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    Thank you to all those who participated in our 2010 Literary Contest. This year was a record breaking year with over 1100 entries and submissions from across the globe!



    2010 Winners:


    MAINSTREAM

    1. Holly S. Warah – Married to the Mansours

    2. Karen K. Brees – The Esposito Caper

    3. Barry Brennessel - Tinseltown

     

    HISTORICAL

    1. Kendra Hall -  Joan of Arc: Gabriella’s story

    2. Beth Camp – Standing Stones

    3. Debra Carlson - Shakuhachi

     

    ROMANCE

    1. Katherine Clare Owen – Seeing Julia

    2. Donna Cummings – I Do . . . or Die

    3. Shannon Winslow – For Myself Alone

     

    MYSTERY/THRILLER

    1. Kendel Flaum –The Miser Who Bought The Farm

    2. Nathan Everett – Gutenberg’s Other Book

    3. Kathleen Ferguson – Time Enough

     

    SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

    1. Sandra Wright -  Song of the Ancients

    2. Jonathan Lyster – Oh, Fracas

    3. Len Robertson - Revelations

     

    YOUNG ADULT

    1. Mary Bryan Stafford – A Wasp in the Fig Tree

    2. Barbara Lopuszynski – Angel and Brie

    3. Linda Johns – The Cold Reader

     

    NONFICTION/MEMOIR

    1. Anne Herman – Something of My Own

    2. Ester K. Willison - Askew

    3. Mary Koch – After the Caregiving’s Done

     

    SCREENWRITING

    1. Christopher King - Jade

    2. Sammye Pokryfki – On The Fly

    3. Bradley G. Andrews – Ice

     

    POETRY

    1. Cynthia Monroe - Ark

    2. Carol Staudacher – Redemption

    3. Raymond Bolton – And I, Like a Knife

     

    SHORT STORY

    1. Rex T. Olson – Special Delivery

    2. Raymond Hutson – In The Market Near Allenby Street

    3. Kurt Stephan – Mozart Defect

     

    CHILDREN’S PICTURE/CHAPTER BOOK

    1. Christina Dudley – Mia and the Magic Cupcakes

    2. Tiffany Doerr Guerzon – Loud Leilani

    3. Thomas Owen – Once Upon A . . . Time

     

    ADULT SHORT TOPICS: ARTICLE/ESSAY/SHORT MEMOIR

    1. Josephine Ensign – Gone South

    2. Tracy Rohwer – Imagine That

    3. Pamela Stanek - Steilacoom