2022 Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry & Fiction Contest Winners Reading

 

Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine presented a virtual reading on October 24 as part of the 2022 Wisconsin Book Festival. The winners of the 2022 Fiction & Poetry Contests read their winning entries. The event was hosted by interim editor, Christopher Chambers. 

Program

Welcome message by Christopher Chambers

3rd Place poetry by Jess L. Parker, Fitchburg  — “Neptune” 

3rd Place fiction by Janice Wilberg, Milwaukee — “Snow Door” 

2nd Place poetry by Alecia Beymer, Madison  — “A Couple Months After My Father’s Death, I Read About Songbirds Mysteriously Dying in Pennsylvania” 

2nd Place fiction by Richie Zaborowske, Appleton —  “Down in the Valley”  

1st Place poetry by Nicholas Gulig, Fort Atkinson  — “Of Genesis” 

1st Place fiction by Tom Pamperin, Chippewa Falls — “In Rock Springs When the Angel Trumpets Sound”  

Closing message by Christopher Chambers