The 2023 contest closed on June 3 and judging has completed. Congratulations to our winners! |
Fiction 1st Place: Mary Beth Danielson - How Crow Got Out of Jail 2nd Place: Bert Kreitlow - Abandoned school 3rd Place: Brea Ruddy - Shine On, My Light Honorable Mentions:
| Non-fiction 1st Place: Vacated due to rules violation. 2nd Place: Nancy Jesse - Waiting Room 3rd Place: Jeffrey Lewis - The Night was Dark Honorable Mentions:
| Poetry 1st Place: Susan Huebner - Variation on a Theme 2nd Place: Mary M Brown - Another Aubade 3rd Place: Yvette Flaten - Fade to Black Honorable Mentions:
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Join us again next summer for the 2024 Jade Ring writing contest
Thank You To Our Judges
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Christine DeSmet - Fiction
Christine is a writer, writing coach, and an award-winning author and scriptwriter. For many years she helmed the Writers’ Institute and the Write-by- the-Lake Writer’s Retreat as well as online writing courses at University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was a Distinguished Faculty Associate of writing. She writes the Fudge Shop Mystery series and the Mischief in Moonstone novella series. She is a member of Blackbird Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Writers Guild of America East, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, and Wisconsin Writers Association. Christine shares writer education and news posts regularly on Facebook. |
| David McGlynn - Non-fiction David is the author of three books, The End of the Straight and Narrow, A Door in the Ocean, and One Day You’ll Thank Me. He’s a frequent contributor to Men’s Health and Swimmer magazines, and his recent work appears in The American Scholar, Narrative, River Teeth, The New York Times and elsewhere. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin and teaches at Lawrence University. |
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Angela Trudell Vasquez - Poetry
Angie is the current city of Madison Poet Laureate (2020-2024) and the first Latina to hold the position. Angie received her MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2017. Recently, her poems have appeared in The Slow Down, Yellow Medicine Review, Poem-a-Day, About Place Journal and in several anthologies. In 2018 she was a finalist for the New Women’s Voices series and her collection, In Light, Always Light, was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2019. Finishing Line Press also published her fourth collection of poetry, My People Redux, in January 2022. In the summer of 2021 she became a Macondo Fellow or a Macondista. She is the current chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. |
