Announcing the winners of 2022's Golden Nib!
Poetry
First Place:
Devin Reese, "Small Pandemic Joys"
Second Place:
Joy Merritt Krystosek, "Ashes to Ashes Dust and Beyond"
Third Place
C.L. Bledsoe, "Barley and Vegetable Soup"
Nonfiction
First Place:
John Dutton, III, "The Season of the Lost Summer"
Second Place:
Cecilia Thomas, "Nina"
Third Place:
Jason Maddux, "Instructions for How to Buy a Tent"
Fiction
First Place:
David Barudin, "Berka Menakhemovich"
Second Place:
Alyce Rita Campbell, "Death on National Paperclip Day"
Third Place:
Paul Steinberg, "Branch Office"