The winner of our Cover Competition is Loretta Menendian, a local artist.
NON-FICTION
1st Place: Pop Culture Revisited by Melita Gardner
2nd Place: On Belay with Johnny by Audrey Wendland
3rd Place: The Lean Acres Chronicles by Ronald H. Allen
Honorable Mention: An Investigation of the Hermaphroditic Influence in As You Like It and Cymbeline on the Seventeenth Century Idea of Woman by Delores Merrill
POETRY
1st Place: "Fear's Birth" by Julia Schuster
2nd Place: " November 22, 1963" by Don Harrison
3rd Place: "Winter Swamp" by Reg Altazan
Honorable Mention:
"Homeless" by Darlene Dean;
"Friend" by Darlene Dean;
"Sonya Renay was in the Paper" by Delores Merrill
CHILDREN'S FICTION
1st Place: Tigra's Quest by Ellen Martin
2nd Place: The Old Woman's Song by Riotta Scott
3rd Place: The Girl Who Was Afraid of Dogs by Natasha Santo
Honorable Mention: Something's Under the Bed by Maureen Vreeland
SHORT FICTION
1st Place: Justice Brings Me No Solace by Jacqueline Bouchard
2nd Place: That Palich Woman by Melita Gardner
3rd Place: Kareem's Roti by Ronald Frazer
Honorable Mention: Drowning by Proxy by Melita Gardner
SHORT-SHORT FICTION
1st Place: Like Moses by Lou Krueger
2nd Place: Too Old by Jacqueline Bouchard
3rd Place: Last Thread by Reg Altazan
Honorable Mention: A Cat's Tale by Melita Gardner