Contest
2004 Winners
Tiny Lights Publications is pleased to announce the winners of its
10th annual personal essay contest:
First Prize ($300): "Two Kids, A Corolla, and the Journey to Silence" by
Eileen McVety, Chicago, IL
Second Prize ($200): "In the Tradition of Tulips" by Anne Warren
Smith, Corvallis, OR
Third Prize ($150): "Piranha" by Maureen Stanton, Georgetown, ME
Honorable Mention ($100): "Gestures in Waiting" by Robert Vivian, Alma, MI
Honorable Mention ($100): "On Loving a Body" by Patti Hinson, Crofton, MD
Runners-up (in alphabetical
order):
Elizabeth Eidlitz (“Missing
Piece”)
Nina Gaby (“The Forever Dogs”)
Lisa Libowitz (“Woman in Red”)
Katy Read (“Scavengers”)
Sandra Soli (“Year of the Probable Boom”).
Other
Notable Entries (in no particular order): Lauren Shapiro (“There's Nothing Else”), Renee Owen (“Lumbering Home”),
Teresa Funke (“When Mothers
Play”), Karen Singer (“The Grandmother Tree”), Joan Zerrian (“Georgiana's
Irises”), Richard Goldstein (“Fractals”), Grace Culbertson
(“Maybe He's Helping Us Now”), Emily Cooke (“South
of the Lost Coast”), Leslie Patterson (“The Worry Stone”),
Kenneth Fraundorf (“Freda's
Tree”), Bonnie West (“Dog on the Bed”), Gregory Gerard
(“The Spelling Ladder”)Wendy Revell (“The Video Games Won”)
Thanks
to those who entered Tiny Lights' 10th annual
personal essay contest. Your writing helped raise the
bar and made the judging delightfully difficult.
So difficult, in fact,
it's important to remember that writing markets are unpredictable
and more subjective than most of us dare to acknowledge.
As André Maurois said, "In
literature, as in love, we are astonished by what is
chosen by others."
I hope you will be astonished
in a positive sense by the winners of this year's contest,
whose work will appear in Tiny Lights this summer.
All contest participants will receive a copy of that
issue. Additional copies can be purchased for $5 by sending
to:
Tiny Lights Publications
P.O. Box 928
Petaluma, CA 94953
As always, keep writing.
And next year, please try your skill and luck with us
again.
Susan
Bono, Editor