First Prize
Jorge Antonio Renaud
Tennessee Colony, TX
Prison Moon

Second Prize
Joe R. Knight
Eddyville, KY
Observations From a Penitentiary Window

Third Prize
Malcolm Alexander King
Safford, AZ
Sisyphus

Dawson Prize
Lawrene Harris
Dayton, TX
A Song of Death

Honorable Mentions
Chris Early
Henning, TN
Sheryl

Anthony La Fontant
Napanoch, NY
Cadaver

Diane Hamill Metzger
New Castle, DE
Panopticon

Jonaki Ray
Plymouth, MI
Father

First Prize
Christopher Best
Livingston, TX
Live!—from Texas Death Row!

Second Prize
Charles Huckelbury
Concord, NH
Made in the U.S.A.

Third Prize
William Bryan Sorens
Livingston, TX
Free Speech Wars

Dawson Prize
Robert Talib Douglas
Graterford, PA
Prisoners & the Wizard of Oz

Honorable Mentions
Alden Redfield
Moberly, MO
Life on the Flags

Gene Hathorn
Livingston, TX
Countdown in Fear

Daniel H. Harris
Huntsville, TX
Prison Sexuality

Charles Norman
Daytona Beach, FL
Fifty Percent

First Prize
Brendan Cochrane
Otisville, NY
Joseph Assadourian
Fishkill, NY
Heaven

Second Prize
Santonio Murff
Tennessee Colony, TX
The Cobra’s Cross

Third Prize
Tyrone Wyche
Big Stone Gap, VA
Mrs. B’s Bracelets

Dawson Prize
Walter Harmon
Lebanon, OH
Reflections in Resonance

Honorable Mentions
Michael A. Cooke
Crescent City, CA
Technical Foul

Hal Cobb
LaGrange, KY
The Spittin’ Image

Arnold Thorpe
Staten Island, NY
Dialogue

First Prize
David Lightner (Franklin D. Antill)
Orofino, ID
Journal of a Prisoner

Second Prize
Carl Berk
Dannemora, NY
Letter to a Daughter

Third Prize
Ralph Wilmas
Bowling Green, MO
Labyrinth (excerpt)

Dawson Prize
Tracy Atkins
Bedford Hills, NY
Horse the Caterpillar

Honorable Mentions
John “Divine G” Whitfield
Ossining, NY
The Whitfield Files

Cocomo Rock
Cheshire, CT
Brother Oak

Brigitte Pauli
Memphis TN
Buddhism in Prison

First Prize
Terrance D. Robinson
Napanoch, NY
Mascara

Second Prize
Mark Smith
Gowanda, NY
Covenants

Third Prize
Emilio Alvarado
Ione, CA
The Horizon Rises

Honorable Mentions
Leah Torres
Chowchilla, CA
Suffer the Little Children

Antonio C. Baca
Boise, ID
Life Under the Knife

Steve Blanchard
Rosharon, TX
Huntsville Homecoming