Writing Contest Winners

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2010 Half Yearly Contest. Our judges would like to thank all who entered. It was an honor to read these chapters from your lives.

First Place: Hellhound by Melissa Febos

Second Place: Dreamer by Nora Claypool

Third Place: Do You Make Gravy? by Jennifer Blomgren

Honorable Mention: Summer Waters by Julian Bentley Edelman

Previous Winners (2003-2009)

The Looking Glass - River Holmes-Miller

Monster Lore - Kendall Pope

September 1976 - Carolyn Butcher

Exposure - Anne Jay

The Strange Familiar - David Giffels

On Love and Language - Leonore Tija

Changing Names - Jim Gish

I Dreamed of White Cliffs -  Seetha Narayan

Change of Life – Tessa Dratt

Swimming Lessons – Suzanne LeFetra

Now You See Him, Now You Don’t – Kathleen McClung

Mexico – Melissa Petro

Traveling Garbage – M.A.C. Farrant

Red – Louis E. Bourgeois

This Is – Abby Sher

Sugar Baby – Jonathan Fine

Snow Angel – Jessica Kirzner

Marginalia – David Conal Devine

Rain Dance – Jennifer Jones

Second Chance – Ruth Edgett

The Kite Ruiner – Jenny Klien

My First Wife – Mike Maloney

In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing – Evelyn Krieger

Fairy Tales – Alma Hall

Pink Slip - Doddy Williams

Alternative Inventory of a Complicated Greif - Deborah Thompson

The Doll Test - Lisa Piorczynski

Chat – Shannon Fandler

How to Make the Bread – Gina Beltrami

Fruits of My Labor – Erika Earl

Training Wreck –Sue Z. Smith

Dreaming of Churros – Nathan Jordan

The Spell of the Moon – Lori Kennedy