Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading

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courtesy Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters

A collage of the 2024 'Wisconsin People & Ideas' Fiction and Poetry Contest winners.

The 2024 'Wisconsin People & Ideas' Fiction and Poetry Contest winners (from left): Bob Wake, C.E. Perry, Linda Falkenstein, Diya Abbas, Han Raschka, Lisa Vihos.

Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine (a publication of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters) hosts an annual call for unpublished short fiction and poetry by Wisconsin residents, and this reading honors this year’s winning submissions. First place in fiction was earned by Cambridge Book Review Press publisher Bob Wake (also a first place winner in 2017); second place goes to the first short story by Madison poet/novelist C.E. Perry; and third was captured by Isthmus' own associate editor Linda Falkenstein. UW First Wave student Diya Abbas placed first in the poetry competition, with Madison poet Han Raschka runner-up and Sheboygan poet laureate Lisa Vihos third.

media release: Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture, presents a Wisconsin Book Festival reading featuring the winners of the statewide 2024 Fiction & Poetry Contests. 

2024 Fiction and Poetry Contest Winners

Fiction:

1st place: “Mending Ruth” – Bob Wake, Cambridge

2nd Place: “Baby Teeth” – C.E. Perry, Madison

3rd Place: “Complications from a Fall” – Linda Falkenstein, Madison

Poetry:

1st place: “Al-Eashiq” – Diya Abbas, Madison

2nd Place: “grand(father) sheds his grudges” – Han Raschka, Madison

3rd Place: “Bodies of Water” – Lisa Vihos, Sheboygan