(The year shown is when the winners were announced. The contest opens in the prior year.)
2024
What Will Happen to It All by Bruce Carpenter, Winchester, VA
Free For the Taking by Sara Trunzo, Belfast, ME
Embers by John Bolten, Catonsville, MD
2023
Moondance by Carley Arrowood, Newton, NC
As Is by John Lilly, Elkins, WV
Down the Hill by Liam Purcell, Deep Gap, NC
2022
Chestnut Mountain by John Cloyd Miller, Fairview, NC
Big Table by Timothy Scott, St. Simons Island, GA
Near Miss by Martha Trachtenberg, Huntington Station, NY
2021
Richmond by John Lowell, Livingston, MT
If They Could Put That in a Bottle by Dan Whitener, Matawan, NJ
If I’d Only Tried by Bill McKay, Laramie, WY
2020
God Leaves the Light On by David Morris, Gaithersburg, MD
Dancing in the Rain by Carley Arrowood, Union Mills, NC
Give Me Grace by Jane Fallon, Dunedin, FL
2019
Elakala by Lee Leanders, Auburn, AL
Gonna Love Anyway by Louisa Branscomb, White, GA and Jennifer Zapolnik, Grand Rapids, MI
Ballad of Zona Abston by Anya Hinkle, Asheville, NC
2018
Ashes to Ashes by William McKay, Laramie, WY
Never Green by Corrina Rose Logston Stephens, Whites Creek, TN
In This Dirt by Jeff McClellan, Kingsport, TN
2017
All the Old Men Are Gone – Pam Gadd, Joelton, TN
Friend and a Friend – Korby Lenker and Molly Tuttle, Nashville, TN
Looking for Sunshine – Gina Clowes, Winchester, VA
