Tiny Lights' 12th Annual Contest Results
First Prize: $400
It's Not How It Looks, It's How It Feels by Leslie Patterson
Second Prize: $250
Present Imperfect by Greta Marie Skau
Third Prize: $150
The Lizard by Hannah Fisher
Honorable Mentions: $100
Walk Like a Millionaire by Lillian Schaie Mattimore
Pennies in Heaven by Amy Miller
Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Confessions of a Swanherd by Richard Harrison
3 Blinks for Yes by Barbara Lewis
Pennies in Heaven by Amy Miller
Knock, Knock by Katherine A. Salts-Roche
I Always Look for Poochie by Sandra Winicur
Entries of Note (in no particular order):
Grace Culbertson (Whistler's Mother), Wendy Dodek (A Test of Citizenship), D.J. Edwards (I Hate This Woman), Donna Emerson (Vessel), Denise Emmanuel (Naked Cowboy), Tessa Fisher (Bounty), Kevin Holdsworth (Bam Bam Bambi), MJ Iuppa (A Bowlful of Cherries), Rich Kenney (Of Flu Spiders, Leap Seconds and Silver Linings), Raphael Kosek (Book of Hours), Patricia Ljutic (Getting to the Next Level; Journey Thru a Superstore), Catha Loomis (The Grassland Dance), Andrea Marcusa (Onion Soup), Helen McKenna (Misery Has Its Advantages), Shelley Muniz (One Mother's Story), W.E. Rampujan (Murder in a Danish Health Camp), Susan Starbird (The Thing That Will Get You), Barbara Toboni (One Gold Medal), Hazel Whiteoak (First Communion)
Once again, thanks to every writer who cared and dared to enter this contest. Your essays surprised, provoked, amused and moved us. They affected the way we look at the world. They changed us.
Remember, too, 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, so don't be discouraged if you didn't win this time (or again).
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