2017 Winners List
Pandora's Collective Poetry Contest
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Adult Category: 1st Place Winner Alouette River Dike, July by Zuzana Vasko (Maple Ridge, BC) 2nd Place Winner Driving North by Trudy Noort (Maple Ridge, BC) 3rd Place Winner Backbone of the Night by Adrienne Drobnies (Vancouver, BC) Honorable Mentions: Falling by Trudy Noort (Maple Ridge, BC) The Play by Trudy Noort (Maple Ridge, BC) Bone to Green Berry by Jude Neale (Bowen Island, BC) The Land by Fran Bourassa (North Vancouver, BC) Man on the moon by Adrienne Drobnies (Vancouver, BC) Winter Solstice Prayer by Margaret McKeon (Vancouver, BC) Teen Category: 1st Place Winner A Thursday Letter to God by Samantha Chen (Vancouver, BC) 2nd Place Winner Inferno by Luka Heinrich (Blyth, Ont.) 3rd Place Winner Seventy-Eight Percent (78%) by Sarah Williams-Habibi (Hamilton, Ont.) Honorable Mentions: Help by Sarah Williams-Habibi (Hamilton, Ont.) a windowsill I do not speak of by Samantha Chen (Vancouver, BC) Midnight in October by Jerry Xu (Vancouver, BC) Dreams in the Sky by Philip Shi (Surrey, BC) Nanaimo by Samantha Chen (Vancouver, BC) Child Category: 1st Place Winner My Dog is a Dragon by Cara Gordon (Vancouver, BC) 2nd Place Winner The First Snowfall by Cara Gordon (Vancouver, BC) 3rd Place Winner Who Could Catch Five Fish? by Katharina Lieblich (Delta, BC) Honorable Mentions: Autumn Leaves by Katharina Lieblich (Delta, BC) My Grandmother's House by Cara Gordon (Vancouver, BC) Will you Miss the Lights by Cara Gordon (Vancouver, BC) My Fish by Katharina Lieblich (Delta, BC) We Are by Ginuki Jayewardena (Surrey, BC) Judges: Daniela Elza and Leanne Boschman Daniela Elza’s work appears nationally and internationally in over 80 publications. Her poetry books are milk tooth bane bone (Leaf Press, 2013), the weight of dew (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2012) and the book of It (2011). In 2011 Daniela earned her doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Simon Fraser University. She was the 2014 Writer-In-Residence at the University of the Fraser Valley. Leanne Boschman is a prairie transplant to the West Coast. After a recent stint in academia where she experimented with fusing various discourses in the Languages, Cultures, and Literacies program in the Faculty of Education at SFU, she is happily reveling in poetry again. In 2009, her collection of poems Precipitous Signs: A Rain Journal was published by Leaf Press. Her poems have also appeared in Other Voices, Dandelion Magazine, Geist Magazine, Room, and Prism International. |
