Winners of 2014 BWA Writers Contest

Non-Fiction

1st Place “Annette Grosse” by Carol Jean Campbell, Brainerd, MN

2nd Place “Season of Lefse and Loss”  by Norma Thorstad Knapp, Alexandria, MN

Honorable Mention “The Splinter” by Craig Nagel, Pequot Lakes,MN

Fiction

1st Place  “In Joy and in Sadness” by Lisa M. Bolt Simons, Fairbault, MN

2nd Place “ Sweetwater Road” by Patricia Nelsen, Wadena, MN

Poetry

1st Place “Up Close” by Georgia Greeley, St. Paul, MN

2nd Place “Birds of a Feather” by Laura K. Murray, Mankato, MN

Honorable Mention “Sestina for Defenestrating Children” by Saara Myrene Raappana, Marshall, MN