Knoxville Writers' Guild
- Contests 2012
For further information, please contact the Contests Coordinator.
2011 Contest Winners
We are happy to announce the winners for the 2011 Knoxville Writer's Guild Contests. In order to give every entrant an equal chance, all contests were judged without those judging being aware of who submitted the entry. Now, please consider entering your best work in the 2012 Contests! To read our 2012 Contest Guidelines, please click here. To see our contest sponsors,click here.
Blogs
Jo Ann Pantanizopoulos
Honorable Mention to Kimberly Vargas Pipes, Alan Sims, and Judy Blackstock.
Young Poets
1st Place - Katie Brick “To the Garden”
2nd Place - Kurt Smith “A Start at Sunset”
3rd Place Alysse Riggs “Hopeful”
Honorable Mention to Kurt Smith “Do You See”, and Katie Landmesser “The Balloon and His Girl”
Flash Fiction
1st Place - Jane Sasser “Solve For X”
2nd Place - Jennifer Pinkus “The Quilt Show”
3rd Place - Christine Johnson “She Eats Figs Like Candy”
Honorable Mention to John J White “Janet”, and Jennifer Pinkus “Frozen Chicken”
Non-Fiction
1st Place - Cindy S. Butts “Drama In Motion”
2nd Place - Phyllis Gobbell “What We Keep and What We Throw Away”
3rd Place - Stephanie Veitch “Sorry and the A Bomb”
Honorable Mention to Judy Lee Green “The Big Table”, Pam Strickland “I Think They Call It Queer” and Jack Rentfro “Dumpster Honey”.
Poetry
1st Place - Jane Sasser “Thursday Morning Prayers”
2nd Place - Jane Sasser “Walter”
3rd Place - Adria Amos “Mud and Mimicry”
Honorable Mention to Liz McGeachy for “Cold Easter” and “Give Me Your Morning Words”.
Novella or Novel Excerpt
1st Place - Don Williams “Great Mountains Burning”
2nd Place - Kurt Kamm “Code Blood”
3rd Place - John J. White “Nisei”
Honorable Mention to Mark Freeman “A World of Their Own”, Thomas Zuzich “The Headhunters” and Robin J. Green “Evelyn”
Fiction
1st Place - June Venable “Seasons”
2nd Place - Florence Rogers “Spring Thaw”
3rd Place - Murray Edwards “Jumping Off the Sunshine Bridge”
Honorable Mention to Jennifer Ricks “Chained To Fate” and Suzanna Werkema “Three Days”.
The Knoxville Writers' Guild sponsors the following annual literary contests with more than $1,200 in prizes for poetry, fiction, and essays. Enter as many of these contests as you like for the 2012 competition. Previous contest winners can be viewed on the Career Achievement Award page for each year.
KWG Award for Poetry, in honor of Libba Moore Gray
KWG Award for Fiction, in honor of Leslie Garrett
KWG Young Writers' Prize in Poetry
KWG Prize for Creative Nonfiction
KWG Prize for
Novel Excerpts
KWG Prize for One Act Play/ Script
Winners
from previous contests: 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009,
2010, 2011
For more about KWG contests, visit www.knoxvillewritersguild.org or write
to “Contests” at PO Box 10326, Knoxville, TN 37939.
For further information, please contact the Contests
Coordinator.