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