The International Wizard of Oz Club announced the 2025 winners of our annual art and writing contests Saturday, July 19th at Oz, the National Convention held in Aberdeen, SD.
Fiction (Fred Otto Prize)
First Place: Four Friends of Oz
Jesse Jury – Mount Vernon, WA
Second Place: Who’s Got the Button?
J. L. Bell – Newton, MA
Non-Fiction (C. Warren Hollister Prize)
First Place: An Essential Quickening: John R. Neill and the Art of Oz
Rachel Graham – Bedford, UK
Second Place: Project Ozma
Cynthia Twohy Ragni – San Marcos, CA
Art (Rob Roy MacVeigh Prize)
First Place: Dorothy and the Cyclone
Jime Wimmer – Savannah, GA
Second Place: Ruth and her Friends in Oz
Rob. Lauer – Suffolk, VA
Thanks to all those who entered. All contest submissions have been forwarded to the appropriate editors for consideration in future Oz Club publications.