2024 OPA Adult Contest – New Poets Category – Winners
Judge’s Overall Comments:
I admired the use of humor found in several of the entries. Also, I
commend the writers who were brave and open enough to tackle tough and sensitive issues.
JUDGE
Pattie Palmer-Baker
An artist and poet, Pattie Palmer-Baker creates collages of her poetry using calligraphy and paste paper. Nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize, and published in many journals including, Poeming Pigeons Anthologies; Voicecatcher; The Best of Voicecatcher; Bacopa Literary Review, Military Experience & the Arts; Ghazal Page; Voices, The Art and Science of Psychotherapy; Calyx; and Phantom Drift. Palmer-Baker’s work has received many awards, including First prize in the 2016 Timberline Review, First, Second, and the Bivona prize (for the best overall entry) in Ageless Authors Anthology 2019, First Prize in 2020 in the Central Oregon Writers’ Guild contest, and First prize in the 2022 Oprelle Oxbow contest. Her chapbook, The Color of Goodbye, was recently published by Kelsay Books.