Winning Entries of the Rochester Writers’ 2019 Summer Writing Contest
Rochester Writers’ Margo LaGattuta Poetry Award
First Place
My Brother’s Ashes by Ronald Lewis
Second Place
Keep Your Paws Off My Pizza by Roberta Brown
Third Place
People who wade in the Dead Sea float Automatically by Michelle Morouse
Rochester Writers’ Pet Memoir Award
First Place
Full of Grace by Barbara J. Rebbeck
Second Place
Repeat Daily by Maria A. Taormina
Third Place
Darmok by Terry Hojnacki
Rochester Writers’ First Page of a Novel Award
First Place
The Life-Dividing Days by Melissa Olson Cunningham
Second Place
When You Know by Hollin Stafford
Third Place
Blaze Ryker by Sarah John
Honorable Mention
Earth’s Inside by Ellen Kuper Halter
Rochester Writers’ Micro Fiction Award
First Place
Compatible by Sarah John
Second Place
Won by Betsy Hemming
Third Place
Bob by Roberta Brown
Honorable Mention
Tyranny by Bill Hayhow
Rochester Writers’ Rochester Media Best of Show Award
Full of Grace by Barbara J. Rebbeck
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