The Winners

 

FLASH FICTION

 

1st Place: Monarch of the Night by Doris Dyson (Trent Woods, NC)

 

2nd Place: Arm's Length by Krisan Murphy (Newport, NC)

 

3rd Place: Terminus by Jerome Norris (New Bern, NC)

 

Honorable mention: Freeing Bella by Krisan Murphy (Newport, NC)

 

CHILDREN'S

 

1st Place: Contact Me Immediately by Krisan Murphy (Newport, NC)

 

2nd Place: Thanks for Bugs and Thanksgiving Hugs by Judy Crowder (Morehead City, NC)

 

3rd Place: Confessions of a Lunch Lady's Kid by Darlene Buechel (Chilton, WI)

 

Honorable mention: Mabel's Surprise by Carole Hartsoe (Hubert, NC)

 

FICTION

 

1st Place: Chalky White Clouds by Bill Morris (Durham, NC)

 

2nd Place: Wild Rose of the Cape Fear by C. Pleasants York (Sanford, NC)

 

3rd Place: One Fall Morning by Brancie Steele (Morehead City, NC)

 

Honorable mention: Secrets, Lies, & Faith by Erika Hoffman (Siler City, NC)

 

NONFICTION

 

1st Place: Grief's Grip by Kelly Hayes-Raitt (Santa Monica, CA)

 

2nd Place: Cycle Circle by C. Pleasants York (Sanford, NC)

 

3rd Place: The Unbearable Heaviness of Being by Denise Heinze (Durham, NC)

 

Honorable mention: Death Flew Over by Elaine Crigler (Emerald Isle, NC)

 

POETRY

 

1st Place: Shrimp Boat Captain by Terri Kirby Erickson (Lewisville, NC)

 

2nd Place: Frog Pond: A Way of Looking by Claire Pittman (Oriental, NC)

 

3rd Place: Who's to Say by Brooks (Beaufort, NC)

 

Honorable mention: The End of the Road by Leslie McCombs Porter (Marshallberg, NC)

 

Our Judges

Fiction:           Judges Rick and Marcie Carroll are both published authors, owners of a small press, and former owners of the Rocking Chair bookstore.  

 

 Flash Fiction:     Judged by Eryn Kawecki who earned a degree cum laude in English literature from Christopher Newport University in Newport News and is a member of their English honor society. Besides working as a journalist, she has written major papers discussing Sancho Panza's role as a hero in Don Quixote, music as a theme in Jane Austen's work, and the theme of chocolate in the film Chocolat.

  

Writing for Children:      Judge Kelley Maroules has a degree in English literature and over 20 years experience working in her family's Emerald Isle Bookstore which has a large children's section. For the past 10 years, she has written reviews covering various genres, mostly fiction.

 

Poetry:     Judge Lavonne Adams is MFA coordinator at UNC Wilmington, the author of Through the Glorieta Pass (2007 Pearl Poetry Prize), and two poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has  appeared in over fifty additional publications.

 

Judge Ashley Shivar is a Teaching Assistant in UNC Wilmington's Creative Writing Department, and co-coordinator of the Writers in Action program (UNCW outreach.)

 

 Nonfiction:     Judge Tim Bass is a lecturer in the Creative Writing program at UNC Wilmington, the BFA coordinator, and the Outreach program coordinator. His areas of interest are in creative nonfiction and fiction.

 

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