Winner of the Virginia Writers Club Golden Nib,
2nd Place for Fiction for short story in State of Virginia ,
"I did everything"
Recognized by the Virginia Writers Club, Golden Nib,
Tier One Prize in Poetry, 1st Place for poem
"Metaphorical Transformation"
Recognized by the Virginia Writers Club, Golden Nib,
Tier One Prize in Fiction, 1st place for short story for "I did everything"
Poems by Marilynn Deane Mendell
The Journal of the Virginia Writers Club
Sophia M. Starnes and Virginia Poet Laureate Emirita:
A Lampshade or a Doorknob, The Color Wheel, Tend to Your Own Knitting, If Ye have Faith.
Summer 2026
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Spring 2026
Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: Headwaters
Spring 2026
Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: Autumn Day One
Spring 2026
Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: Destiny
Spring 2026
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Poem: Perceived Security
Winter 2025
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Winter 2025
Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: Loretta the Ineluctable
Fall 2025
Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: Eunoia
Fall 2025
Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: The Keeper
Fall 2025
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Fall 2025
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
September 2025
The Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Fall 2025
Virginia Writers Club
Poem: Metaphorical Transformation
August 2025
Recognized by the Virginia Writers Club, Golden Nib, Tier One Prize in Poetry, 1st Place, August 2025
Virginia Writers Club
Short Story: I Did Everything
August 2025
Recognized by the Virginia Writers Club, Golden Nib, Tier One Prize in Fiction, 1st Place, August 2025
Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Summer 2025
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Summer 2025
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
April 2025, page 5
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Spring 2025, page 39
"Your poem was a foundational poem in this issue. I need a few poems as
powerful as yours in each issue
to keep in the reader's minds
what is really happening before
our eyes."
Charles Portolano, editor
The Avocet - Fall 2025
Drunken Bees and passion vine, as mentioned in
poem Loretta the Ineluctable
