- 1st Place for “Photo Inspired,” August 2016: “The Duprass” (short story). Read on Writing Samples page here. *
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Herb-and-Marsha-1024x743.jpg)
- 2nd Place for “Distractions in Blue,” June 2019: “Any Color I Don’t Like” (poem). **
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-Distractions-1024x576.jpg)
- 2nd Place for “Summer Solstice,” July 2018: “Some Call It a Cathedral” (creative nonfiction). **
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-summer-replacement.jpg)
Image: “The Redwoods” by othree.
License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
- 2nd Place (in a 2-way tie) for “Full Moon,” March 2017: “The Arrival of Kitty” (short story).
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-Full-Moon.jpg)
- 3rd Place for “Beyond the Headlines,” Oct. 2020: “From the Valley of the Smoke” (poem).***
![depicts the news fire and unknown identity](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/illo-for-Valley-of-the-Smoke-683x1024.jpg)
- 3rd Place for “The days dwindle down to a precious few,” Sept. 2019: “Done Soon” (essay). **
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-days-dwindle-Jesus-by-Rino-Porrovecchio-cropped.jpg)
Image by Rino Porrovecchio.
License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
- 3rd Place for “Vacation Disasters,” July 2019: “After Ruby” (novel excerpt).
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-Vacation-Teen.jpg)
Image “Teen Romance 2,” by Oteo.
License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
- 3rd Place for “Victim Vs. Survivor,” Aug. 2018: “Reaching Beyond Survival” (poem). (Printed in abbreviated form in Robin’s zine Turtle Soup: On Finding My Voice, Issue 3, July 2019).
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-Victim.jpg)
Image by “Poor Victim” by Reinhard Kuchenbäcker. License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
- 3rd Place for “What If,” Aug. 2017: “What if I Made a Living as a Writer?” (essay).
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-What-If.jpg)
Image “Writer_me,” by Madeline Wright.
License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
- 3rd Place for “For Art’s Sake,” July 2017: “Slave” (poem). *
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-For-Arts-Sake-1024x887.jpg)
- 3rd Place in 3-way tie for “Unspoken Bonds,” May 2017: “Secret Lives” (creative nonfiction). *
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-Unspoken-Rosebud.jpg)
- 3rd Place for “Be Inspired,” January 2017: “A Dark and Stormy Knight” (short story).
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-Be-Inspired-1024x736.jpg)
- 3rd Place for “And Now What?” September 2016: “As in Identical” (short story). *
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-And-Now-What-687x1024.jpg)
- 3rd Place for “Home,” June 2016: “Home was Where They Never Let Me In” (memoir including a poem).
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p1-Home-Humanoids-Arguing.jpg)
Image: “Humanoids Arguing,” by Vic.
License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
*Published in The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 6, 2017, available on Amazon.
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p2-Writers-Mill-Journal-6.jpg)
**Published in Beyond Yesterday: The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 7, 2019, available on Amazon.
![](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/p2-Beyond-Yesterday.jpg)
***Published in The Floor Above: The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 9, available on Amazon.
![showing the cover of the latest Writers' Mill book](https://www.writingthatsings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/floorabove_cover_final-683x1024.jpg)
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