First Place
Yvette Louisell
Mitchellville, IA
Prison Eulogies

Second Place
Joe Ricky Knight
Eddyville, KY
An Escape Artist

Third Place
Zachary Redfearne
Las Animas, CO
The Double Edge

Dawson Prize
Donald Brevard
Lancaster, SC
Prison Walls

Honorable Mentions
Jennifer Rich
Niantic, CT
Dad’s Poem

Jennifer Myers
Alderson, WV
A Particular Sense of Peace

Tammy Traber
Goochland, VA
War

John Yarbrough
Rosharon, TX
The Season

First Place
Michael Rothwell
Ione, CA
Check Out Day

Second Place
Hector Gallegos
Otisville, NY
Species of a Lesser God

Third Place
Eugene A. Dey
Susanville, CA
Frontline Reflections of a Drug War Journalist

Honorable Mentions
Dennis Forrest
Rosharon, TX
Prison and Poetry

Arthur Longworth
Aberdeen, WA
The Hole

Charles Selby
Marquette, MI
The Complicated Truth

First Place
Jodi L. Serino
Lincoln, IL
Metamorphosis

Second Place
Eugene Williams
Kermit, TX
Fester

Third Place
Paresh Patel
Rosharon, TX
A Felon and His Subconscious

Dawson Prize
Matthew E. Raab
Raiford, FL
Datura

Honorable Mentions
Kenneth Milton
Rosharon, TX
Survival Lessons

Santonio D. Murff
Tennessee Colony, TX
The Cobra’s Cross

Steve Curtis
Fairview, NC
Georgia Clay

First Place
Charles P. Norman
Daytona Beach, FL
Fighting the Ninja

Second Place
Spoon Jackson
Represa, CA
Nowhere but Barstow and Prison

Third Place
D. Babb
Corcoran, CA
Escape from A Maximum Security Jail

Dawson Prize
Miriam McKenzie
Bedford Hills, NY
Another Heart Knew My Pain

Honorable Mentions
Frederic Berthoff
Manchester, KY
The Glass House

Robert McKown
Pekin, IL
Bobby’s Innocence

Steven Small
Jessup, GA
The Hunt

First Place
Chris Everly
Tucson, AZ
Hook Island Traveller

Second Place
Michael Hicks
Springfield, SD
Gulfisland Ferry Road

Third Place
William Van Poyck
Waverly, VA
The Man from Far Away

Dawson Prize
Rik Bogen
Pendleton, OR
Time Shifter

Honorable Mentions
Joseph Burgeson
Somers, CT
Habits

Samuel E. Harris
Jr., Petersburg, VA
The Last Dream of Plaquemines

Shon Hopwood
Pekin, IL
The News