2024 Sonnet Contest Winners
The 2024 Winning Sonnets were announced publicly at our Celebrate the Sonnet event on July 27, 2024. Many of the winners participated and the full recording of the event will be available soon on our Events page.
The list of winners is below the video. The sonnets are published in a flipbook. Click here to read all of the winning sonnets.
2024 Sonnet Contest Winners
(The sonnets are published in a flipbook. Click here to read all of the winning sonnets.)
Till Death Us Do Part — Barbara Loots (Kansas City, Missouri)
Via Caio Cestio — Katharyn Howd Machan (Ithaca, New York)
Snapshot — Erica Reid (Fort Collins, Colorado)
Saint Valentine’s — Sally Wilder David (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Funeral Song for K.T. Yang — Sharon Hilberer (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Durability — Scott Lowery (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
The Music of the Spheres — Marilyn Taylor (Madison, Wisconsin)
Aurora — Jim Togeas (Morris, Minnesota)
YOUTH
[entrants high school and under]
To Speak Unique — Caroline Chen (Irvine, California)
A Visit From Felicity — Thaddeus Smilevski (Brooklyn, New York)
Lonesome Summer Beauties — Laurynn Van Doren (Prescott Valley, Arizona)
Journey to a Manhattan Bus Stop — Amy Wang (New York, New York)
In Which Ophelia Metaphysically Slays Her Father — Nancy Brewka-Clark (Beverly, Massachusetts)
Demeter’s Dirge — Carissa Coane (Pasadena, California)
Franklin at the Northeast Passage — Manfred Dietrich (Branchton, Ontario, Canada)
Close Reading — Frances Drayus (Los Angeles, California)
Forgetting a Name, I Search Through Old Emails — Midge Goldberg (Chester, New Hampshire)
Can’t Bring Myself to Fix It — Michael Harty (Prairie Village, Kansas)
Proposed Units, Phase Four, High Ashes — Ernest Hilbert (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Hyoscyamus niger — Juleigh Howard-Hobson (Astoria, Oregon)
The Prince Recalls His Days as Matchmaker — Tessa Li (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
First encounters with poetry — Steven Monte (New York, New York)
Laika (November 3, 1957) — Marijane Osborn (Davis, California)
Sonnet for an Old Cat — Laura Plummer (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Shark Bites — Marybeth Rua-Larsen (Somerset, Massachusetts)
The Invention of the Sword — Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz (New York, New York)
Black Ice — David Southward (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
The Sonnet of a Function — Xinyin Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)