Conference 2007
FiW Conference 2007 was an outstanding success!

We want to thank everyone who attended! We had a great
time and hope to see more of you next year!

2007 Writing Contest Winners
Categories that did not have ten entries were awarded
Honor Mentions

#1-Mainstream Novel- Terry Whalin-Terry Whalin Literary
Agency
1st –  Alice Armstrong – Rocky Point
 Amarillo
2nd –Vicki Schoen – Are the Dogwood Blooming?
 Amarillo
3rd – David Reeve – Texas Two-Step
 Austin, TX
HM – Harry Haines – Overturned
  Canyon, TX

#2-Mystery/Suspense/Thriller- Susan Downs- Barbour
Publishing-
1st – Paul Sturm – Epistle
Uvalde, TX
2nd – Paul Sturm – Resurrection
 Uvalde, TX
3rd – Valerie Abeyta – My Name is Not Ko-Ala
  Albuquerque, NM
HM – Carol Shenold – Privy to Murder
   Bethany, OK

#3-Historical/Western- Terry Burns- literary agent- Hart
Literary Agency
1st – Carolyn Steele – No Chance
 Tulsa, OK
2nd – Laurin Kets – The Strike of the Mamba
  Silver Spring, MD
3rd – Mary Toponce – Agnes Rose
 Amarillo

#4-Romance- Hilary Sares- Kensington Publishers
1st – Ginger Porter - Parade Today
Canyon, TX
2nd – Alisa Dollar – Food Affair
  Lubbock, TX
3rd -  Lisa Marie Wilkinson – The Diddi Kai
      Antioch, TN
HM -  Susan McDivitt – What's Cooking?
   Amarillo

#5- Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror- Devi Pillai- Little, Brown, & Co.
1st HM – Lisa Marie Wilkinson – Stormworld
        Antioch, TN
2nd HM – Wendy Koenig – Spinning the Tires
          Presque Isle, ME

#6-Juvenile- Andrea Brown- Andrea Brown Literary
Agency
1st HM – Paul Christian – Zipper: Firedog for a Day
        Richmond, VA

#7-Young Adult- Mike Smitley- Father's Press
1st HM – Carolyn Steele – Ebby's Race
        Tulsa, OK
2nd HM – Deborah Lightfoot – Camera Shy
      Crowley, TX

#8-Short Story- Gail Howick- Windriver Publishers
1st – Carolyn Donnell – Walking Shoes
 San Jose, CA
2nd – Jan Carrington – Snapshots
  Coleman, TX
3rd – Carolyn Donnell – The Last of the Oatmeal
  San Jose, CA
HM – Constance Taylor Cox – The Rescue

#9-Nonfiction Article/Essay-Colleen Sell- Cup of Comfort
1st – Jan Carrington – Butterflies Without Borders
 Coleman, TX
2nd – Gerald Hibbs – The Great Standup Showdown
   Edmond, OK
3rd – Janda Raker – The Gang
 Amarillo
HM – Lynda Stephenson – Leapin' Lizards!
   Edmond, OK

#10-Nonfiction Book- Melanie Rigney- freelance editor
1st – Prissy Vanover – Let's Visit, Lord: Show Me the
Blessings of Grief
 Amarillo
HM – Patsy Rae Dawson – Surviving Marriage to a Jerk
  Amarillo

#11-Screenplay- Bill Wright- playwright
1st HM – Deborah Elliott-Upton – AKA Nellie Bly: The Life
and Times of Elizabeth
                                Cochrane
        Amarillo
2nd HM – Sharon Gillespie – Captive
          Austin, TX
#12-Memoir- Joan Neubauer Word Wright.biz, Inc.
1st – Phyliss Miranda – Painting the Town Red
 Amarillo
2nd – Pat Browning – White Petunias
  Yukon, OK
3rd – Jan Carrington – Long Live the Texas Tomboy
 Coleman, TX
HM – Carol Shenold – Chimes in the Snow
   Bethany, OK

#13-Juvenile Short- Cindy Davis- freelance fiction doctor
1st HM – Jan Carrington – Whiskers
        Coleman, TX
2nd HM – Susan Wider – Prairie Dog on a Mission
          Santa Fe, NM

#14-Young Adult Short-Janine O'Malley- Farrar, Straus,
Giroux Bks for Young Readers
No HM's awarded

#15-Short Poetry- Harvey Stanbrough-editor-The
Raintown Review magazine
1st – Nick Sweet – My Father's Woodpile
 Taft, OK
2nd – Nick Sweet – Stateside, 1945
  Taft, OK
3rd –Lynda Stephenson – October Haystacks
 Edmond, OK
HM –Winston Derden – After
  Houston, TX

#16-Long Poetry- CarrieAnn Thunell-editor-The Nisqually
Delta Review magazine
1st – Ed Harvill, Jr. – The Legacy
 Iowa Park, TX
2nd – James Beard – Surely Wings
  Follett, TX
3rd – Yvonne Nunn – Transition
  Hermleigh, TX
HM – Rebecca Russell – Upon Meeting a Soldier
   College Station, TX

#17-Poetry Chapbook- Edward Wilson-Absey & Co.
1st HM – Karl Smith – Woods and Water
        Amarillo
2nd HM – Kim Thurman – Mythic Voices
          Amarillo

Best of Show- Kim Campbell- Friend of Authors  editing
service
Paul Sturm – Epistle
Uvalde, TX