2025 Golden Quill Writing Contest Results

Fiction

First Place: “The Amateur’s Guide to Renovating Your Haunted House” by Molly Powers

Second Place: “Eating in Darkness” by Bobby Sorensen

Third Place: “Give Me Liberty … Or, At Least ‘Plan C'” by Zaslow Crane

First Place: “Mardi Gras” by Rob Rogers

Second Place: “Navigating Mauretania” by Dawn Smith

Third Place (tie):

“Risky Rewards” by Dean Thompson

“Moth to a Flame” by Katy Bonello

First place: “To Vulnerability” by Carolyn Chilton

Second place: “Through the Desert” by Emily Niebuhr

Third place: “Is This His Way of Counting Coup?” by Andréa Gannon