Essay
Category
1st Place: "The Fast Food Approach to Making the Grade" by Crystal
Henson
2nd
Place: "Imagine
That!" by James David Bass
3rd Place: "You're a Shining Star" by Molly
Chaucer
Honorable Mention: "My Melancholy Eddie" by Phyllis
Anne Giaconia
Short
Story Category
1st Place: "The Never Ending Journey" by Ruth Kim
2nd Place: "The Keep on Black Lake" by Dan
Saarinen
3rd
Place: "The
Legacy of a Well-Bred Woman" by Rebecca (Scheckloth)
Barth
Honorable
Mention: "Where's Your Other Child?" by Crystal Henson
Personal
Narrative Category
1st Place: "Ms. Stanton" by Meera Maheswaran
2nd Place: "Finding My Way Back to Mayberry"
by Phyllis Anne Giaconia
3rd Place: "Ed: A Man Remembered" by Heidi
Hernandez
Honorable Mentions: "The Story of Cat McCarty" by
Betty Schmidt and "Precious Moments" by Ruth
Kim
Poetry
Category
1st Place: "XY" by Lyle Cooper
2nd Place: "Suicide at Loon Lake" by James
David Bass
3rd Place: "Revolving Chamber" by Rebecca (Scheckloth) Barth
Honorable
Mentions: "Brahma Day" by Lyle Cooper and "A Lapse in Cadence"
by Oscar Medina