2009 Contest Winners

Creative Non-Fiction


1st L. Mahayla Smith, Sunday Best

2nd Brooks Clark, One More Year


Leslie Garrett Fiction

1st Marsha Brantley, The Likes of Her

2nd Pamela Schoenewaldt, Back then, in Tijuana

3rd Jennifer Barton, Grits Ain’t Groceries


Libba Moore Gray Poetry

1st Jane Sasser, Ascending

2nd Connie Jordan Green, Regret Comes to Tea, Spends the Night

3rd Arthur Stewart, Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus


Young Writers’ Poetry

1st Emily Connatser, Rhythm. Oak Ridge High School

2nd Patricia Garland, Lost Boys. Oak Ridge High School

3rd Jessica Jorda, Locomotive. Maryville High School

See Contest Guidelines for more information.
See past Career Achievement Awards.