Announced March 21, 2026 at the annual workshop.
Fiction for Adults (Judge: Priscilla Bettis)
- 1st place — Lily Lemmons, Clementine
- 2nd place — Linda Gordon, The Piano
- 3rd place — Dee Dee Chumley, Escaping the Busybodies
- Honorable Mention — Seah Haynes, What Lies Beyond
Memoir/Nostalgia (Judge: Shann Arriaga)
- 1st place — Hallie Wright, The Tooth Fairy Always Knows
- 2nd place — Chuck Webber, The Night We Went English
- 3rd place — Chuck Webber, Skipping Across the Reservoir
Flash Fiction (Judge: Ginny Greene)
- 1st place — Charles Anderson, KLAP Radio 101
- 2nd place — Hallie Wright, Refusing the Roller Coaster
- 3rd place — Nancy Forbis-Stokes, The Barrel Race
- Honorable Mention — Nick Sweet, Dogmatic Dilemma
Rhymed Poetry (Judge: Ginny Greene)
- 1st place — Nick Sweet, The Rustic Statesman
- 2nd place — Chuck Webber, Tea Time
- 3rd place — Chuck Webber, Jack’s Haunts
- Honorable Mention — Kathryn Tolar, Sehnsucht
- Honorable Mention — Rosalene Liu, Pomegranate Juice
Unrhymed Poetry (Judge: Karen Kosonen)
- 1st place — Kelly Bristow, Thirty Miles East
- 2nd place — Kelly Bristow, Roadkill
- 3rd place — Kathryn Tolar, The Forgotten Season
- Honorable Mention — Dee Dee Chumley, Dance Class
- Honorable Mention — Chuck Webber, God as a Cleaning Woman
Science Fiction (Judge: Karen Kosonen)
- 1st place — Charles Anderson, The Lost Colony of Roanoke
- 2nd place — Charles Anderson, Space Farmer
- 3rd place — Charles Anderson, Third Star on the Left
(No other genres had enough entries to be judged.)
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