Thank you to all those who submitted to In Conversation.
The judge, Riley O’Connell, has made the following selections:
First prize: ‘St Tegla’s Well’ by Estelle Price
Second prize: ‘To A Stranger’ by Michael Conley
Third prize: ‘Dear Former Valentine’ by Sarah Stewart
The following poems have also been highly commended and will be published alongside the prizewinners in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review:
Out of heir – Dillon Jaxx
Platonic Love – Ari B. Cofer
How to Call in Sick with Depression – Billie Sainwood
Delivery of bad news – Prashant Pundir
Instead of you dying… – S. A. MacLeod
I Want You Immortal Until I Am Not – Ari B. Cofer
Savory – Annette Sisson
A Moment of Gratitude After a Moment of Terror – Justin Karcher
To live in my garden – Karen Grace Soans
The Colors of my Grandmother’s House – Debra Rymer
The Day Before You Forget It All Completely – Peter Devonald
growing into my okrika christmas clothes – Martins Deep
Exhibition – Elena Chamberlain
Lavender – Jo Snow
About RILEY O’CONNELL
In the first grade, a teacher told Riley O’Connell to ‘get her nose out of a book and get a life’—advice which she did not heed. An award-winning poet based in the Bay Area, Riley is an Editor for Colossus Press, an obsessive crocheter, and lover of all things strawberry, girlhood, and graham cracker-crusted. Twenty-six, she has poems published in Plainsongs, La Piccioletta Barca, Not Very Quiet, Making Waves, Pink Panther Magazine, Evocations Review, The Passionfruit Review, and The Santa Clara Review, the last of which she later served as Editor in Chief.
You can read some of Riley’s poetry in Issue 1 of The Passionfruit Review.
