Contest Winners, the Portland Writers’ Mill

• 1^st Place for “Photo Inspired,” August 2016: “The Duprass” (short story). Read on Writing Samples page here. *

• 2^nd Place for “Distractions in Blue,” June 2019: “Any Color I Don’t Like” (poem). **

• 2^nd Place for “Summer Solstice,” July 2018: “Some Call It a Cathedral” (creative nonfiction). **

• 2^nd Place (in a 2-way tie) for “Full Moon,” March 2017: “The Arrival of Kitty” (short story).

• 3rd Place for “Beyond the Headlines,” Oct. 2020: “From the Valley of the Smoke” (poem).***

• 3^rd Place for “The days dwindle down to a precious few,” Sept. 2019: “Done Soon” (essay). **

• 3^rd Place for “Vacation Disasters,” July 2019: “After Ruby” (novel excerpt).

• 3^rd 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).

• 3^rd Place for “What If,” Aug. 2017: “What if I Made a Living as a Writer?” (essay).

• 3^rd Place for “For Art’s Sake,” July 2017: “Slave” (poem). *

• 3^rd Place in 3-way tie for “Unspoken Bonds,” May 2017: “Secret Lives” (creative nonfiction). *

• 3^rd Place for “Be Inspired,” January 2017: “A Dark and Stormy Knight” (short story).

• 3^rd Place for “And Now What?” September 2016: “As in Identical” (short story). *

• 3^rd Place for “Home,” June 2016: “Home was Where They Never Let Me In” (memoir including a poem).

*Published in The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 6, 2017, available on Amazon.

**Published in Beyond Yesterday: The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 7, 2019, available on Amazon.

***Published in The Floor Above: The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 9, available on Amazon.