Special to the Northwest Florida Daily News/USA TODAY NETWORK
NICEVILLE Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) announced winners of the 35th annual James and Christian LaRoche Memorial Poetry Contest and the Blackwater Review art and literature journal for 2021.
Fiona Morris of Santa Rosa Beach won first place and a cash prize of $100 for her poem Summers in the Screen Room. Madison Gray of Freeport placed second with her poem Mea Culpa. Gray will be awarded a cash prize of $50.
Two poems tied for third place with a cash prize of $25 each. Carter Hyde of Fort Walton Beach tied with his poem Prayer for Dionysus at a Party. In addition to winning the first-place prize, Morris tied for third place with her poem Seed, Berry, Love.