Announcing 2024 PhotoFinish Winner & Finalists

We are happy to announce the winner, and finalists of our 2024 PhotoFinish competition. Each year we dedicate an entire issue to our photo prompt responses, with the winner, and all finalists being published.

This time around, we ultimately selected Sandra Fees’ poem, "Jute" as the 2024 IHLR PhotoFinish winner. Sandra Fees lives in southeastern Pennsylvania where she is a Unitarian Universalist minister and past poet laureate of Berks County, PA. Her poetry has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Nimrod, River Heron Review and Witness, among others. Her first full-length collection, Wonderwork, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books in early 2025. 

Sandra fees, 2024 IHLR PhotoFinish Winner

Congratulations to Sandra Fees, and all our finalists!

Finalists:

Kelly Granito, “Strawberries” (poetry)

Farah Art Griffin, “Confessions of the Rope” (poetry)

Susan Carroll Jewell, “The God of Rope” (poetry)

Barbara Krasner, “Self-Satisfaction” (nonfiction)

BV Lawson, “Clean House” (fiction)

Lisa Mullenneaux, “So Close” (poetry)

Purbasha Roy, “Meaning” (poetry)

Mary Tabor, “Dance” (nonfiction)

Dawn Tasaka Steffler, “Afternoon Nap” (fiction)

To read some of our previous PhotoFinish issues, click here