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