2009 FRONTIERS IN WRITING CONTEST WINNERS
Best of Show - Lisa French - “Deadly Reunion”
Category 1 - Mainstream Novel
1st Honorable Mention Audrey R.L. Wyatt -- “Poles Apart”
2nd Honorable Mention Dale Epps -- “The Mother Load”
3rd Honorable Mention Nilah Turner -- “Home to Hidden Springs”
Category 2 Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
1st Honorable Mention Lisa French -- “Deadly Reunion”
2nd Honorable Mention R. Russell Brown -- “Death Rail”
3rd Honorable Mention Dale Epps -- “Deeds of Trust”
Category 3 Historical/Western
1st Honorable Mention Nilah Turner -- “Tending The Enemy”
2nd Honorable Mention Rory Craig Keel -- “Unlawful Words”
3rd Honorable Mention William L. Brown -- “Hell or Texas, HMM”
Category 4 Romance
1st Honorable Mention Ruby Depuy -- “Thunderbird”
2nd Honorable Mention Crystal Phares – “Razor’s Edge”
3rd Honorable Mention Julia D. Alexander -- “The Fiddle Dances”
Category 5 Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
1st Honorable Mention Bernard Ray Tillery -- “Genesis Project”
2nd Honorable Mention Katie Ruth Hinton -- “The Apprentice”
3rd Honorable Mention Mack Garrisson -- “The Thawing of Pangaea”
Category 6 Juvenile/Young Adult
1st Honorable Mention M. Carolyn Steele -- “Ebby’s Race”
2nd Honorable Mention Alisa Dollar -- “Booby Trapped”
3rd Honorable Mention William L. Brown -- “The Three Mosquitoes”
Category 7 Short Story
1st Place Gerald R. Hibbs -- “The North Dakota Trade Off”
2nd Place Vicki Schoen -- “An Eye For an Eye”
3rd Place Lisa Pawlowski -- “Living High, Wide and Fancy”
Honorable Mention Ed Harvill -- “For The Love of Pete”
Category 8 Nonfiction Article/Essay
1st Honorable Mention Pauletta Cook -- “I Have Never Seen Alice in
Wonderland”
2nd Honorable Mention Lacy Langley -- “Operation Re-sensitization”
3rd Honorable Mention Lisa Pawlowski -- “A Thick Skinned Business”
Category 9 Nonfiction Novel
1st Honorable Mention Jan Sherbin -- “A Women’s War”
2nd Honorable Mention Wanda Evans -- “The Gifts”
Category 10 Screenplay --- No Entry’s
Category 11 Memoir
1st Honorable Mention Marianne McNeil Logan -- “Childhood Reflections”
2nd Honorable Mention Vicki Schoen -- “CEO’s, Listen Up”
3rd Honorable Mention Diane Mowery -- “Voice In The Night”
Category 12 Juvenile/Young Adult Short Story
1st Honorable Mention Jan Sherbin -- “The Garbage Shrinkers”
2nd Honorable Mention Lacy Langley -- “Up and Away”
Category 13 Short Poetry
1st Place Nick Sweet -- “Departing Daughter”
2nd Place Carol Dee Meeks -- “Winter Waft Weans”
3rd Place Ed Harvill -- “Salute to the Pony Express: A Reenactment”
Honorable Mention Nick Sweet -- “Rain On The Porch”
Category 14 Long Poetry
1st Place Jim Wilson -- “Braveheart the Crawfish”
2nd Place Nick Sweet -- “Blast From The Past”
3rd Place Ed Harvill -- “He Answers To No One”
Honorable Mention Pauline D. Robertson -- “Lost City, up from Urubamba”
Category 15 Poetry Chapbook
1st Honorable Mention Marianne McNeil Logan -- “Patterns of Love”
2nd Honorable Mention Karl Smith -- “Words and Water”
3rd Honorable Mention Jim Wilson -- “Oxymorons”