2010 Contest Results

Our thanks to all of you for participating in our writing contest, and we’re sorry for any disappointment you might feel at not having your work selected for publication—some of us here are writers, too, so we know not getting in an issue isn’t a pleasant experience. We received 897 submissions to this year’s contest, and following are the winner and runners-up, all of whom will receive publication


Winner

Luke Fiske, “Peace Comes to Those Who Wait” story

Runners-up

Megan Baxter, "The Deer Hunter" poem

Destiny Birdsong, "Switch" poem

Deborah Brown, "The Stalled Bus" poem

Eric Bourland, "The dancing police" poem

Lynne Martin Bowman, "Because the Body Remembers" poem

Karen J. Coates, "An Eternal Harvest" essay

Emari DiGiorgio, "The Day My Grandmother Died" poem

Lisa Dordal, "So Long in Coming" poem

Stephanie Gehring, "December" poem

Honoree Fannone Jeffers, "Spring Place Plantation (Georgia, 1811)" poem

Ember Johnson, "Vigil" story

Tamara Linse, "Wanting" story

Ravi Shankar, "Descent with Modification" poem

Denice Turner, "Principles of Internal Medicine" prose

Philip Weitl, "Archeology" essay

Lori Wilson, "A Swallowtail Lies on Its Side, Wings Folded--" poem