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Story Contest Winners
   
     2024 is the 25th year of our annual story contests.  The stories, as usual, are top notch. It was a pleasure to read them and to help the judges come up with the winners.               
     It was also sad, because there were many fine stories that did not make the list.  In many cases they were disqualified merely because they were too short or too long.  I sincerly regret that we can't acknowledge them all.
     For the 2024 contest cycle the first prize in each category is $200.  Runner-up prize is $100.  All finalists receive attractive certificates suitable for framing.  Click here to see one of our award certificates.  
     The five 2025 contests are now open. You can click here to see the rules for those contests. 
     Take the time to read these fine stories.   After that, think about entering one of your stories and then click here to learn how.
     *Note: Previous contest winners have a contest all their own.  This gives newer writers a better chance of winning one of the regular contests. To see the results of the Winners Circle contests click here

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2024 Winners

Biographical Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2024)
  • Winner
  •  James L. Cowles--St. Mama
  •  Runner-Up
  • Scott Chaston--From The Bank To The Boxing Ring
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order) 
  •  Iya Fulem--Finally Good Enough
  •  Karen Gonzales--Peace At Last
  •  Frank Edejoro Miller--Magnitude 

    • General Nonfiction (closed June 30, 2024)
  • Winner
  •  Abbie Creed--Death and Dying
  •  Runner-Up
  • Steven Hunley--A Matter of Perspective
  •  Other Finalists (Alphabetical Order)
  •  Ben Pollard--The Long Arm of the Law
  •  Jenna Vanella--How I Learned To Sleep Alone

    • Animal Nonfiction (closed April 30, 2024)
  • Winner (tie)
  •  Abbie Creed--The Neighborhood Celebrity
  •  Loukia Janavaras--No Ordinary Bird
  •  Runner-Up 
  • Rainbow Medicine-Walker--A Cat Nap Miracle
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order) 
  •  Dana S. Ellingwood--It's Not A Raven?
  •  James Flanigan--Mantisia
  •  Mary Cornelia Brown Murphy--Farewell

    • Winners Circle - Open Nonfiction (closed February 29, 2024)
  • Winner
  •  Maureen Moynihan--Skinny White Girl
  •  Runner-Up
  • Thomas Turman--P-38-E-1943
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order)
  •  Sara Etgen-Baker--Angel on the Highway
  • Giles Ryan--Lutful
  • Karen Radford  Treanor--Past The Use-By-Date


    • 2023 Winners
    Travel Nonfiction (closed October 31, 2023)
  • Winner
  •  Subodh Thallada--Summer of Transformation
    • Runner -Up
  • Katarzyna Knas--My Dolce Vita
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order)
  •  Evee Ashba--The Biltmore
  •  Gareth Oliver--Seville
  •  Maisie Twitchell--Paris 2023

    • Biographical Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2023)
  • Winner
  •  George R. Frost--Toothache
  •  Runner-Up
  • Leah Rose--The Phoenix
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order) 
  •  Abbie Creed--Diary of a Survivor
  •  Robert Flournoy--This Is For My Coach
  •  Irvin Sam Schonfeld--Cauchemar
  •  Beata Stasak--I Spend My Time On Earth Doing My Bit.  That's All I Can Do

    • General Nonfiction (closed June 30, 2023)
  • Winner
  •  Henry Woodward--The Dutiful Nevada Wife
  •  Runner-Up
  • Vince Roman--Is That So?
  •  Other Finalists (Alphabetical Order)
  •  Iveren Evelyn Ayede--The Great Conviction
  •  Lauren Barrett--Believe Me
  •  Lana Nizhehorodova--Pupsia and Lucy
  • John Siko--Operation Greenhouse

    • Animal Nonfiction (closed May 7, 2023)
  • Winner
  •  Steven Stillwell--Little Orange People
  •  Runner-Up
  • Abbie Creed--The Giving Light
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order) 
  •  Ezra Azra--Family Differences
  •  Megan Chisum--Joaquin
  •  Gary Mulnix--Bucky
  •  Sarah Thomas--Hummingbird on the Wind

    • Winners Circle - Open Nonfiction (closed February 28, 2023)
  • Winner
  •  Maureen Moynihan--Baby, We Were Born To Run
  •  Runner-Up
  • Sara Etgen-Baker--The Thornback and the Red-Headed Man
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order)
  •  Valerie Forde-Galvin--The Wolf Ate Grandma
  • Lesley Mukwacha--Regina, The Strange Lion
  •  Giles Ryan--The Witness Tree
  •  Thomas Turman--Crossing Into Ghana



    • 2022 Winners
    Travel Nonfiction (closed October 31, 2022)
  • Winner
  •  Rose Jakubasek--Road Trippin'
  • Runner -Up
  • Tom Sodergren--Dramamine and My Siren Song of the Road
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order)
  •  Leslee Kahler--How I learned the joys, wonder and misadventures of traveling from my parents
  •  Teal M. Gaylord--Nine Years to Freedom
  •  Ekaterina Golovina--The Leap
  • Beata Stasak--A Mother's Travels Across Australia

    • Biographical Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2022)
  • Winner
  •  Fredrick Hudgin --Ha
  •  Runner-Up
  • Pamella Laird--The Other Man
  •  Other Finalists (alphabetical order)
  •  Ezra Azra--How Snake and Cat Were Rescued From Each Other, And We From Both
  •  Teal M. Gaylord--Lessons From A Shoeshine Boy
  •  Stephanie Levy--A Change of Heart
  • Lori Stryker--Each Minute Counts

    • General Nonfiction (closed June 30, 2022)
  • Winner
  •  Lesley Mukwacha--In Bed With The Jungle Queen
  •  Runner-Up
  • Desiree Kendrick--Nobody Told Me
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Christin Kaiser--The Morning Is Mine
  •  Marc Revere--Ringing of the Bell
  •  Darien Greene--Moving Day
  • Henry Lancing Woodward--An After School Hanging
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    Animal Nonfiction (closed April 30, 2022)
  • Winner
  •  Valerie Forde-Galvin--Charlie's Good Year
  •  Runner-Up
  • Cathleen Giannetta--Lioness in the Maasai Mara
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Suzanne Anderson--Bison, Bear, and Elk - Oh My!
  •  Caroline Fynn--In Kite Nation
  •  Marc Revere--Casting Shadows

    • Winners Circle - Open Nonfiction     (closed February 28, 2022)
  • Winner
  •  Thomas Turman--The 49ers at Benito Juarez Hospital
  •  Runner-Up
  • Sara Etgen-Baker--Intangible Ingredients
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Linda A. Dougherty--Grandmom Kate
  •  Maureen Moynihan--The Playboy
  •  Giles Ryan--Staying
  •  Karen Treanor--Fostering Felines

    • 2021 Winners

     Winners Circle - Open Nonfiction (closed February 28, 2021)
  • Winner
  •  Doug Sherr--A Conventional Riot
  • Runner- Up
  •  Albert Vetere Lannon--The Block
  •  Other Finalists
    •  Sara Etgen-Baker--The Lampadedromia
  •  Maureen Moyniham--Teach The Children
  •  James Sclater--The Right Place at the Wrong Time
    •  
    Animal Nonfiction (closed April 30, 2021)
  • Winner
  •  Thomas Turman--Cookie - 1954
  •  Runner-Up
  • Shreya Jha--A Crow Named Charlie
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Rachel Allen--I Nearly Called My Baby Robin
  •  Alex Byrd Jones--My Children and Other Animals
  •  Desiree Kendrick--Party Crashers
    •  
    General Nonfiction (closed June 30, 2021)
  • Winner
  •  Tom Carroll--9-11: An Alaskan Guide's Tale
  •  Runner-Up
  • Pamella Laird--The Scent of Tiny Flowers
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Iris Cross--A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
  •  Tracey Hebert-Seck--Waters That Bind
  •  Kelly Maida--Super Woman
  • Cody Short--Perceptions Outside Normal Capability

    • Biographical Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2021)
  • Winner
  •  Stephanie Wilder--Birthdays Behind Bars
  •  Runner-Up
  • Elliot Wilner--The Price of a Civics Lesson
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Roger Barbee--Memory and June One
  •  Fred Cheney--Tracers
  •  Valerie Forde-Galvin--Always Slow Down at Stop Signs
  •  Winston Wight--Surviving a Brother's Suicide

    • Travel Nonfiction (closed October 31, 2021)
  • Winner
  •  Giles Ryan--El Viejo
  •  Runner-Up
  • Arch Ramish--Somewhere In Between
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Nikki Everts--Portal, North Dakota
  •  Nancy McAtavey--The Wake-up Call
  •  Cody Short--D Short's Last Cruise 

    • 2020 Winners
     Travel Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2020)
  • Winner
  •  Linda Dougherty--Once Upon A Mountain
  •  Runner-Up
  • Steven Stillwell--You Can't Save Everyone
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Lauren Barrett--Finding Answers in Traveling
  •  Bethany Buckles--Frigid Fun in Fairbanks
  •  Karen Kish--Sharing the Sinai
    •  
       Biographical Nonfiction (closed June 30, 2020)
  • Winner
  •  Maureen Moynihan--The Catcher in the Rye
  •  Runner-Up
  • Fredrick Hudgin--Coming Home
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Diana Arriaga--Shape Does Not Define Me
  •  Linda A. Dougherty--Don't Drink The Koolaid
  •  Betsy Shepardson--Mothers Day Cards
    •  
     General Nonfiction     (closed April 30, 2020)
  • Winner
  •  Diya Sabharwal--Hairetical: A History of Hair in my Sikh Family
  •  Runner-Up
  • Maureen Moynihan--The Unlucky Leprechaun
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Iris Cross--That Perpetual Plaid Dress
  •  Gregg Heid--The Incomplete Story
  •  Grace Ryan--The Triumvirate: The Women Who Changed Education Forever
    •      
       Animal Nonfiction (closed February 29, 2020)
  • Winner
  •  Bonnie Crandall--The Bird Can't Find The Sky
  •  Runner-Up
  • Brittany Rohm--Lion Around
  •  Other Finalists
  •  James L. Cowles--Mr. Fox
  •  Elizabeth Lloyd--The Mighty Mouse
  •  Fran Vlahos Rohm--A Real Buzz Kill
  •  John Sayles--Outback Animal Conflict
    •  
       Winners Circle - Biographical Nonfiction (closed February 29, 2020)
  • Winner
  •  Nancy Massand--Not Your Mother's Pumpkin Patch
    •    
    Winners Circle - General Nonfiction (closed February 29, 2020)
  • Winner
  •  Katheryn Lynch--The Lady Who Wears Dead Foxes


    • 2019 Winners

  •  General Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2019)
  •  Winner
  •  Anne Organista--Not Just Another History Lesson
  •  Runners-Up (tie)
  • Desiree Kendrick--Things My Mother Failed To Tell Me About Heaven 
  •  Celeste Leon--Lessons From My Father
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Karen Curran--The Father I Discovered Late In Life
  •  Kelly Maida--Forgiveness
  •  Richard Orth--Historic Farming With Horses In  Berks County
  •  Carol Rotta--The Easter Bunnies
  •  Patricia M. Snell--Baby Boom, Beatles, and Beyond
    •    
  • Travel Nonfiction  (closed August 31, 2019)    
  • Winner (tie)
  •  Douglas Holub--Air Adventure 
  • Charleine Sell--Two Years In Kadugli
  •  Runner-Up
  • Desiree Kendrick--Paris Postcards
  •   Other Finalists
  •  Evan L. Balkan--Q
  •  Brittany Rohm--Turkish Delight
  •  Monica Wenzel--Mishi, My Flying Cat

  • Winners Circle Open Nonfiction (closed May 31, 2019)
  •  First Prize 
  •  Isabel Bearman Bucher--My Maisie
  •  Finalists
  • Elaine Greensmith Jordan--The Slant of Light
  •  Albert Vitere Lannon--True Tales from the Wild Heart Critterarium 
  •  Don Shook--Bill Price
  •  Karen Radford Treanor--A New Fire

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  •  Biographical Nonfiction (closed April 30, 2019)
  •  Winner
  •  Doug Sherr--Another Little Christmas Tale
  •  Runner-Up
  • Luqman Morrison--Stranger In The Club
  •  Other Finalists
  •  N. Barry Carver--Notre Dame Cathedral Is Afire Today
  •  Kathryn Lynch--The Haircut
  •  Patricia Snell--Unasked Questions 


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  •   Animal Nonfiction  (closed April 30, 2019)
    •   Winner
  •  Don Shook--Five Pounder
  •  Runner-Up
  • Brittany Rohm--Gomez the Jungle Dog
  •   Other Finalists
  •  Koji Dae--Black Canyon Mountain Lion
  •  Leslie Soule--The Bears of California

    • 2018 Winners

  •  Animal Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Bill Cox--The Hill
  •  Runner-Up
  • Rachael Bates--The Snowdon Panther
  •   Other Finalists
  •  Judith Nakken--The Eagle Lesson
  •  Lisa Rehfuss--The Ostrich and the Rhino 
  •  Brittany Rohm--Beyond the Reef
    •  
  •  Biographical Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Kathryn Lynch--The Wailing Sound
  •  Runner-Up
  • Robert Flournoy--Things Are Never As They Seem
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Aubrey Grace--A Letter to my Rapist 
  •  Doug Sherr--South Meadow
  •  Katie Danis--Create it Away (?)
  •  John Sayles--A Painful Introduction to Real Life

    •  
  •  General Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Sara Etgen-Baker--The Stranger in the Box
  •  Runner-Up
  • Alex Jasinski--Concrete Ancients
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Blue Dunwoody--Pearl Harbor Attack 
  •  Naheem Watson--Liberty and Justice
  •  Anny Muss--Not Angry, Just 


  •  Travel Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Albert Vetere Lannon--Me and Ishkabibble and the Wild Places
  •  Runner-Up
  • Janet Campbell--Sea Change
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Don Carter--Life on the Road without any Brakes
  •  Howard Englander--Mukachevo on $5,000 a Day
  •  Koji A. Dae--Fables and Fertility: Pobiti Kamani 

    • 2017 Winners
     
  •  Winner--General Nonfiction (Tie)
  •  Karen Treanor--Ravin' Mad
  • Joni Bour--The Man and the Moon
  •   Other Finalists
  •  Margaret Valenta--The Despicable iPhone and Me
  •  Steve Alexander--Raising Kids

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  •  Winner-Biographical Nonfiction 
  •  William Larsen--Sanctuary
  •  Runner-Up (Tie)
  •  Lane Dooling--May We Just Have One More Talk...One More Story?
  • Judith Nakken--Millie Dearest
  • Other  Finalists
  • Barry Carver--Pocket
  • Leslie Soule--Odd Intruder
  •  Gayle Thawley--What Lies Ahead


  •  Winner--Travel Nonfiction
  • Evan Balkan--A Beautiful and Haunted Tune
  •  Runner-Up
  •  Karen Treanor--The Last (And First) Time I Saw Paris
  •  Other Finalists
  •  June Calender--Trans-Siberian Railroad
  • Nancy Massand--Why I'll Never Go Back To Albuquerque
  • Joni Bour--Part Of Him Was Lost

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    2016 Winners
     
  •  Winner--General Nonfiction 
  •  James Sclater--Hosing down Lootie Seton 
  •  Runner-Up
  •  Joni Bour--Duct Taped Boots and Cigarette Butts
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Donal Buchanan--Confessions of a Computer Junkie
  •  Gene Fletcher--The Judge (?)
  •  Karen Treanor--Pestered by Parrots

    •  
  •  Winner-Biographical Nonfiction 
  •  Karen Treanor--Our Garden Goes To Pot
  •  Runner-Up 
  •  Kay Harper--Not In Vain (?)
  • Other  Finalists
  • Dale Fehringer--Mom's Diaries
  • Emily Hart--The Quiet Baby
  •  Donna Heinsbroek--The Queen of Savannah Bridge
  •  Kathy Wolfe--My Grandmother Millie


  •  Winner--Travel Nonfiction
  • Charles Hartley--Norwegian Nightmare (?)
  •  Runner-Up
  •  Brendan O'Brien--Atop This Rock
  •  Other Finalists
  •  Akber Ayub--Pondicherry, A French Connection 
  • Dale Fehringer and Patty McCrary--Cuba: Cycling in a Land that Time Forgot
  • Cassondra Windwalker--Scree Fields

    • 2015 Winners
     
  •  FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  •  Shivaji Moitra--Divine Connections 
  •  RUNNER-UP
  •  Gene Fletcher--A Hog Claim (?)
  •  HONORABLE MENTION
  •  Nancy Massand--Diversity
  •  Steve Alexander--Three Stories (?)
  •  Brendan O'Brien--Clarity
  •  Lisa Rehfuss--Ghost Trilogy 

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  •  FIRST PRIZE--BIOGRAPHICAL NONFICTION 
  •  Carl Winderl--A Half-Empty Mayonnaise Jar
  •  Runner-Up 
  •  Gene Fletcher--Will (?)
  • Honorable Mention
  • Ellie S. Thomas--An Ending and a Beginning
  • Carol Kloskowski--The New David (?)
  •   Dale Fehringer--Alice Marble: The Queen of Swat
  •  Pearl Watley Mitchell--Every Mother Has a Story


  •  FIRST PRIZE--TRAVEL NONFICTION
  • Karen Radford Treanor--The Trip of a Lifetime
  •  RUNNER-UP
  •  Kristin Fouquet--Août in Paris, A Travelogue
  •  HONORABLE MENTION
  •  June Calender--Trekking in Nepal 
  • Brendan O'Brien--Seeking a Lion's Historian


    • 2014 Winners
     
  •  FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  •  Nancy Loera--Grandpa's Time Machine (?)
  •  RUNNER-UP
  •  Dick Miller--Flo...
  •  HONORABLE MENTION
  •  Sara Berelsman--We Do Not Choose...
  •  Sara Berelsman--Faith
  •  William Wayne Weems--A Salute From The Black Aces

    •  
  •  FIRST PRIZE--BIOGRAPHICAL NONFICTION 
  •  Carl Winderl--The Girl on the Cover of Seventeen
  • RUNNER-UP
  • Kay Harper--Danger Man (?)
  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Isabel Bearman Bucher--Ebony and Ivory
  •  Isabel Bearman Bucher--Teachers
  •  Melissa Cronin--Code 309.81
  •  Richard Franklin Bishop--Elmer's Tune
  • Robert Booth--The Human Ladder (?)


  •  FIRST PRIZE--TRAVEL NONFICTION 
  • Frank Mann--Jungle Cruise From Hell
  •  RUNNER-UP
  •  Evan L. Balkan--On the Trail of the Tyrant
  •  HONORABLE MENTION
  •  Celeste Leon--Finding Home
  •  Birgit Starmanns--Planes, Trains, Automobiles - And Chaos
  • Onie Grosshans--Selling Cabo San Lucas
  •  June Calender--To See The Queen


    • 2013 Winners
     
  •  FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  •  Nancy Massand--This is a Public Bus
  •  RUNNER-UP
  •  William Wayne Weems--A Life of Crime
  •  HONORABLE MENTION
  •  Richard Franklin Bishop--The Night That The Franklin Died
  •  Brittany Arnold--Lost and Found
  •  Anna Kiefer--Life on Overdrive
  •  Lane Dooling--Love Cubed

    •  
  •  FIRST PRIZE--BIOGRAPHICAL NONFICTION 
  •  L. Rehfuss--He's Coming For Me
  • RUNNER-UP (Tie)
  • Isabel Bearman Bucher--Zia Susy's Fine Wine
  • Dick Miller--Physics is Phun
  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Janann Giles--Mother's Diary
  •  Richard Franklin Bishop--My Friend Duane
  • Isabel Bearman Bucher--Caffe With Nona


  •  FIRST PRIZE--TRAVEL NONFICTION (Tie)
  • Dick Miller--My First Road Trip
  • Isabel Bearman Bucher--Happy Birthday To Me
  •  RUNNER-UP
  •  Kathleen Gallagher--A Matter of Ocean and Sky
  •  HONORABLE MENTION
  •  Ellie S. Thomas--AMTRAKING East to West (?)


    • 2012 Winners
     
  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Isabel Bearman Bucher--The Stream
  • RUNNER-UP (Tie)
  • Renee C. Johnson--Down The Rabbit Hole With Alice
  • Ellie S. Thomas--Alone, And on the Loneliest Road in America (?)
  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Sheila Sowder--Hey! That's My Little Red Bag!
  • Steven Hunley--Flipper Does Tahiti

    •  
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  • Nancy Massand--Mechanics and Spelling
  • RUNNER-UP:
  • Sara Berelsman--The Light (?)
  • HONORABLE MENTION:
  • Carol Kloskowski--Oak School (?)
  • Rachel Jackson--Beggin' and Barterin' (?)
  • James Sclater-- CoCola Before Church

    • 2011 Winners
     
  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Mary McIntosh--Christmas Breakfast in the Himalayas
  • RUNNER-UP (Tie)
  • Renee C. Johnson--What Is It About Paris?
  • Mary McIntosh--Along The Khyber Pass
  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Nayanna Chakrbarty--The Himalayan Rhapsody
  • Ellie S. Thomas--Ramblin' Through Saranac (?)

    •  
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  • Megan Cooper--Shadow of Death
  • RUNNER-UP:
  • Gayle Thawley--If Only
  • HONORABLE MENTION:
  • Andrea Bowyer--Fear Transformed
  • Robert Flournoy--I Still Remember Tony
  • Steven Hunley--Two Stories (Martians in our Kitchen and Christmas 1952)
  • Lauren Jaworski--An Unexpected Gift (?)


    • 2010 Winners

      FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Charlotte Houde Quimby--Burying Andrew (?)
  • RUNNER-UP (Tie)
  • Mary McIntosh--SNAFU
  • Lowell Harp--Above the Rocks and Beneath the Stars
  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Meredith Hodges-Boos--Given Names
  • Laurie Levinger--Mikvah

    •  
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION (Tie)
  • Valerie Byron--Mr. Wrong
  • Peter Merkl--A Parent's Trilogy (?)
  • RUNNER-UP:
  • Mary McIntosh--Piano Lessons
  • HONORABLE MENTION:
  • Laurie Levinger--Coach
  • Janis LeForge--The Awakening 
    •        

    2009 Winners
     
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION
  • John Poole--Outstanding Debts (?)
  • RUNNER-UP
  • Dody Johnson--The Doctor Is Ready To See You
  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Jason Brooks--Waffle House
  • Pam Mathews--A Walk With My Father

    •  
  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Jasmine Maharisi--Reconnecting: Oaxaca, Mexico (?)
  • RUNNER-UP:
  • Jane Adams--Ni Hao (Talking Our Way Through China)
  • HONORABLE MENTION:
  • Hira Ayub Silat--Tsukuba Travel
  • Susy Kelly--Two Days in Memphis (?)
  • Birgit Starmanns--Three - Tres - Trois Encounters

    •      
    2008 Winners
     
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION
  • Kay Harper--When I Went to the Moon With a Wink and a Prayer
  • RUNNER-UP
  • Patricia Sheasley Sicilia--A Yankee in a Southern Karaoke Bar (?)
  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Gayle Thawley--A Confederate In the Cemetery
  • Megan Anderson--Mom 101

    •  
  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Mary McIntosh--My Serendipity Travels
  • RUNNER-UP (Tie):
  • Carol Kloskowski--Back To Nature (?)
  • Rich Conley--Fraternity and Neruda at Lake Llanquihue (?)
  • HONORABLE MENTION:
  • Vanessa Stoffel--Lucky Drunk (?)
  • Haila Eggleton-MacKay--Remembrance in Wool (?)
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