. Thursday May 8, 2025 at 7pm

Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank Street
(enter through courtyard)
New York, NY 10014

Winner in Prose: Elizabeth Hoban
Proud mom to three adult sons, she is a semi-retired nurse practitioner, who enjoys spending her free time with family, friends and four-legged critters. Reading and writing are her oxygen. Elizabeth is the author of numerous
short stories. Her book publications include: The Final Mission: A Boy, a Pilot, and a World at War; The Cheech Room; and The Secrets That Save Us. She is also the author of numerous columns and magazine articles in professional journals. When people ask her why she writes, her
typical response is, “I don’t know how to stop.”

Winner in Poetry: Joanne Durham
Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of
the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press, 2022) and the chapbook, On Shifting Shoals
(Kelsay Books, 2023). She has won Third Wednesday’s Annual Poetry Prize, the Mary Ruffin
Poole Prize, and Prime Number Magazine’s Summer Challenge, as well as being a finalist in
many other contests. She is an Eric Hoffer and three-time Pushcart nominee; her poems appear in
Poetry South, Poetry East, River Heron Review, Vox Populi, Whale Road Review, and many
other journals and anthologies. Joanne is a retired educator who currently teaches poetry
workshops online and in person. She lives on the North Carolina coast, with the ocean as her
backyard, muse, and source of sanity in troubled times. Visit her at www.joannedurham.com.