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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”Gobbell, 3rd prize for The Major’s Wife.

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”

Nonfiction
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”.