2021 Sonnet Contest Winners
The 2021 Winning Sonnets were announced publicly at our Virtual Closing Event on July 31, 2021. Many of the winners participated and the full recording of the event is now available on our Events page. 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.
2021 Sonnet Contest Winners
(The sonnets are published in a flipbook. Click here to read all of the winning sonnets.)
Fourteen — Barbara Brannon
Fats Waller: Living Large — Aaron Fischer
Benediction — Lynda La Rocca
Conflagration — Richard Meyer
Reading Matter — Philip Goldfarb Styrt
Dining Room Longing — Mimi Jennings
Shell — Scott Lowery
Bear River Pow Wow Grounds — Elizabeth Tornes
YOUTH
[entrants high school and under]
Nature’s Last Chance — Vivian Collins
Hot concrete, water fills the jagged holes — Brendan Downes
The Green-Eyed Monster — Natanya James
Anger — Mackenzie Olson
The Perseids — Jeff Balch
In the Woods — Daniel Cleary
A Dog's Will — Stephen Colley
Black Bird — Barbara Lydecker — Crane
Her Shaggy Ally — Anna Evans
Wolf in the Vocative — Louise Fairley
Son and Father — Mel Goldberg
How to Sip Beer — Charles Halsted
Night Shift, COVID Ward — Michael Harty
Appeal — Ernest Hilbert
G pentatonic, Maine pine — Cindy Hill
Waiting — Jean L. Kreiling
House Arrest — Jeanetta Miller
Deep Waters — Bethany Mootsey
Ave Maria — Lee Nash
1978 — David Southward
Anchored — Marty Steyer
Block That Trope — Marilyn Taylor
Pneuma — James A. Tweedie
Am I enough, in and of myself? — Sadie Wilke