Room is excited to reveal the winners of our annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest! First prize goes to Menaka Raman-Wilms for fiction, Kelly Cooper for poetry, and Alison Frost for creative non-fiction. Winners will be published in issue 36.2, on newsstands summer 2013.
Congratulations to the winners of Room’s 2012 Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest!
Our thanks to everyone who submitted their work, and to our wonderful judges: Cathleen With (fiction), Miranda Pearson (poetry), and Kathy Page (creative non-fiction).
Look for first and second place winners in issue 36.2, coming to newsstands this summer, and follow the links below to read this year’s honourable mentions.
Our winners for 2012:
Fiction:
1st Place: “Skin” by Menaka Raman-Wilms, Thornhill, ON
2nd Place: “Hoax” by Kate Foster, Dartmouth, NS
Honourable Mention: “Miles To Inches” by Lynda Schroeders, Calgary, AB
Poetry:
1st Place: “Wilhelm Roentgen (X-rays, 1895)” by Kelly Cooper, Belleisle Creek, NB
2nd Place: “Early Detection” by Annathea (Tia) McLennan, Montreal, QC
Honourable Mention: “Lying In Bed In The Morning” by Gillian Wallace, Ottawa, ON
Creative Non-Fiction:
1st Place: “Marking Time With Murakami” by Alison Frost, Toronto, ON
2nd Place: “Words” by Marion Agnew, Shuniah, ON
Honourable Mention: “Loving Benjamin” by Gail Marlene Schwartz, Montreal, QC
