2023 Edition

This year’s collection covers topics ranging from memoir to adapting to the current challenges of our age. Between the covers you will find romance, mystery, and songs told from the heart.

Contributors range from seasoned poets and writers to those just starting out on their writing journey.
We hope you are as inspired and entertained by these stories as we were writing them!

  • Nonfiction
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Flash Fiction

Nonfiction

  • The Honey Tree, Sharon SingingMoon
  • The Mower Diaries, Virginia Lee
  • Signs of Aging for the Hearing Impaired, Lynn McIntosh

Honorable Mention: –

Fiction

  • Do it Yourself, Frank Montagnino
  • Still Fine, Saralinda Bauer
  • This, Millie Henry

Honorable Mention: Night Drive 1961, Jana Stephens

Contest Winners

The Well-versed submission process also involves a contest with prizes.

Here are this year’s winners in each category.

Poetry

  • On the Pennsylvania Turnpike, M. Cortney Daniels
  • How to Tell an Old Missouri Road, David Tager
  • Broken, Rebecca Graves

Honorable Mention: Burning Days, Marcie McGuire

Flash Fiction

  • Visitors, Jana Stephens
  • Don’t Go That Way, Adria Waters
  • Treasure, Jana Stevens

Honorable Mention: –