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.

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

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

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

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

WI People & Ideas Poetry and Fiction Contest Winners