First Place in Kay Snow Writing Contest
First place in the Timberline Review’s Kay Snow Fiction category
Our 2023 Kay Snow Award Winners
The Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry
First place: “She Lived with Cats” by Ruth Q. Leibowitz
Runner-up: “Once Starved, Never Full” by Rene Lytle
The Kay Snow Award for Nonfiction (with special thanks to Elizabeth Lyon)
First place: “Half Truths at Spent at Slipping Rock” by Mary Sweigert
Runner-up: “Wings” by Teresa H. Janssen
Kay Snow Award for Fiction (with special thanks to C. Lill Ahrens)
First place: “How to Get a Best Friend” by Brenna Twobears
Runner-up: “Standing in Water” by Kathleen Caprario Ulrich
The purpose of this annual writing contest, named in honor of Willamette Writers’ founder, Kay Snow, is to help writers reach professional goals in writing through a broad array of categories, and also to encourage student writers. In addition to prizes, winners are listed on the Willamette Writers website and honored at our Willamette Writers Conference held annually in August. Check out the new guidelines here.
Important: the Timberline Review and Kay Snow Awards are now working together, so if you submit to the Timberline Review, you will automatically be entered in the Kay Snow Awards. There is no separate submission for Kay Snow. You cannot submit to Kay Snow without submitting to the Timberline Review. Make sure you review our new guidelines here.