Okay, well you don’t actually get a chicken dinner, but you do get some bragging rights. Here’s a breakdown of all our amazing winners in the 2022 Columnist Contest (for works created in 2021):
Editorial Cartoon
First Place – Sage Stossel, The Boston Globe
Social Justice
First Place – John W. Fountain, Chicago Sun-Times
Second Place – Suzette Hackney, USA Today
Third Place – Derrick Z. Jackson, Union of Concerned Scientists
Crisis Commentary
First Place – Trudy Rubin, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Second Place – Derrick Z. Jackson, Union of Concerned Scientists
Third Place – Max McCoy, Kansas Reflector
Lifestyles
First Place – Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times
Second Place – Rose Carmen Goldberg, Los Angeles Times & San Diego Union-Tribune
Third Place – Michael J. Stern, USA Today
Honorable Mentions – Patricia Bunin, Southern California News Group; Kelly Kazek, Mobile Press-Register (AL); Luke Ovgard, Herald and News
Sports
First Place – Derrick Z. Jackson, Andscape & The American Prospect
Second Place – Rick Morrissey, Chicago Sun-Times
Third Place – Rick Telander, Chicago Sun-Times
Humor – Online
First Place – Denise Thiery, Levity & Brevity at LevityBrevity.com
Second Place – Mary Kay Jordan Fleming, Little Old Lady Comedy & Erma Bombeck Writing Workshop Blog
Third Place – Dave Jaffe, HumorOutcasts.com & Sleeping Between Giants: Life, If You Could Call It That, With A Terrier
Honorable Mention – Rebecca Jill Agiewich, The Ambivalent Part-Time Expat
Humor – Print
First Place – Kelly Kazek, Birmingham News & The Huntsville Times (AL)
Second Place – Jase Graves, Kilgore News Herald (TX)
Third Place – Bill Ervolino, The Bergen Record (NJ)
Honorable Mention – Betsy Bitner, Times Union (Albany, NY); Anneli Byrd, The Standard Examiner (Ogden, UT)
General – Online
First Place – Jessica Leigh Lebos, Savannah Sideways (GA)
Second Place – Gordon Hopkins, Fairbury Journal-News (NE)
Third Place – Daniela V. Gitlin, Always Happy To Spout Off at danielagitlin.com
Honorable Mention – Kristin Clark Taylor, USA Today
General – Print
First Place – Leslie McCarthy, Webster-Kirkwood Times (MO)
Second Place – Rebecca Regnier, Monroe News
Third Place – Roy Gutterman, Syracuse.com & The Post Standard
Honorable Mention – Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times; Theodore W. Decker, The Columbus Dispatch; Renee Horton, Arizona Daily Star
