncini