2026 Contest Winners

Youth Categories

Art & Digital Art (ages 0-9)

1^st Place – Snowman by Calder Barton, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – Monster Fam by Nash White, Port Angeles
3^rd Place – Trumpeter Swan by Henry Gayne, Port Townsend

Art & Digital Art (ages 10-13)

1^st Place – View by Hoko Saari, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – Spring by Ailo Saari, Port Angeles
3^rd Place – Breaking Away by Elliot Gayne, Port Townsend

Art & Digital Art (ages 11-17)

1^st Place – Vampiric Stone Cathedral by Michelangelo Monet, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – Seize the Awkward by Brian Froslie, Sequim
3^rd Place – Honey Bee on Borage Plant by Emma Anderson, Sequim

Writing (ages 0-9)

1^st Place – Where I’m From by Wolf Schutz-Wade, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – Gold by Elle Kazerouninia, Sequim
3^rd  Place – Alligator Acrostic by Oscar Stratton, Sequim

Writing (ages 10-13)

1^st Place – Gold by Hoko Saari, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – What Makes Me Special by Adelaide Counts, Port Angeles
3^rd Place – My Favorite by Ailo Saari, Port Angeles

Writing (ages 14-17)

1^st Place – It’s Nice to Have a Friend by Riley Cole, Port Townsend
2^nd Place – Water by Emma Rhodes, Sequim

Peninsula College Student Categories

Art & Digital Arts

1^st Place – Medicine Pouches by Karen Sixkiller, Port Angeles
 2^nd Place – Big Dog Upstairs by Caitlyn Faircloth, Quilcene
 3^rd Place – Who Controls The Board by Karen Sixkiller, Port Angeles

Photography

1^st Place – Connection Through Reflection by Gavin Truckenmiller, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – Christmas Fire by Thomas Buscher, Sequim
3^rd Place – Dandelion Dreams by Jasmine Bailey, Sequim

Writing

1^st Place -Plucking by Ayla Pollick, Sequim
2^nd Place – Tanka #5 by Peter Duppenthaler, Port Angeles 
3^rd Place – Mother Hunger by Ayla Pollick, Sequim

Community Adult Categories

Art & Digital Art

1^st Place – Sandhill Cranes by George Seifert, Port Townsend
2^nd Place – Secrets Worlds In Trees by Loreen Matsushima, Port Angeles
3^rd Place – Buddhabrot I by Lauren Blair Churchill, Sequim

Photography

1^st Place – Jamestown Tribal Canoe Landing by Steven Jones, Sequim
2^nd Place – Kerry Girls by Marissa LeeAnn Rose, Port Angeles
3^rd Place – Trail of Light by Cyrrah Gunia, Port Angeles

Poetry

1^st Place – Monica by Rowan Heil, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – Sitting on a Cannon by John Delaney, Port Townsend
3^rd Place – Of Gods and Planets by Viola Ware, Port Angeles

Prose

1^st Place – New Fridge Instructions by Brennan Lawton, Port Angeles
2^nd Place – Port Angeles, NYE 2099 by Jon Rea, Port Angeles
3^rd Place – A Wish Upon the Harvest Moon by Heidi Hansen, Sequim

Music

1^st Place – Guitar Noir by George Seifert, Port Townsend
2^nd Place – The Fragility of Life by Lucas Saint James, Port Townsend
3^rd Place – The Weissenborn Conspiracy by George Seifert, Port Townsend