The World Around Us Poetry Anthology Contest
2021 Winners List
First Prize: Ascent by Wendy Visser, Cambridge, ON
Second Prize: Beyond the Banks by Becky Alexander, Cambridge, ON
Third Prize: Qu'Appelle River by Anne Hopkinson, Victoria, BC
2 Judge's Choice Awards
A Heron on the Road by John Morris, Ottawa, ON
Anthem by Katerina Vaughan Fretwell, Seguin, ON
18 Honourable Mention Awards
Ellesmere Island by Rosemary Clewes, Toronto, Ont.
Snow by Rebecca Clifford, Caledonia, Ont.
Fledging by Katerina Fretwell, Seguin, Ont.
Early Autumn Rain by Katherine L. Gordon, Guelph, Ont.
A Red Buck Moon by Katherine L. Gordon, Guelph, Ont.
Pond-Fever by Anne Duke Judd, Port Elgin, Ont.
Snail Poem by Anne Duke Judd, Port Elgin, Ont.
Decree by Monty Moniz, Brampton, Ont.
Salmon Odyssey by Nicola Schneider, Dundas, Ont.
Into an Everyday Wilderness by K.V. Skene, Toronto, Ont.
Ferocious by Patricia Smekal, Nanoose Bay, B.C.
Fibonacci's Sequence by Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith, Richmond, Ont.
Tyrrhenian Sea by Michael Stacey, London, Ont.
One Might Even Say a Sunflower by J.J. Steinfeld, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Petals by David Stones, Stratford, Ont.
The Sunflower by Sarah Taylor, Carseland, Alberta
Abraham Lake by Greg Turlock, Parkland County, A.B.
Portfolio by Wendy Visser, Cambridge, Ont.