| Category & Judge(s) |
Winner |
| 1-President's Prize (Fiction) | Green River Writers |
First - Carol Carpenter | Rosy's Mother |
| Second - Sheila Day | Someone Better |
| Third - Beecher Smith | Castle Kite |
| Hm 1 - Eugene Bales | The Beginning Word |
| Hm 2 - John White | Beneath the Wintry Sky |
Hm 3 - Lynn Sadler | The Cover Crop
and
Carol Carpenter | The Puppet Show |
| 2-Green River Grande (Poetry) | Green River Writers |
First - Linda Reising | Rewriting Family History |
| Second - Tom Raithel | After Rain |
| Third - Sally Clark | Barking and Clawing Against a Sensible Lease |
| Hm 1 - Carol Carpenter | Madame Tina |
| Hm 2 - Jessica Thompson | Upon the Death of a Poet |
| Hm 3 - Ellaraine Lockie | Clean-up in Rwanda |
| 3-Green River Lean (Fiction) | Marj Bixler |
First - Jim Miller | The Consent Button |
| Second - Sylvia Embry | Meeting of the Waters |
| Third - Carol Carpenter | Case Closed |
| Hm 1 - Mary Lou Madigan | The Reawakening |
| Hm 2 - Terry Cobb | That'll Teach 'Em |
| 4-Suzanne Suddeth Memorial Prize (Prose or Poetry) | Chuck Suddeth |
First - Sally Clark | Lilah Belle's Busy Day |
| Second - Cris Staubach | This is the Seed That Jane Planted |
| Third - Laura Loomis | Rhea's Puppies |
| Hm 1 - Beecher Smith | Boogey Man |
| 5-Rubye Fowler Memorial Prize (Creative Nonfiction) | Elaine Fowler Palencia |
First - Sheila Day | It's Just--Nothing |
| Second - Marcia Gay | Two Sisters |
| Third - Clarence Salyer | Learning Life |
| Hm 1 - Sylvia Embry | Never Enough Ice Cream |
| Hm 2 - Caroline Sposto | Breathing Room |
| Hm 3 - Beecher Smith | The Legend of Bubba |
| 6-Come to the Clear Creek Conference (Poetry) | Clear Creek Writers |
First - Sally Clark | Watch Where You Step |
| Second - Beech Smith | Bessie's Sanctuary |
| Third - Chad M. Horn | Bothersome Chatter |
| Hm 1 - Linda Reising | Amnesiac |
| Hm 2 - Becky Alexander | Eight-footed Invasion |
| 7-Hub City Prize (Poetry) | Ruth Falk Redel |
First - Linda Reising | Donaldson Cave |
| Second - Gregory Hagan | The Last Sweet Bite |
| Third - Benjamin Dugger | The Sexton's Duty, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Macon, Georgia |
| Hm 1 - Benjamin Dugger | Checkmate |
| 8-Jim O'Dell Memorial (Poetry) | Mary O'Dell |
First - Beecher Smith | Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar's Greatest Regret |
| Second - Cate Pearson | "There once was a young prince" |
| Third - Caroline Sposto | No Mother to Warn Her |
| Hm 1 - Benjamin Dugger | Avoiding Vagrancy |
| Hm 2 - Rebecca Lindsay | "A snake from the dry Kalahari" |
| Hm 3 - Benjamin Dugger | Words From a Bottle |
| 9-Sometimes You Can’t Be Saved From
Yourself (Poetry) | Terri Alekzander & Judy Gill Milford |
First - Gregory Hagan | Through An Open Window |
| Second - Linda Frisa | I Always Say |
| Third - Beecher Smith | The House of Penance |
| Hm 1 - Carol Carpenter | Collector of Petty Grievances |
| Hm 2 - Christina Peters | Please Don't Make Me Color |
| Hm 3 - Janice Hornburg | Folly Beach |
| 10-Poems Written for Myself in Memory of S.A. Bayes | The Barroom Bards |
First - Carol Carpenter | Hospice |
| Second - Jessica Thompson | Learning the Flamenco |
| Third - Linda Reising | Cruising Rt. 66, Miami, OK |
| Hm 1 - Ellaraine Lockie | Run-on Sentence |
| Hm 2 - Carol Carpenter | The Farthest House |
Hm 3 - Pamela Gibbs | For the Man at the River
and
Janice Hornburg | Perspective |
| 11-"Poems Written After Midnight": The Deborah Madden Memorial (Poetry) | Lori Hawkins |
First - Janice Hornburg | Acrophobia |
| Second - Carol Carpenter | Midnight Shift at the GM Body and Assembly Plant |
| Third - Carol Carpenter | What the Old Woman Sees From Her Frosted Window |
Hm 1 - Carol Carpenter | Breakthrough
and
Janice Hornburg | Summer's End |
Hm 2 - Linda Reising | Blackberry Winter
and
Danny Knestaut | The Late Show |
| Hm 3 - Shelia Day | Out Mending Fences |
| 12-Personal Poem (Poetry) | Sheri Wright & Michele Shoemaker |
First - Carol Carpenter | The Empress Watches Over Her Daughter |
| Second - Carol Carpenter | Betty Lou Simpson Eats a Fried Egg Sandwich |
| Third - Darcy Maloney | Sibyl's Fire Sale |
| Hm 1 - Marcia Sherman | The Last Time I Saw Paris |
| Hm 1 - LaVern McCarthy | Psychedelic Party |
| 13--Black Holes & Time Warps (Poetry) | Christine Strevinsky |
First - Carol Carpenter | The Rio Grande Gorge In Summer |
| Second - Von Bourland | Snail's Place |
| Third - Carol Carpenter | Skylight |
| Hm 1 - Caroline Sposto | Lee DeForest, Father of Radio Broadcast |
| Hm 2 - Janice Hornburg | Next Frontier |
| Hm 3 - Janice Hornburg | Gray Fossil Site |
| 14-Short Attention Span (Poetry) | Anna Lucas |
First - Linda Reising | Summons |
| Second - Carol Carpenter | A Lesson Written in Ice |
| Third - Linda Reising | Bathtub Mary |
| Hm - Alana O'Koon | Pause |
| Hm - Jessica Thompson | Along Highway 69 |
| Hm - Pamela Gibbs | Misprision |
| 15-In Search of the Found (Poetry) | Barb McMakin |
First - Von Bourland | Coyote |
| Second - Jessica Thompson | Flesh Cento |
| Third - Linda Reising | Transformation |
| Hm 1 - Cate Pearson | Incestual Polygamy, Anyone? |
| Hm 2 - Linda Reising | The Nature of Walls |
| Hm 3 - Linda Reising | Painting the Sea |
| 16-Pantoum (Poetry) | Jean Tucker |
First = Benjamin Dugger | Evil By The Numbers |
| Second = Darcy Maloney | Pantoum Circa 1991 |
| Third - Benjamin Dugger | Coming Together, Palm Sunday 1865 |
| Hm 1 - Joan Terry | Universal Tricks |
| Hm 2 - Carol Dee Meeks | Times Start to Dwindle Down |
| Hm 3 - Caroline Sposto | New England Seasons |
| 17-Simple Gifts, for Kate Hawkins (Poetry) | Barroom Bards |
First - Linda Reising | What's Left Behind |
| Second - Ellaraine Lockie | Seattle's Rite of Spring |
| Third - Janice Hornburg | August Light |
| HM - Carol Carpenter | Marquette Under Snow |
