Every year, we hear wonderful pieces throughout the five days of workshops and late nights of pirate. We were honored to recognize a few writers at the closing night award banquet for the work that they shared at this year's SBWC.
Fiction
First Place: Cat Robson
Honorable Mention: Hector Javkin
Nonfiction
First Place: Mari Larangeira
Honorable Mention: Erin Dougherty
Honorable Mention: Tom Huth
Poetry
First Place: Kaya Fried
Honorable Mention: Robin Burrows
Honorable Mention: Mike VanBlaricum
Finally, in the tradition of Barnaby Conrad, congratulations to the winners of Worst First Sentence, which is always a hilarious highlight of our closing night awards banquet!
Worst First Sentence
First Place: Margaux Hession
Honorable Mention: Mike Takeuchi