1st  place: "The Black and White" Patrick McLaughlin  Jacksonville, NC

2nd place: "Poetic Justice"     Janet Hartman   Beaufort, NC

3rd place:  "Monkey Socks"   Brian Coss   Cape Carteret, NC

Honorable Mention :  "Left or Right Handed"    Pat McLaughlin  Jacksonville, NC

Poetry:

1st place:  "Before Summer's Heat" Evie C. Henderson  Oriental, NC

2nd  place:  "The Lesson"   Claire Pittman   Oriental, NC

3rd  place:  "Myopia"  Rachel Best   Emerald Isle, NC

Honorable Mention: "Stealing Grapes"   Keith Laughinghouse  Pine Knoll Shores, (Emerald Isle) NC

Writing for Children:

1st place:  “Liam and the Seals”   Cris Staubach    Niantic, CT  

2nd place:   “Sonny and the Honeybee”    Jennifer Young   Malaga, NJ

3rd place: “Siamese Monks”   Keith Laughinghouse   Pine Knoll Shores, NC

Honorable Mention: “Who Saw What Saul Saw”   Keith Laughinghouse Pine Knoll Shores, NC 

Fiction:

1st place: “Hourglass Figure”   Steven

 Mack  Swansboro, NC

2nd place: “102 Sycamore Wynd”  Flora Ann Scearce  New Bern, NC

3rd place: “Blood on the Floor”   Robert Moulthrop   New York

Honorable mention: “The Christmas Tree Suicide”   Gina Farago,  Beaufort, NC

Non fiction:

1st  place: "Combat Rockers"  Patrick McLaughlin   Jacksonville, NC

2nd  place: "Pirate or Privateer"   Janet Hartman   Beaufort, NC

3rd  place: "I Know It's Here Somewhere"   Doris Dyson   New Bern, NC

Honorable Mention: "The Ouija Board"   Patricia Daharsh   Pinellas Park,  FL

FLASH FICTION:  DEAN TUCK 

Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer of fiction, an advisory editor for Tar River Poetry, an English instructor at East Carolina University, and a performing singer/songwriter: www.deantuck.com. His work has been featured in SmokeLong Quarterly, Night Train, Staccato Fiction, IBX Lifestyles Magazine, and is forthcoming in Zone 3, Fringe Magazine, and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine.

POETRY:  MICHAEL WHITE

Michael White was educated at the University of Missouri and the University of Utah, where he received a PhD in English and Creative Writing. His most recent books are Palma Cathedral, which won the Colorado Prize, and Re-entry, which won the Vassar Miller Prize. His work has been published in magazines and anthologies including The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and The Best American Poetry. He has received numerous awards for his work, including a NEA Fellowship and several North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

FICTION:  TIM BASS

Tim Bass is a lecturer in the Creative Writing program at UNCW, the BFA coordinator, and the Outreach program coordinator. A North Carolina native, he left a career in journalism and earned his MFA at UNCW before joining the faculty.  He teaches both fiction and creative nonfiction. 

WRITING FOR CHILDREN:  DR. SANDRA TAWAKE

Sandra Tawake, Associate Professor (English), East Carolina University (1988-present) earned the PhD at University of Hawaii in 1987. She taught English at University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands from 1973 to 1984 and served as Assistant Head of School of Education at USP from 1982 to 1984. She served as Director, Undergraduate Studies for the Department of English at East Carolina from 1999 to 2004. She was named Elaine K. Kono scholar and recognized for service to international studies by the East-West Center in 1993. She has published on fiction by Pacific island writers including Wendt Ihimaera, Grace, Duff, Hulme, Figiel, and Pule.

NON-FICTION:  ANGELA MELLOR

Angie Mellor, a proud Wisconsinite, is currently an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University where she teaches Composition, Nonfiction, and Creative Writing. She holds an MFA in nonfiction from Georgia College & State University located in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O'Connor.  As a graduate student she spent Friday afternoons volunteering at the O'Connor farm, Andalusia, a place which continues to inspire her poetry and nonfiction. Her current work has been shaped by the landscapes of Eastern North Carolina.