Contest prompt: There was blood and a single gunshot
Judge: Alan Samry
Poetry
First place: Carol Robbins Hull Title: A Single Gunshot
Second place: Patricia Smith Title: November up North
Honorable mention: Pamela Hollon Title: The High Price of Honor
Prose
First place: Rosanne Gulisano Title: Lost in History
Second place: Larry Wilson Title: A Song to Die for
Honorable mention: Sonya Bennett Title: Rocco the Wonder Do