2023 ISPS Contest Winners’ List
Category #1: Love Award
Sponsored by: ISPS Lisle Chapter
(in memory Glenna Holloway, Nancy Carrigan, Michael Galati)
Subject: Love Form: Any
Judge: Amelia Martens
1st Place: Marianne Peel,
“Let Tenderness Come”
2nd Place: Julie Schwerin,
“Unshelled”
3rd Place: Bakul Banerjee,
“Synapses Are Dying”
HM #1: Maureen Tolman Flannery, “Aging Together Off the Grid”
HM #2: Jamie Wendt, “Beach Hazard”
HM #3: Wilda Morris, “Now that I have
a fractured foot”
Category #2: House Award
Sponsored by: Ida Kotyuk
Subject: A house
Form: Any
Judge: Pat Taylor
1st Place: Camille Balla, “A Day at the Cenacle Retreat House”
2nd Place: Gail Denham, “No Curtains”
3rd Place: Barbara Blanks, “In Residence”
HM #1: Judith Galati, “Going Home”
HM #2: Mary Jo Balisteri, “Returning”
HM #3: Marianne Peel, “Beneath the Surface in a Kentucky Kitchen”
Category #3: Viator Award
Sponsored by: Michael Escoubas (in memory of Kathleen A. Rippey, his mother-in-law) Subject: Any
Form: Viator
Judge: Russell Strauss
1st Place: John McPherson, “My Vile Companion”
2nd Place: Bakul Banerjee, “The Paper Boat”
3rd Place: Kathy Lohrum Cotton, “Drought”
HM #1: Elizabeth King, “The Hickory Grove”
HM #2: Judith Galati, “Breaking Silence”
HM #3: Lorraine Jeffrey, “Because of her”
