The Tallahassee Writers Association (TWA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Seven Hills Literary & Penumbra Poetry Contests. Red denotes TWA members. Thank you to everyone who submitted their work, and congratulations to all our winners!
All the winners will be published in the 2021 Seven Hills Review, which we are working hard to complete in time for an early 2021 release. First place winners in each category will receive a complimentary copy of the review when it’s published. Additionally, checks are going out next week to all the winners!
Ten-Minute Plays (Judge, Paul Donnelly, Tallahassee, FL)
- 1st – COVID 29 – Tom Cavanaugh, Edison, NJ
- 2nd – First Folio – Kenneth Robbins, Ruston, LA
- 3rd – Roughing It – Judy Klass, Nashville, TN
Flash Fiction (Judge, Anna Yeatts, Pinehurst, NC)
- 1st – Greatest of All Time – Richard Key, Dothan, AL
- 2nd – The Path Unfolding – Lori Goshert, Tallahassee, FL
- 3rd – Sticks and Stones – Imago Mana, Pahoa, HI
Short Stories (Judge, Sheree Renee Thomas, Memphis, TN)
- 1st – The Summer Game – Christine Venzon, Peoria, IL
- 2nd – Recovery – Yvonne Hazelton, Paris, France
- 3rd – White Swan – Marina Brown, Tallahassee, FL
Adult Novel Excerpts (Judge, Ginger Phillips, Clearwater, FL)
- 1st – Sisters in Exile – Betty Cotter, Shannock, RI
- 2nd – Wildwind – Lauren Strach, Yachats, OR
- 3rd – White Cloud Free – Peter Johnson, Naples, FL
Young Adult Novel Excerpts (Judge, Joyce Sweeney, Coral Springs, FL)
- 1st – Dark White – Ruth Andrews, Cassopolis, MI
- 2nd – Coronation – Laura Thompson, Nashville, TN
- 3rd – Wild and Precious Life – Kathleen Laufenberg, Tallahassee, FL
Nonfiction/Creative Nonfiction (Judge, Cheryl Jennings, Tallahassee, FL)
- 1st – Deeper than African Soil – Faith Eidse, Tallahassee, FL
- 2nd – Blue is Truth – Robin Storey Dunn, Austin, TX
- 3rd – A Daughter in Pieces – Nancy Hill, Presto, PA
Poetry (Judge, Benjamin Dugger, Elizabethton, TN)
- 1st – Lillian – Sharon Yencharis, Pacific Grove, CA
- 2nd – The Gardener – Claire Scott, Oakland, CA
- 3rd – Shorelines – Robert Gibbs, Tallahassee, FL
Haiku (Judge, Katya Sabaroff Taylor, Tallahassee, FL)
- 1st – Yesterday – M. Shayne Bell, Rexburg, ID
- 2nd (Tie) – Memories of Elementary School – Renee Szostek, Scotts, MI
- 2nd (Tie) – Day on the Bay – M.R. Street, Tallahassee, FL