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The results are in! Over the next couple days LOA will release the winners and runners up of the four different categories of the 2026 Wright Prize! “Globemaster” by Layle Keane Chambers won the Poetry by a Military Family Member award. Of Chambers’s piece guest judge Jackie Spinner said, “This poem captures the strange emotional geography of military deployment through fragments of place names, bad connections, dropped pins and one-word messages. “I stand at the start of a 5K, you a war” is a terrific line because it establishes the enormous distance between two people who are still trying to maintain a relationship. It’s a beautifully compressed portrait of deployment.” In second place, “Connecticut” and “Legionnaire’s Son” by Brenda Quinn. And in third place is "Vacillating Faith” by Chris White. Congrats to all of you!