The Preservation
Foundation, Inc.
WRITER'S SHOWCASE
NONFICTION
Note: Our nonfiction stories are cataloged by this year's last contest closing date of October 31
2023 Stories
- March
- AnimalStory
Beata Stasak
One Old Man and One Old Kangaroo
- AnimalStory
Robert Flournoy
Snake Encounter
- AnimalStory
Beata Stasak
I Spend My Time on This Earth Doing My Bit. That's All I Can Do
- AnimalStory
Abbie Creed
The Neighborhood Celebrity
- AnimalStory
Mort Morford
It Was The Summer of 1980
- Winners Circle
Maureen Moynihan
Skinny White Girl
- AnimalStory
James L. Cowles
Goosed
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Biographical
Roger Barbee
Carpe Diem
- AnimalStory
Christin Kaiser
Oh, Deer!
- Winners Circle
Giles Ryan
Lutful
- Winners Circle
Giles Ryan
Nightwalker
- Amanya Aklam
The Blind Cow and the Unbothered Owner
- AnimalStory
James Osborne
Dragonflies and the Great Blue Heron
- AnimalStory
Fred Chaney
Songs
- James Osborne
Our Filly Was A 'Night-Mare'
- AnimalStory
Roger Barbee
A Bush, Bumblebees, and a Butterfly
- AnimalStory
Zary Fekete
Murine Steps
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Biographical
Chaitanyamoi Chetia
I Chimed A Metal Bowl
-
Biographical
Chaitanyamoi Chetia
The Suprise Day With My Bicycle
-
Biographical
Chaitanyamoi Chetia
Section E
- February
- Winners Circle
Linda Dougherty
Finding Elzada
- Winners Circle
Valerie Forde-Galvin
West Quincy Story
-
Biographical
Naoma Moody
Walking Home From School
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Biographical
Chaitanyamoi Chetia
Tea Set
- Winners Circle
Maureen Moynihan
The Cookie Lady
- Winners Circle
Valerie Byron
The Secret
- Winners Circle
Maureen Moynihan
Hello, Again
- Winners Circle
Lesley Mukwacha
Seventeen Guides and a Lioness
- Winners Circle
Valerie Byron
Man Of My Dreams
- Winners Circle
Lesley Mukwacha
When The Lions Visit
- Winners Circle
Maureen Moynihan
The John (revised)
-
Biographical
Erik Tillman Ferguson
Dinner With Mel
-
Biographical
Robert Flournoy
Random Thoughts, Looking Back Along The Way
-
Biographical
Chaitanyamoi Chetia
The Golden Ring and the Horseshoe
-
Biographical
Robert Flournoy
Family Vacation and Fate
- Winners Circle
Lesley Mukwacha
Inviting Trouble
- Winners Circle
Lesley Mukwacha
Regina, The Strange Lion
- Ezra Azra
Bullies
- Chaitanyamoi Chetia
I Love Clock From My Childhood
- Lauren Barrett
Believe Me
- Winners Circle
Giles Ryan
White Envelope
- Winners Circle
Sara Etgen-Baker
The Thornback and the Red-Headed Man
- January
- Winners Circle
Giles Ryan
Portrait of a Young Woman - July 17, 1793
- Winners Circle
Sara Etgen-Baker
Prinuse Me
- Winners Circle
Sara Etgen-Baker
La Profesora de Ingles
- Winners Circle
Giles Ryan
The Witness Tree
- Winners Circle
Sara Etgen-Baker
Life With The Butterfly Whisperer
- Winners Circle
Fredrick Hudgin
A Call in the Middle of the Night
- Ezra Azra
Most Evil Assassination Ever
-
Biographical
Elliot Wilner
Street Crime: Memories Of Life On 28th Street
- Winners Circle
Valerie Forde-Galvin
The Wolf Ate Grandma
- Winners Circle
Valerie Byron
Pumpkin
-
Biographical
Terry Mulcahy
The Things I Did To Survive
- TravelStory
Elliot Wilmer
Rescue From Machu Picchu>
-
Biographical
Terry Mulcahy
South Valley Sweat
- Karen Radford Treanor
Pages From A Political Activist's Diary
- Ezra Azra
Plutarch's Prejudice
- Ezra Azra
Best Time in our Ghetto
- Ezra Azra
The Farm on the Red Hill
- Ezra Azra
When Fear Turned Into Fun
- Ezra Azra
George Orwell, 1903 - 1950
- Karen Radford Treanor
A Quaker Summer
- Pat Mann
How Does One Properly Inter A Coon?
- Terry Mulcahy
Sugar Babies
- Ezra Azra
The Neighbor's Story
- Henry Lansing Woodward
The Dutiful Nevada Wife
- Ezra Azra
The Best Ever Good Friday
- Henry Lansing Woodward
The Elevator Game
- Ezra Azra
Brighton Beach
- Ezra Azra
Brando's Lost Movie
- Ezra Azra
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- December
- Terry Mulcahy
Ocean City Took My Breath Away
- Sam DeLeo
Dead Dogs
- Milton Cust
The Stolen Bride
- Ezra Azra
The Things We Do
- Ezra Azra
Comeuppance
- Ezra Azra
Our Father Will Not
- Freda Wooten
A Season To Remember
- Ezra Azra
Cemetery Shenanigans
- Thomas Turman
Crossing Into Ghana
- Ezra Azra
Hornets to the Rescue
- Ezra Azra
My Gum Tree
- Ezra Azra
Adventures on the River
- November
- Ezra Azra
Bluebottles To The Rescue
- Henry Lansing Woodward
Code Three
- Lew Goddard
When I Was Young Yesterday
- Deon Matzen
Will The Real Santa Please Stand Up?
- TravelStory
Steven Zhong
A Good Trip Takes a Bad Turn
- Terry Mulcahy
The Kilala
- Terry Mulcahy
Breaking Down Carnivals
- Ezra Azra
Kotrajym
- Winners Circle
Fredrick Hudgin
When Is A Kiss Not A Kiss
- Winners Circle
Fredrick Hudgin
Get Them OFF!
- Ezra Azra
Zarathushthra Spitama
- James L. Cowles
A Moving Experience
- Winners Circle
Valerie Byron
The Runaway Dog
- Noah Xia
Brotherly Love
-
Biographical
Robert Flournoy
First Love
- Winners Circle
Karen Radford Treanor
Remembrance Day, November 11, 2022
-
Biographical
Kelly Maida
You Are Not Lost!
2022 Stories
- October
- TravelStory
Rianna Chhabra
Wherever We Go
- Judith Nakken
A Sonnet for Joyce Kilmer
- TravelStory
Nayona Nag
The Magnificent Tiger at Pench
- TravelStory
Gomathi Sridevi
Coming Together With Pandemic
- TravelStory
Divya Harshitha Sadanala
The Indigenous
- TravelStory
Okparaoyibo Chukwuma Paul
The Journey
- TravelStory
Martina Preston
Understanding
- TravelStory
Martin Nyondo
Into The Less Known Malape
- TravelStory
Sharanya Sivasathiyanathan
A Day to Remember: Of Coins and a Clear Conscience
- TravelStory
Hilary Bryn Thomas
Travel Solo, Not Alone: Part 2, Peru and Beyond
- TravelStory
Nahida Jaman
Discovering My Soul
- TravelStory
Ruchi Acharya
Taking The High Road To Glasgow, And Beyond
- TravelStory
Reagan Perry
My Experience at Alabama
- TravelStory
Mari Zipes Wallace
It's Time To Put Teruel In The Spotlight
- TravelStory
Joseph O'Brien
Frantic Drive to Ohio for a Doomed Marriage Proposal
- TravelStory
Teal Gaylord
Nine Years to Freedom
- TravelStory
Douglas Pereira
Chasing Fire
- TravelStory
Bobbi Ali
Best Vacation Ever
- TravelStory
Kiel Lerio
Beyond That Door
- Ishaokanyie Otogbo
Magnanimous
- TravelStory
Christian F. Shushok
Appalachian Glow Worms
- TravelStory
Gargi
A Vacation to Remember Forever
- TravelStory
Beata Stasak
A Mother's Travels Across Australia
- Marcia Chang Vogl
Global Volunteers Adventures
- TravelStory
Ymgy Gardose Aton
A 4-Day and 3-Night Adventure With Friends
- TravelStory
Ymgy Gardose Aton
We All Deserve A Break
- TravelStory
Elizabeth Wahba
A Middle Eastern Road Trip
- TravelStory
Christine Law
My Travels
- TravelStory
Tom Sodergren
Dramamine and My Siren Song of the Road
- Valerie Forde-Galvin
Reindeer Yoga
-
Biographical
Ezra Azra
Rajaluxmi Pillay, 1944-2020
- TravelStory
Iulia Holca
Lessons of a Backpacker in the Indian Ocean
- TravelStory
Deon Matzen
Whitbey Island, Washington State
- Winners Circle
Maureen Moynihan
Baby, We Were Born To Run
- TravelStory
William A. Stoever
Congo: Jungle Misery
- TravelStory
Patricia Togonon
The Big Blue
- TravelStory
Joanne Wilson
Living the Dream