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Outstanding Achievement Award

Charles P. Norman
Lake City, FL
"I Wore Chains to My Father's Funeral"

Poetry

First Place
Richard Miller
Farmington, MO
“Lepidoptera or Butterflies”

Second Place
Joe Ricky Knight
La Grange, KY
“Poinsett County”

Third Place

Kevin Costa
Norfolk, MA
“Locker Key”

Dawson Prize

Robert Hal Brame
Coleman, FL
“Here”

Honorable Mentions

Arvan Washington
Lompoc, CA
“Pieces of a Dream”

Zachary Redfearne
Canon City, CO
“Old Letter”

R.C. Brown
Wilton, NY
“A Way of Saying”

Louis Templeman
W. Sanderson, FL
“The Secret Place”

Essay

First Place
D. Babb
Corcoran, CA
“The First O.J. Book”

Second Place
Joseph Dole
Tamms, IL
“Unilaterally Punitive”

Third Place
Doug Coley
Youngstown, OH
“A Strangely Fruitful, Frustrating Experience”

Honorable Mentions
Joseph Manning
Norfolk, MA
“A Twisted Evening With Doctor Gonzo”

Michael McLean
Beacon, NY
“Thoughts When the Cell Door Closes”

Christian J. Weaver
Only, TN
“A Higher Morality”

Memoir

First Place
George Hughes
Burkeville, VA
“Six Basement”

Second Place
Santonio Murff
Tennessee Colony, TX
“Retired From the Game”

Third Place
Zachary Redfearne
Canon City, CO
“A Fresh End”

Dawson Prize
Sue Ellen Allen
Goodyear, AZ
“Fear”

Honorable Mentions
Frank E. Foster
Delano, CA
“Learning to Swim”

T. Michael Fox
Corcoran, CA
“No More With the Neighbors”

Gary Salinas
Iowa Park, TX
"The Man Scribbles of Big G"

Fiction

First Place
Samuel Harris
Petersburg, VA
“Shepherds of the Passaic”

Second Place
Chris Everley
Florence, AZ
“Dead Men’s Shoes”

Third Place
Sheila Ellenbogen
Chicago, IL
“The Guilt Offering”

Dawson Prize
Anthony Tinsman
Forrest City, AZ
“A Selfish Discovery”

Joseph Jeffrey Burgeson
Gilman, CT
"No Light Escapes”

Honorable Mentions

Daniel E. Sharpe
Corcoran, CA
“House of Bitter Men”

Rick Matzke
Pekin, IL
“In a Nut’s Cell”

William H. Davis, Jr.
Beaumont, TX
“A Shameful Killing”

Drama

First Place
Keith Sanders
Rosharon, TX
“Every Day's Your Birthday”

Second Place
Gary Salinas
Iowa Park, TX
“Heavy Hearts”

Third Place
Matthew G. Walker
Moose Lake, MN
“Second Chances"

Dawson Prize
George K. Johnson
Rosharon, TX
“Trouble On a Rainy Day”

Honorable Mentions
Jackey R. Sollars
Beaumont, TX
“Kings Highway”

Ciro Cid Adames
Rosharon, TX
“Wrong Decision”

Paresh Patel
Rosharon, TX
“eBoy”

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