Well Versed 2023 – Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers Guild

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

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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: –