[Gail White]

The votes are now tabulated, and there seems no need to keep up suspense. So -- the envelope, please!

Based on popular voting, the TOP THREE WINNERS of the 2013 Sonnet Bake-off are:

1. REQUITED LOVE by Matthew Buckley Smith (136 points)
2. LAST DANCE by Stephen T. Harvey (76 points)
3. CHILDHOOD by Elise Hempel (59 points)

Alex Pepple will contact the winning poets regarding publication of their sonnets.
Congratulations to them, and to all the finalists who are listed below:

FINALISTS (IN ORDER OF POSTING)

1. Elise Hempel (Childhood)
2. Jesse Anger (The Keepsake)
3. Diane Arnson Svartlien (On the Ubiquity of Mobile Devices)
4. Robert Crawford (Calypso Calls on Penelope)
5. Tim Murphy (Mower's Song)
6. Matthew Buckley Smith (Requited Love)
7. Janice Soderling (Film Noir)
8. Marly Youmans (The Baby and the Bathwater)
9. Stephen T. Harvey (Last Dance)
10, Peter Spagnuolo (For Two Lindens Newly Planted on Avenue D)


Also to be congratulated are the
HONORABLE MENTIONS (in alphabetical order by author)

Dave Condell - "Marvin"
Anna Evans - "Tornado Sky"
Claudia Gary - "Desserted"
Peter Goulding - "The Church of the Battered Biscuit Tin"
Simon Hunt - "Aubade: Auburn"
Siham Karami - "Distances"
Austin MacRae - "The Guest Room"
Mary McLean - "New Parents at Feng Sushi"
Donald Sheehy - "A Pine Parabolic"
Geertjan Wielenga - "A Bad Day for Kafka"

Finally, the judges' personal choices will be given in separate entries..

Thanks to all who entered and made the 2013 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off a success.