And the winners of the Shelby Stephenson Literary Awards are:

Poetry: 1st Place: Pamlico Sound, Sherry Siddall

Poetry Honorable Mentions:

Traveling Light, Elizabeth Solazzo

Solar Eclipse, Sherry Siddall

The Periodic Cicadas, Sherry Siddall

Shape Shifter, Jackie Dove Miller

Rainy Morning Song, Allison Hendrix

Prose 1st Place: Half Eaten Pie, Joyce Allen

Prose Honorable Mentions:

Ghosts, Christopher Weston

Trade Offs,  Sarah Maury Swan

Missing , Eileen Vorbach Collins  

Charm, Harriet Clifford

Shined and her 59 Buick, Veronica Krug

hotography 1st Place: Ned, Julia Fisher

Photography Honorable Mentions:

Sunflower, Pamela Whipple

First Light, Donna Campbell Smith