Tiny Lights' 11th Annual Contest Results
First Prize: $350
Trauma Chic by Holly Leigh Jacobson
Second Prize: $250
Mistletoe by Suzanne LaFetra
Third Prize: $150
Oysters R in Season by Robin Beeman
Honorable Mentions: $100
In Good Hands by Anne Warren Smith
The Messenger by Cyndi Cady
Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Something about Cherries by Nancy Colvin
The Lock Box by Grace Culbertson
River Run by Richard Goldstein
My Caribbean Winter by Sue William Silverman
Ad Astra and Back Again by Susan Starbird
Entries of Note (in no particular order):
Katie Stohlmann, Lizzie Hannon, Cristie Marcus, Wendy Sanford, Karen Weil, Leonard Levy, Kevin Holdsworth, Sadie Ackerman, Audrey Joyce Roberts, Catha J. Loomis, Jeanne Lyet Gassman
I have said it before and I'll say it again: Thanks to every writer who cared and dared to enter this contest. Your essays surprised, provoked, amused and moved me. They affected the way I look at the world. They changed me.
I've also said that contest entries are weighed on a peculiar set of scales that tries to balance tone, subject matter and craft. It's an inexact science, to put it mildly.
All contest participants will get a chance to judge the results for themselves when they receive a contest issue this summer. Additional copies can be purchased for $5 by sending to:
Tiny Lights Publications
P.O. Box 928
Petaluma, CA 94953
As always, keep writing. Please try your skill and luck with us again.
Susan Bono, Editor