Writing and Art Award Winners
2024- 2025 Award Winners
2024- 2025 Pageturners Art Award
Winner: Reese Frayer
Inspiration: Tin Camp Road by Ellen Airgood
(Pageturners Book, March 2025)
2023 Award Winners
2023 Pageturners Art Award
Winner: Angelito Robles
Inspiration: True Biz by Sara Novic
(Pageturners Book, November 2022)
2022 Award Winners
2022 Pageturners Writing Award
Winner: Madison Jajuga
Inspiration: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
(Pageturners Book, March 2022)
2022 Pageturners Art Award Winners
Winner: Jayne Harju
Inspiration: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
(Pageturners Book, March 2022)
2021 Award Winners
2021 Pageturners Art Award
Winner: Angelito Robles
Inspiration: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
(Pageturners Book, September 2020)
2020 Award Winners
2020 Pageturners Writing Award
Winner: Sierra Messer
Entry: Learning from a Crisis
Inspiration: What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha
(Pageturners Book, March 2020)
2020 Pageturners Art Award
Winner: Miki Taguchi
Entry: Damsel in Distress
Inspiration: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
(Pageturners Book, January 2020)
2019 Award Winners
2019 Pageturners Writing Award
Winner: Madisyn Bobby
Inspiration: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Entry: Should I Stay?
(Pageturners Book, February 2019)
2019 Pageturners Art Award
Winner: Yeseul Ha
Entry: Strings
Inspiration: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
(Pageturners Book, February 2019)
2018 Award Winners
2018 Pageturners Writing Award
Winner: Madisyn Bobby
Entry: Me Before You
Inspiration: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
(Pageturners Book, February 2018)
2018 Pageturners Art Award
Winner: Mikayla Jones
Entry: True Colors
Inspiration: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
(Pageturners Book, February 2018)
2017 Award Winners
2017 Pageturners Writing Award
Winner: Brendan Cooper
Entry: Life at Its Core
Inspiration: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
(Pageturners Book, March 2017)
2017 Pageturners Art Award Winners
First Prize Winner: Michele Dimond
Entry: Paper Places
Inspiration: Paper Towns by John Green
(Pageturners Book, February 2017)
Second Prize Winner: Mallory Hudak
Entry: Transitions
Inspiration: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
(Pageturners Book, March 2017)
Honorable Mention: Tori Greene
Entry: Hang Up, Leona
Inspiration: Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher
(Pageturners Book, September 2016)
2016 Award Winners
2016 Pageturners Writing Award
Co-Winner: Nicole Saez
Entry: The Beauty in (Wall)Flowers
Inspiration: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
(Pageturners Book, February 2016)
Co-Winner: Danielle Bushaw
Entry: The Prophet’s Mother
Inspiration: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
(Pageturners Book, November 2015)
2016 Pageturners Art Award Winner
Winner: Tori Greene
Entry: Product of Frankenstein
Inspiration: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
(Pageturners Book, October 2015)
2015 Award Winners
2015 Pageturners Writing Award Winner
Winner: Zachary Hay
Entry: Miller’s People: An Analysis of A View from the Bridge
Inspiration: A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
(Pageturners Book, January 2015)
2015 Pageturners Art Award Winners
First Prize Winner: Diane Gulick
Entry: Pathway of Life
Inspiration: PT books read in Winter 2015
Second Prize Winner: Lynda Shimbo
Entry: Stains
Inspiration: A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
(Pageturners Book, January 2015)
2014 Award Winners
2014 Pageturners Writing Award Winner
Winner: Sayrd Stack
Entry: Prayers to God: A Tale of Family Secrets
Inspiration: Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg
(Pageturners Book, January 2014)
Second Prize Winner: Haley Babij
Entry: The Voice of Wealth
Inspiration: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Pageturners Book, February 2014)
2014 Pageturners Art Award Winner
Winner: Liam McGuire
Entry: Daphne
Inspiration: Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
(Pageturners Book, March 2014)
2013 Award Winners
2013 Pageturners Writing Award Winners
First Prize Winner: Meghan Montgomery Jones
Entry: Song Bird
Inspiration: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
(Pageturners Book, September 2012)
Second Prize Winner: Laura Caruso
Entry: Wild World
Inspiration: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
(Pageturners Book, March 2013)
Third Prize Winner: Kasey B. Zadorozny
Entry: True Love
Inspiration: Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
(Pageturners Book, February 2013)
2013 Pageturners Art Award Winner
Winner: Jo’El Liberati
Entry: Holly Golightly
Inspiration: Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
(Pageturners Book, February 2013)
2012 Award Winners
2012 Pageturners Art Award Winners
2012 Pageturners Art Award Winners
First Prize Winner: Phyllis Hamrick
Entry: Two Ducks
Inspiration: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
(Pageturners book, February 2012)
Second Prize Winner: Robert Paquette Jr.
Entry: Binding Love
Inspiration: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
(Pageturners book, February 2012)
Third Prize Winner: Teodora A. Bajramaj
Entry: Are You Happy?
Inspiration: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(Pageturners book, January 2012)
2011 Award Winners
2011 Pageturners Writing Award Winner
Winner: Leah Esslinger
Entry: Dreaming, Sometimes of Sheep
Inspiration: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
(Pageturners book, February 2011)
2011 Pageturners Art Award Winner
Winner: Ashi Arora
Entry: The Five Great Lakes: A Beautiful Place for Women
Inspiration: Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes by Alison Swan, Editor
(Pageturners book, March 2011)
2010 Award Winners
2010 Pageturners Writing Award Winner
Winner: Kathryn Stachura
Entry: Needed: Creative Minds
Inspiration: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
(Pageturners book, October 2008)
2010 Pageturners Art Award Winner
Winner: Catherine Donovan
Entry: Forgiveness?
Inspiration: The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
(Pageturners book, September 2009)