Christian Poetry: Poetry Contest Winners

The Christian Publishers Poetry Prize is the world's premiere prize for rhyming verse written by Christians.

Poetry Contest Winners

Here are the current and past winners of the Christian Publishers Poetry Prize. We do not always publish all of the winning poems, but we try to post a selection, especially the top prize winning poems.

2011 Contest

Category 1 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Christine Nash Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia	How Can Love Be Seen in Nothing?
Second Prize: $150 cash Eulene H. Moores Stony Plain, Alberta	According To…
Honorable Mention: $50 Nicole Jones LaPorte, Colorado	Rememb'ring Him

Category 2 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash John Vigren Blairstown, New Jersey	He Inclined to Me
Second Prize: $150 cash Vicki Wilke Clarkston, Michigan	Lenten Reflection
Honorable Mention: $50 Jennifer Galey Pelham, Alabama	Midnight Prayer

2010 Contest

Category 1 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Jennifer Galey Pelham, Alabama	Childish Things
Second Prize: $150 cash Laurie Flanigan Kingston, Massachusetts	The Inexhaustible Voice of Glory
Honorable Mention: $50 Linda Watson Owen Puckett, Mississippi	Wisteria's Winter Night

Category 2 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Karen Winterburn Glenview, Illinois	Dance With Me
Second Prize: $150 cash Linda Bonney Olin Nineveh, New York	My Forever Lord
Honorable Mention: $50 Michael Alexander Gramat, France	Grace Alone

2009 Contest

Category 1 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen) More poems will be posted for reading soon!

First Prize: $300 cash Richard Mowry The Villages, Florida	A Country Graveyard
Second Prize: $100 cash Donna Arlynn Frisinger Rochester, Indiana	Magic Waiting Room
Honorable Mention: $40 Daniel Lee Mishkin South Portland, Maine	Celebrating Hymn
Honorable Mention: $40 Renee Cleveland Fort Worth, Texas	Surely
Honorable Mention: $40 Judith Taylor Carriere, Mississippi	Jesus the Christ
Honorable Mention: $40 Kevin P. McCabe St. Catharines, Ontario	Who Do Men Say That I Am?
Honorable Mention: $40 Jack Roger Smith Victoria, British Columbia	Heed the Little Voice

Category 2 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Richard Mowry The Villages, Florida	The Bonfire
Second Prize: $100 cash Karen Winterburn Glenview, Illinois	Looking for the Lamb
Honorable Mention: $40 Richard S. Barnett Wimberley, Texas	Have You Seen the Children Crying?
Honorable Mention: $40 Temple Cone Annapolis, Maryland	A Filament of Proof
Honorable Mention: $40 Sarah Keller Murray St-Jean-Chrysostome, Quebec	Kaleidoscope
Honorable Mention: $40 Marlene Simpson Telford, Tennessee	Teach Me Lord
Honorable Mention: $40 John McCuen Greenville, South Carolina	Contending for the Truth: Therefore Solafidaism

2008 Contest

Category 1 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Tina Louise Blevins Charlottesville, Virginia	Praise Him the One in Three
Second Prize: $100 cash Linda Watson Owen Como, Mississippi	As Fresh as Heaven Fair
Honorable Mention: $20 Roderick Graham Albury, N.S.W., Australia	The Remnant You Know
Honorable Mention: $20 Lindsay Dawn Feldmeth San Pedro, California	Easter Tide
Honorable Mention: $20 Walter Skold Freeport, Maine	Blessed Art Thou
Honorable Mention: $20 Vivian Chretien Pearland, Texas	The Power of Prayer
Honorable Mention: $20 Joyce Harback Calgary, Alberta	Comfort

Category 2 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Temple Cone Annapolis, Maryland	In Passing
Second Prize: $100 cash Lionel Willis Norland, Ontario	Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?
Honorable Mention: $20 Violet Nesdoly Langley, British Columbia	Broken Things
Honorable Mention: $20 Sheila Murray-Nellis Kaslo, British Columbia	Holy Saturday
Honorable Mention: $20 Karen Winterburn Glenview, Illinois	Clouds
Honorable Mention: $20 Mark Amorose Mesa, Arizona	Gethsemane
Honorable Mention: $20 Brett Elizabeth Spore Bothell, Washington	My Captain

2007 Contest

Category 1 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Lorraine Buck Charlottetown, PEI	Meet Me At the Cross
Second Prize: $100 cash Donna Arlynn Frisinger Rochester, Indiana	Make You Famous
Honorable Mention: $20 Duane W. Udd Anacortes, Washington	The Shape of Things to Come
Honorable Mention: $20 George R. Kossik Detroit, Michigan	That I Like Him Should Be
Honorable Mention: $20 Alvin Ens Abbotsford, BC	Building
Honorable Mention: $20 Nika Cruce Harrison, Arkansas	Tomorrow
Honorable Mention: $20 Eulene Moores Stony Plain, Alberta	All Sufficient Grace

Category 2 (Winners are listed in the order in which they were chosen)

First Prize: $300 cash Glenn B. Atkinson Princeton Junction, New Jersey	Hosanna
Second Prize: $100 cash Gary Brown Dallas, Texas	The Pesach Stone (Easter)
Honorable Mention: $20 Tracy Lee Rittmueller Warner, New Hampshire	To Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo
Honorable Mention: $20 Lynne Bourgault Spear Mesa, Arizona	Sparrow Plain
Honorable Mention: $20 Penny J. Borden Knoxville, Tennessee	Father of His Own
Honorable Mention: $20 R. L. Hunsberger Parker, Colorado	Forsake Me Not…
Honorable Mention: $20 Seth Bias Winston-Salem, North Carolina	Dawning

Christian Publishers Poetry Prize

$1,000 in cash for Christian poetry in traditional forms!