Traditional Sonnets, Judge: Marilyn L. Taylor (WI)
1st Place: Donna Vorreyer (IL), “Airborne”
2nd Place: Yakov Azriel (CA), “Cancer”
3rd Place: Amber Pritchard (SC), “Dissonance”
1st Honorable Mention: Anna Remennik (CA), “Brozymandias”
2nd Honorable Mention: Damaris West (Scotland), “A Distant Love”
3rd Honorable Mention: Kathleen McClung (CA), “Sonnet for the Downstairs Neighbor Who Smokes a Lot of Pot”
1st Special Merit: Daniel Galef (OH), “Busman at the Bridge”
2nd Special Merit: Erica Reid (CO), “The Joy of Flying Paper Airplanes”
3rd Special Merit: Gay D. Alson (Canada), “Autumn Predawn”
Modern Sonnet, Judge: Carol Clark Williams (PA)
1st Place: Barbara Lydecker Crane (MA), “Masterwork”
2nd Place: Barbara Blanks (TX), “A-Tisket, A-Casket”
3rd Place: Maureen Tolman Flannery (IL), “Assisting Rand McNally”
1st Honorable Mention: James B. Nicola (NY), “One, in Symbol and Practice”
2nd Honorable Mention: Daniel Cleary (IL), “Farmer’s Market”
3rd Honorable Mention: Keli Osborn (OR), “Oregon Sonnet: South Sister”
1st Special Merit: Steven Searcy (GA), “At This Moment”
2nd Special Merit: Imaan Wallenburg (South Africa), “I, Icarus”
3rd Special Merit: Michael Waterson (CA), “Much Ado About Starlings”