The Ontario Poetry Society - Cutting the Umbilical Cord - Transitions Poetry Contest Winners List

The Ontario Poetry Society Presents:
Cutting the Umbilical Cord - Transitions Poetry Contest
2025 Winners!

First Prize: Wave Man by Irina Moga, Toronto, ON
Second Prize: We Are All Just Walking Each Other Home by Charlotte Blair, Utterson, ON
Third Prize: Mysteries by Robert Ezergailis, Toronto, ON

20 Honourable mention Awards (Listed in order of appearance as in the book)

Wedding Vows 4 by April Bulmer, Cambridge, ON
How to Knit a Daughter by Rhonda Melanson, Sarnia, ON
Rite of Passage, Alvin Ens, Abbotsford, B.C.
Shift by Jacqueline d'Amboise, Maynooth, ON
Fibre Whisperer by Jacqueline d'Amboise, Maynooth, ON
the bare truth by Patti Cole, Toronto, ON
My brother says everyone needs a "posse" by Rebecca Clifford, Caledonia, ON
Jaclyn by Wayne Scott Ray, London, ON
Kintsugi by Lynn Tait, Sarnia, ON
My Body as Willow by Lynn Tait, Sarnia, ON
fear a snake by Lisa Watts, Cayuga, ON
She invited you to weed with her by Sarah Sangster, Regina, SK
Moved by Kerri-Ann Bevis, Timberlea, N.S.
The Frazzle by Chantel Lavoie, Kingston, ON
That It Should Come To This by Chantel Lavoie, Kingston, ON
grenade by Marianne Jones, Thunder Bay, ON
Love is a Hat In the Wind by Mary Anne Griffiths, Ingersoll, ON
… all gone into the world of light! By Katerina Vaughan Fretwell, St. Catharines, ON
And Sid Says by Charlotte Blair, Utterson, ON
Deglutinate by Charlotte Blair, Utterson, ON

Many thanks to our Contest Judge, John Oughton for carefully reading each poem several times before selecting the winning entries.

Thanks to all who supported this contest.