2020 Sonnet Contest Winners
The 2020 Winning Sonnets were announced publicly at our Virtual Closing Event on August 8, 2020. Many of the winners participated and the recording of the event is available on our Events page: sonnetcontest.org/events/. The slide show below lists all of the winners along with the people who make the Sonnet Contest possible. It features music performed by Flutistry, the official musicians of the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest.
2020 Sonnet Contest Winners
(Click on a category for winning entries. All winners are listed alphabetically by last name.)
Daffodils – Anna Beecher
Bookworm, a Fragment – Arnold Johnston
30 September – Katharyn Howd Machan
Perfect Snow – Susan McMillan
Going Viral: Two – Jim Togeas
The Kiss – Steven Vogel
YOUTH CATEGORY
[entrants high school and under]
uncomfortably numb – Julia Biller
Beyond my Realm – Annika Myrup
Music – Rileigh Olson
LAUREATES' CHOICE
(Click on a sub-category for winning entries. Winners are grouped alphabetically by last name.)
Across the sleeping valley nothing tells – James Brooks
Silent Spring 2020 – Barbara H. Bryan
Ariel Unbound – Melissa Cannon
On Listening to Arvo Pärt in Lent – Louise Fairley
Filindeu for Uncle Nico – Aaron Fischer
A Museum: Steamboat Arabia, Excavated 150 Years After She Sank – Michael Harty
April, 2020 – Laurie Holding
The Worth of August – Siham Karami
Old Lady with No Complaints – Barbara Loots
In the Time of Contagion – Richard Meyer
Laureates' Choice – Group Three
How They Keep Us Safe – Sarah Paulos
At Sea – David Sullivan
Masking Conditions – Michael Waterson
Everything You Loved – Gail White
Reveries While Walking the Mesa on the Hottest Day of the Year – Scott Wiggerman