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THE RUTH McDONALD

FAN FAVORITE AWARD

To honor our Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, we instituted the Ruth McDonald Fan Favorite Award. As you peruse this year’s magazine, note your favorite piece—prose, poem, or photo. The author or artist receiving the most votes will be awarded a $50 honorarium.


Submit your vote by August 16, 2026. (Please: One vote per reader.) If you have trouble with this form, please email info@lvwonline.org.


Choose from your favorite Prose, Poetry, or Artwork/Photography works to crown a winner!

Please only choose one!
PROSE - A Day for the (Story) Books
POETRY - A Fisherman’s Story
POETRY - A Quiet Exile
POETRY - A Wisconsin Farmer
ARTWORK - Allegiance
ARTWORK - American Pride
POETRY - At Ten
ARTWORK - Back Porch
ARTWORK - Bleak Mid-Winter
POETRY - Bread and Butter
ARTWORK - Colors of Summer
POETRY - Cottondale, AL
POETRY - Creek After Rain
POETRY - Ekphrasis of my father’s upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
POETRY - Euphemisms
ARTWORK - Eye Spy
PROSE - Finding Beauty
PROSE - First Job, Great Job
POETRY - First Sunburn of the Season
PROSE - Grown-Ups
ARTWORK - Hats Off
ARTWORK - Hummingbird Moth
ARTWORK - In Living Color
POETRY - In the Event There Is Life after Death
ARTWORK - I’ll Be Watching You
PROSE - I’m Not Martie!
ARTWORK - Life is Fragile
POETRY - Living in A Burning Tower
ARTWORK - Monarch Butterfly
ARTWORK - Morning Watch
POETRY - Moving On
PROSE - Nothing Comes Clean Here
POETRY - October’s End
ARTWORK - Over the Falls
ARTWORK - Petals of Yellow & Blue
POETRY - Photo in Wallet
ARTWORK - Punch’s Friend
ARTWORK - Rainbow Maker
POETRY - Running Rebirth
POETRY - Saviour
PROSE - Second First Communion
POETRY - She
PROSE - Shoe Shine
POETRY - Spiritual Matters
ARTWORK - Taking Aim
ARTWORK - Teton Pass
PROSE - The 54th Street Brunsy Showdown
ARTWORK - The Mighty Duck
ARTWORK - The Prince
PROSE - The Sixth Sense
POETRY - The fireflies devoured the moon
POETRY - There Is a Bird That Lives Inside Me
POETRY - This one is for that first car
PROSE - Tuxedo Cookies
PROSE - Valley Forge
POETRY - View from My Condo: A Mid-October Haibun
POETRY - What Remains Unsaid
POETRY - When She Died
POETRY - Wilmore Reservoir South, Late Evening with a Full Moon Rising
ARTWORK - Won’t You?
ARTWORK - You Called?
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