Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.

Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.

Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.

Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.Anne Marie Wells | writer. editor. creator.
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Poetry Publications

Award Winners

Make a Wish, Darling

Winner 2024 Poetry in Transit Contest

 

Cherimoya

Winner 2023 Maryland Writer's Association Poetry Contest

Long-list 2024 Erbacce Prize

Pushcart Prize nominee


Cherry blossoms lights...

2023 Winner of the DC Public Library Haiku Contest


Sharing

Winner 2023 JH Poetry Box Contest


Let the Crows Fly Away With Our Eyes

Winner 2021 Crow House Press Poetry Contest

Finalist 2021 SixFold Poetry Contest


He sits at the table...,  

Second Place 2024 Sejong Cultural Society Sijo Contest 


Like a Snail I'll Taste the World an Inch at a Time

Third Place 2023 Valiant Scribe Let There Be Light Poetry Competition 

Retracted Winner 2023 Kenan Ince Memorial Prize in Poetry


Remnants

Third Place 2022 SixFold Poetry Contest


Eta Canis Minoris

Third Place 2022 SixFold Poetry Contest


The Orange Glowed

Third Place 2022 SixFold Poetry Contest


Catholicism Lingers in a Concrete Poem 

Third Place 2022 SixFold Poetry Contest  


When Cicadas Emerge From Their Netherworld
Third Place 2024 SixFold Poetry Contest 

2024 Pushcart Prize Nominee


Always Her Baby. Always His Mama

Third Place 2024 SixFold Poetry Contest


Banana cream pie had never tempted me to bury...
Third Place 2024 SixFold Poetry Contest


Ever After Alive at Wegmans. SixFold, 2024. 

Third Place 2024 SixFold Poetry Contest 


Collage of Thoughts 

Third Place 2024 SixFold Poetry Contest

Long List 2024 Erbacce Prize


Mama's Meatballs

Honorable Mention 2024 Poetry Catalog Spring Poetry Contest


Mothers

Honorable Mention 2024 The Prose Poem Spring Short Contest


A Three-Foot Wide Dream

Judge's Choice 2023 Renard Press Kinship Anthology Contest


Dandelion breaks through... 

Judge's Choice 2023 City of Alexandria Haiku Contest


Grief is the Ghost

Editor's Pick 2021 Brain Mill Press


O Villain, My Friend

Editor's Pick 2020 Brain Mill Press


Fetch

Commended 2024 The Prose Poem Spring Short Contest 


11:15 PM

Finalist 2021 SixFold Poetry Contest


Gravestone Flowers

Finalist 2021 SixFold Poetry Contest


Miscarriage I

Finalist 2023 SixFold Poetry Contest 


Miscarriage II

Finalist 2023 SixFold Poetry Contest 

Long-listed for 2023 Erbacce Prize 


Salt

Finalist 2023 SixFold Poetry Contest


Infinite What Ifs

Finalist 2023 SixFold Poetry Contest


[I’m crying in a sandwich shop reading Diane Seuss’ sonnets]

Finalist 2022 SixFold Poetry Contest


[Dumbo broke my heart as a child]

Finalist 2022 SixFold Poetry Contest


[I drive home from the sandwich shop, tymbals vibrating with a crescendo]

Finalist 2022 SixFold Poetry Contest


Portrait, 2020

Finalist 2021 SixFold Poetry Contest


Clam Chowder
Finalist 2022 MacQueen's Quinterly Poetry Contest


Celastrina ladon

Finalist 2023 SixFold Poetry Contest


Forest of One
Finalist 2023 SixFold Poetry Contest 


Apple Rain

Long List 2024 Erbacce Prize 


Devoured

Long List 2024 Erbacce Prize


Eleanor: Ekphrasis II

Long List 2024 Erbacce Prize


Perimenopause

Long List 2023 Erbacce Prize

Other Publications

A Fig Tree of My Own. Beyond the Veil Press, 2022.

A Leader Was Born. Third Estate Art, 2021.

A Question of Origin. Other Worldly Women Press, 2020.

Am I still… Passengers Journal, 2020.

Cactus. DASH, 2022.

Cha-Ching. Lucky Jefferson, 2020.

The Cure. Skylight 47, 2020.

Dandelion. Angel City Review, 2020.

Elegy. Anansi Writers Anthology, 2022.

En Garde. Soliloquies Anthology, 2020.

Enemy Bridge. Muddy River Poetry Review, 2020.

Finding the Most True Truth. Platform Review, 2022.

Grieving. Meniscus Literary Journal, 2020.

Halfway. Turbulence & Coffee, 2021.

Hard to Read: Part II. Metro Weekly, July 2021.

The Heron Knew What the Herring Did, Too. Bi Women Quarterly, 2021.

I Love You, Too, Cowboy. The Round Magazine, 2022.

I Now Know. Passengers Journal, 2020.

I’ll Have to Walk Home Without Him. Muddy River Poetry Review, 2020.

Inadequate Materials. Courtship of the Winds, 2023.

It Was an Accident. Voices de la Luna, 2022. Reprinted in Courtship of the Winds, 2023. 

Last Week of April. Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, 2024.

Love Well. Muddy River Poetry Review, 2020.

Maybe I’m Doing Okay. The Voices Project, 2020.

Me Too. Wingless Dreamer, 2020.

Moon Flower Lives. Snarl, 2022.

Mx. Lonelyhearts Goes in Search of Sound. Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, 2024.

Not Meant for Catacombs. Ninth Letter, 2021.

Old Growth. Other Worldly Women Press, 2020.

The Orange Glowed. Deraciné, 2022.

Prairie Fire. Wild Roof Journal, 2021.

Prayers. In Parentheses, 2020.

Press Play. Lemonspouting, 2021.

Rain Cloud, A Day Before Spring. Jackson Hole Poetry Box, 2021.

Relative to Ancestor. Passengers Journal, 2020.

Remains. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021.

Rural Legend. Fox Paw Literary Blog, 2021.

Shell. In Parentheses, 2020.

Sometimes You Have to Lose to Win. Variant Literature, 2020.

Spring Flurry. Coastal Shelf, 2020.

Sting. Changing Womxn Collective, 2020.

Stone-faced. Unlimited Literature, 2020.

Success. Other Worldly Women Press, 2020.

To Me. Poets’ Choice, 2020.

Trying. The Madison Review, 2025.

Violet Avenue. Stone Canoe, 2023. 

Wapiti. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021.

Watering the Dead. Steam Ticket, 2022.

Wave Away. Alchemy Literary Journal, 2020.

You Asked Me to Write You a Poem About Coffee. The MacGuffin, 2022. Reprinted in Courtship of the Winds, 2023.

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