First Place - Something Like That River |
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Douglas Campbell's fiction has appeared online and in print, in publications such as Literary Potpourri, FlashMe Magazine, Everyday Fiction, and Jabberwocky. His flash fiction, "Accidents" won the 2007 flash fiction contest held by the journal Many Mountains Moving, and his story "The Last Drop" won second place in The Shine Journal's 2008 flash fiction competition. He is currently working on and close to completing a young adult novel. Douglas is employed at West Virginia University, and he lives, writes, runs, and plays his guitar in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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Second Place – Keys |
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Born to adventurers, Jonna has lived many places including a homestead above Kachemak Bay, and in remote Inupiat villages; she currently resides in Juneau where the mountains meet the sea and rain provides a steady soundtrack - when it isn't snowing. Jonna's award winning essays chronicle her early experiences in Alaska. She and her peripatetic family continue to live and work throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Jonna has completed her first book of fiction Tapping Light and is currently at work on her second novel, Feathered Edge.
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Third Place - Gettin' Above My Raisin' |
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Former college president Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler has published widely in academics and creative writing. Editor,poet,fiction/creative nonfiction writer, and playwright, she has published several chapbooks and won The Pittsburgh Quarterly's Hay Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Hemley Award, and Asphodel's Poetry Contest and tied for first place in Kalliope's Elkind Contest. One story appears in Del Sol's Best of 2004 Butler Prize Anthology; another won the 2006 Abroad Writers Contest/Fellowship (France).A novel will soon join her novella and short-story collection, and she was named 2007 Writer of the Year by California's elizaPress. A play on Frost was a Pinter Review Prize for Drama Silver Medalist, and she won the 2008 Pearson Award at Wayne State for a play on the Iraq wars. She is a native North Carolinian and has, with her husband, traveled around the world five times, writing all the way.
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Fourth Place – Kiss of Death |
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Michael Power's short stories have been published in various on-line and print journals and his first novel "The Zoo" was published in March, 2009. In addition to novels and short stories he also writes songs that he performs with the alternative rock band, Late Model Humans. He lives in New York City with his wife, son and cats. Find out more at www.michaelpowernyc.com.
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