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Story Contest Winners

2020 Winners
 Travel Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2020)
Winner
 Linda Dougherty--Once Upon A Mountain
   Biographical Nonfiction (closed June 30, 2020)
  • Winner
    • Maureen Moynihan--The Catcher in the Rye
       General Nonfiction (closed April 30, 2020)
       Animal Nonfiction (closed February 29, 2020)
  • Winner
  •  Bonnie Crandall--The Bird Can't Find The Sky\
  •  2019 Winners 

    •  General Nonfiction (closed August 31, 2019)
  •  Winner
  •  Anne Organista--Not Just Another History Lesson
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  • Travel Nonfiction  (closed August 31, 2019)    
  • Winner (tie)
  •  Douglas Holub--Air Adventure 
  • Charleine Sell--Two Years In Kadugli

    •  Biographical Nonfiction (closed April 30, 2019)
  •  Winner
  •  Doug Sherr--Another Little Christmas Tale

  •   Animal Nonfiction  (closed April 30, 2019)
    •   Winner
  •  Don Shook--Five Pounder

    • 2018 Winners

  •  Animal Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Bill Cox--The Hill

  •  Biographical Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Kathryn Lynch--The Wailing Sound

    •    General Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Sara Etgen-Baker--The Stranger in the Box

  •  Travel Nonfiction 
  •  Winner
  •  Albert Vetere Lannon--Me and Ishkabibble and the Wild Places

    • 2017 Winners
     
  •  Winner--General Nonfiction (Tie)
  •  Karen Treanor--Ravin' Mad
  • Joni Bour--The Man and the Moon
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    •   Winner-Biographical Nonfiction 
  •  William Larsen--Sanctuary

    •  Winner--Travel Nonfiction
  • Evan Balkan--A Beautiful and Haunted Tune

    • 2016 Winners
     
  •  Winner--General Nonfiction 
  •  James Sclater--Hosing down Lootie Seton 

    •    Winner-Biographical Nonfiction 
  •  Karen Treanor--Our Garden Goes To Pot

    •  Winner--Travel Nonfiction
  • Charles Hartley--Norwegian Nightmare

    • 2015 Winners  
  •  FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  •  Shivaji Moitra--Divine Connections 

  •  FIRST PRIZE--BIOGRAPHICAL NONFICTION 
  •  Carl Winderl--A Half-Empty Mayonnaise Jar

  •  FIRST PRIZE--TRAVEL NONFICTION
  • Karen Radford Treanor--The Trip of a Lifetime

    • 2014 Winners  
  •  FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  •  Nancy Loera--Grandpa's Time Machine (?) 
  •  FIRST PRIZE--BIOGRAPHICAL NONFICTION 
  •  Carl Winderl--The Girl on the Cover of Seventeen

    •  FIRST PRIZE--TRAVEL NONFICTION (Tie)
  • Frank Mann--Jungle Cruise From Hell

    • 2013 Winners  
  •  FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  •  Nancy Massand--This is a Public Bus

  •  FIRST PRIZE--BIOGRAPHICAL NONFICTION 
  •  L. Rehfuss--He's Coming For Me

  •  FIRST PRIZE--TRAVEL NONFICTION (Tie)
  • Dick Miller--My First Road Trip
  • Isabel Bearman Bucher--Happy Birthday To Me

    • 2012 Winners  
  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Isabel Bearman Bucher--The Stream 
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  • Nancy Massand--Mechanics and Spelling

    • 2011 Winners  
  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Mary McIntosh--Christmas Breakfast in the Himalayas

  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION 
  • Megan Cooper--Shadow of Death

    • 2010 Winners

      FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Charlotte Houde Quimby--Burying Andrew 
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION (Tie)
  • Valerie Byron--Mr. Wrong
  • Peter Merkl--A Parent's Trilogy (?)       
  • 2009 Winners  
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION
  • John Poole--Outstanding Debts (?) 
  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Jasmine Maharisi--Reconnecting: Oaxaca, Mexico (?)     
  • 2008 Winners  
  • FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION
  • Kay Harper--When I Went to the Moon With a Wink and a Prayer

  • FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
  • Mary McIntosh--My Serendipity Travels  
  •     2007 Winners

     FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION\
     Lance Wills--Two Tigers
    2006 Winners

     FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION
     Joni Bour--What I Learned at Twenty-Three

     FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
     Sonja Herbert--Peace In The Valley (?)
    2005 Winners
    2004 Winners

     FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION
     Ehichoya Ekozilen--A Positive Adjournment (?)

     FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
     Tracy Koret--Diplomacy As A Second Language (?)
    2003 Winners

     FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION
     American Patch by Judith Nakken

     FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION TRAVEL STORY
     The Hands That Grab In Tangier by Alana Semuels (?)

    2002 Winners

     FIRST PRIZE--GENERAL NONFICTION (Tie):
     Lockhart's Bar: A Love Story by K. S. Anthony
     Tippi Hedren And The Pointy Tree by Peter Lamb (?) 2001 Winners

     FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION:
     Flowers In My Garden by Travis Humphreys  2000 Winners

     FIRST PRIZE--NONFICTION:
     Zadie by Ann Beckham
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    1999 Winners

     OPEN NONFICTION:
     We Get Our Feet Wet by Wally Hoffman

     SHORT NONFICTION:
     Confronting The Evil by M. Sandra Babcock (?)
     
    1998 Winners

     OPEN FICTION (Tie):
     Too Many Brass Rings by Dante Cinelli (?)
     A Sign by Barbara Herrick (?)

     SHORT NONFICTION:
     A Resurrection To Remember by Frank Mann

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