Enter the Current Contest
Winning Entries of the Rochester Writers’ 2017 Summer Writing Contest
Rochester Writers’ Margo LaGattuta Poetry Award
First Place
East of India by Shibani Putatunda
Second Place
Early Beach by Paul Snyder
Third Place
A Family in Haiku, I by K. Michelle Moran
Honorable Mention
Ode to Journeying by Ksenia Rychtycka
Rochester Writers’ Milestone Memoir Award
First Place
A Horrible Normal by Rebecca Shurtleff
Second Place
You Never Know How a Day’s going to End by Wendy Bomers
Third Place
Goodbye Beach by Betsy Hemming
Honorable Mention
Start Again At Sixty by Christian Belz
Rochester Writers’ First Page of a Novel Award
First Place
The Operation by Paul Snyder
Second Place
Nightfall in Neuilly by William Garvey
Third Place
The Journey Missions: Family Binds by Holly Ash
Honorable Mention
Lady Killer by B. David Warner
Rochester Writers’ Micro Fiction Award
First Place
Survival by Angela Amman
Second Place
Not a Bad Day by Alexandra Bancos
Third Place
The Child by Paul Snyder
Honorable Mention
Last Birthday by Pamela Kelso
Rochester Writers’ Rochester Media Best of Show Award
East of India by Shibani Putatunda
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