2025 POETRY CONTEST WINNERS!
On June 6th the Clackamas Arts Alliance’s Literary Arts Committee, with Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen presenting awards, hosted its 3rd Annual Writing Contest. This year it was a Poetry Contest for which we received many beautiful submissions.
The winners read their poems at the Milwaukie Poetry Series First Friday Reading and Open Mic.
- Jone MacCulloch – 1st Place Winner – Goddess Sighting on the Corner of Sunnyside Road and the I-205 North
- Wendy Wagner – Honorable Mention – Overlooking Willamette Falls
- Lindsay Boyer – Honorable Mention – Where Fish Once Swam
We welcome the community to download, read, and enjoy the three winning pieces. Simply hover over the boxes with the winner’s name and click the “READ IT” button. Please do not use or share these writing entries without the author’s expressed permission.
Thank you to our judge panelists, our Literary Arts Committee, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen, the Milwaukie Poetry Series, Tom Hogan, and the St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church. And thank you to everyone who submitted poetry to this contest.
Stay tuned to our 2026 contest announcement next year!
Photos above by: Ariella-Sophie Sternberg