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Writing Contest Winners


The winners for the 2011 Annual Contest are:

First Place: The Narrative Voice, by Emily Gambone

Second Place: A Great Love, by Sue Granzella

Third Place: The Circus Inside Me, by Re McBride

Honorable Mention: To the Edge, by Patricia Schultheis

We sincerely thank all who submitted their stories and invite you to submit again next Feburary.


Previous Winners (2003-2011)

Hockey Night in Canada by Ariadne Hawkins

Tasty by Lauren Leatherman

Grief by Tara Cowie

Frankenvag by Erin Hart

Surviving Black Holes by Kaitlin Legg

Hellhound - Melissa Febos

Dreamer - Nora Claypool

Do You Make Gravy? - Jennifer Blomgren

Summer Waters - Julian Bentley Edelman

The Looking Glass - River Holmes-Miller

Monster Lore - Kendall Pope

September 1976 - Carolyn Butcher

Exposure - Anne Jay

The Strange Familiar - David Giffels

On Love and Language - Leonore Tija

Changing Names - Jim Gish

I Dreamed of White Cliffs -  Seetha Narayan

Change of Life – Tessa Dratt

Swimming Lessons – Suzanne LeFetra

Now You See Him, Now You Don’t – Kathleen McClung

Mexico – Melissa Petro

Traveling Garbage – M.A.C. Farrant

Red – Louis E. Bourgeois

This Is – Abby Sher

Sugar Baby – Jonathan Fine

Snow Angel – Jessica Kirzner

Marginalia – David Conal Devine

Rain Dance – Jennifer Jones

Second Chance – Ruth Edgett

The Kite Ruiner – Jenny Klien

My First Wife – Mike Maloney

In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing – Evelyn Krieger

Fairy Tales – Alma Hall

Pink Slip - Doddy Williams

Alternative Inventory of a Complicated Greif - Deborah Thompson

The Doll Test - Lisa Piorczynski

Chat – Shannon Fandler

How to Make the Bread – Gina Beltrami

Fruits of My Labor – Erika Earl

Training Wreck –Sue Z. Smith

Dreaming of Churros – Nathan Jordan

The Spell of the Moon – Lori Kennedy