Doris Ferleger
Judged: Aug-Sep 2022
Doris Ferleger
Doris Ferleger, former poet laureate of Montgomery County PA and award-winning poet and memoir essayist, is the author of four full length volumes of poetry including Big Silences in a Year of Rain (finalist for the Alice James Books/Beatrice Hawley Award), As the Moon Has Breath, Leavened, and As for the Kiss (finalist for the Cod Hill, Marsh Hawk and Word Works contests), as well as a chapbook entitled When You Become Snow. been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, Delmarva Review, L.A. Review, Poet Lore, The Virginia Normal, and South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in Psychology and maintains a telehealth mindfulness/compassion based psychotherapy practice.
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August 2022 Winners
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First Place
Sodom by the Sea
by Ken Ashworth
The Writer's Block
Second Place
Good Omens
by Christine Potter
The Waters
Third Place
Isaac and the Apple
by Rus Bowden
Babilu
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July 2022 Winners
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First Place
striking a match in an empty house
by Billy Howell-Sinnard
The Waters
Second Place
My Soul to Keep
by Jim Doss
Babilu
Third Place
Li Po Adrift
by Bob Bradshaw
The Writer's Block
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