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2011 Contest Results

Judge: George Singleton

Winner:

“Biology Bee” by Rachel Furey, Lubbock, TX.

Rachel Furey received her MFA from Southern Illinois University and is currently a PhD student at Texas Tech. She is a winner of Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Fiction and Crab Orchard Review’s Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award. Her work has also appeared in Waccamaw, Hunger Mountain, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Tidal Basin Review, Sweet, and The Prose Poem Project.

Runners-up:

“Bring Your Sorrow Over Here” by Daren Dean, Columbia, MO.

Daren Dean is a writer out of Missouri. His fiction, poetry, and interviews have appeared in Fiction Southeast, Image, Chattahoochee Review, Story South, Poetry Southeast, and others. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. He has taught writing and literature at several colleges and has worked in acquisitions and marketing at the University of Missouri Press. He is the founding editor of the digital literary journal CEDARS. He lives in Columbia, Missouri with Cassie, Claira, and Finn.

“Down Fallen Road” by JL Myers, Stillwater, OK.

JL Myers is an instructor of writing at Oklahoma State University, where he is pursuing an MFA. He co-wrote and produced the award-winning independent feature film Find Me, and his screenplay Losing My Religion was a finalist in the 2007 Sundance Screenwriters Workshop. His fiction has appeared in elimae, Ripe Magazine, PulpBits, Papyrus, firstwriter and others.

Finalists:

 David Bernardy | Greenville, SC
“Tangerine”

Mark Brazaitis | Morgantown, WV
“The Blind Wrestler”

Jodie Childers| Flushing, NY
“Eminent Domain”

Timika Elliott | Willingboro, NJ
“Della”

Amber Gross | Baltimore, MD
“The Ghost Between Us”

Catherine Harnett | Fairfax, VA
“Off the Face of the Earth”

Brandon Hobson | Oklahoma City, OK
“Granaby Street”

Pedro Ponce | Canton, NY
“The Discovery of James Osborne Beckett”

Rachel Richarson | Tulsa, OK
“Schism”

Brandon Williams | Placerville, CA
“A Third Kind of Wonderful”

2010 Contest Results

 Judge: David Bajo

Winner:

“Idaho Family Eats Indigenous Bigfoot Tribe” by Aaron Frigard, Greenfield, MA

Aaron Frigard is currently an MFA candidate at the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition to writing he teaches composition to undergraduates. He lives in western Massachusetts. This is his first publication.

Runners-up:

“Amusement” by Carolyn Mikulencak, New Orleans, LA.

Carolyn Mikulencak lives one block off of Annunciation Street in New Orleans with her husband and three sons.

“A Purposeful Violence” by Nicole Louise Reid, Evansville, IN.

Nicole Louise Reid is the author of the novel In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage) and the fiction chapbook Girls (RockSaw Press). Her story collection, So There!, is forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press this fall. Her stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Quarterly West, and Meridian. She teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana, where she is editor of RopeWalk Press, fiction editor of Southern Indiana Review, and director of the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series.

Finalists:

Allison Alsup | New Orleans, LA
“Hard Lessons From the Trail by Loquacious D”

Jacob Appel | New York, NY
“Trafalgar 2”

Ed Bull | West Palm Beach, FL
“Threshold”

Matthew Burnside | McKinney, TX
“Spies”

Stephanie Dumas | Brooklyn, NY
“Not Even the Rain”

Violet Glaze | Philadelphia, PA
“A Reading from the Author”

Heather McGrail | Cicero, IN
“Knife”

Sharon Snow Pinson | Tampa, FL
“I Am”

Fred Setterburg | Oakland, CA
“Labor Day”

Gerry Wilson | Jackson, MS
“Pieces”