2022 Sonnet Contest Winners
The 2022 Winning Sonnets were announced publicly at our Celebrate the Sonnet event on July 30, 2022. Many of the winners participated and the full recording of the event is available on our Events page. The slide show below lists all of the winners along with the people who make the Sonnet Contest possible.
The sonnets are published in a flipbook. Click here to read all of the winning sonnets.
2022 Sonnet Contest Winners
(The sonnets are published in a flipbook. Click here to read all of the winning sonnets.)
TOP FOUR
faraway mind — Maithreyi Bharathi (Saratoga, California)
Putin’s Mariupol — Michael Harty (Prairie Village, Kansas)
A Death in Autumn — Miles David Moore (Alexandria, Virginia)
First Married Christmas — Marcia Ratliff (Winona, Minnesota)
REGIONAL
Emergence — Scott Lowery (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
1984 — David Southward (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Eve in a Bar — Joel Van Valin (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
Turtle Lake Nocturne — Steven R. Vogel (Rochester, Minnesota)
YOUTH
[entrants high school and under]
Sea Change — Riona Duncan (Chicago, Illinois)
Sunless Shade — Abigail Rinkenberger (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)
The Chaser of Words — Lucy Severson (Winona, Minnesota)
Growth — Gwendolyn Taylor (Rockville, Maryland)
LAUREATES' CHOICE
Uvalde — Paul Buchheit (Chicago, Illinois)
Star Symphony — Niccolò Campus (Florence, Italy)
Rules for Trans Guys, Sonnet #2 — Max Delsohn (Syracuse, New York)
Clamdiggers — Aaron Fischer (Fort Lee, New Jersey)
Lunchtime on the Block — Jonathan Holland (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
Small Talk — Melissa Johnson (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania)
Widow's Walk — Allison Joseph (Carbondale, Illinois)
Written in Light — Siham Karami (Orlando, Florida)
Maple Keys and Ducklings — Matthew King (Marmora, Ontario Canada)
To Homer — Anthony Knight (Billericay, United Kingdom)
Neighbor's Lament — Charles Leggett (Seattle, Washington)
Fierce Feathers — Lynne Page (Ventura, California)
Elegy for a County Fair Goldfish — Joseph Paulson (Los Angeles, California)
Invisible Before Us Untouched and Still Possible — Janet Ruth (Corrales, New Mexico)
More — Julia Travers (Gordonsville, Virginia)
Childhood 1919 — David Whippman (Blackpool United Kingdom)