Poetry
First Prize: Disputanta Grin, by David Alan Payne (Summer).
Second Prize: To the Builders of My House, by Dan Leidig (Summer).
Third Prize: Money for a Pepsi, by Walter Lane (Fall)
Honorable Mention: Vacancies for Belief, by Deborah Byrne (Spring), Better Closing Lines, by Mary Ellen Miller (Winter).
Short Fiction
First Prize: Gemini Sister, by Jeanne Bryner (Spring).
Second Prize: Canning, by Silas D. House (Fall).
Third Prize: House Plants, by Ralph Price (Fall).
Honorable Mention: Confounded Life, by Tina Rae Collins (Fall).
Non-Fiction Prose
First Prize: Studying Place Names: Some Assumptions and Problems, by Robert M. Rennick (Summer).
Second Prize: Returning to Sustainability in Appalachia, by Bill Best (Winter).
Third Prize: The Old Swimmin' Hole, by G.C. Compton (Summer).
Honorable Mention: A Long Rest, by Catherine Morgan (Spring), Fetchin' and Carryin', by Dixie Thacker (Fall), November 9, 1947, by Lester Pross (Fall).
Judges
- Beck Finley edits the online magazine Twittering Machine and lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
- Jim Whorton teaches English at Northeast State Technical Community College in Mississippi and is an associate editor of the online version of Mississippi Review.
- Diana Dawson Plattner is an award-winning freelance writer and full-time copy editor living in Athens, Georgia.