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Home > Prison Writing > 2010

POETRY

First Place
Louis Templeman
Sanderson, FL
Villanelle to Pio

Second Place
Christian J. Weaver
Only, TN
Rehabilitation

Third Place

Sarah Havely Edmondson
St. Gabriel, LA
The Apple

Dawson Prize

Dana P. R. Schultze
Brooklyn, CT
Feather

Honorable Mentions

Parrish Chase
Cranston, RI
Longings

Hal Cobb
La Grange, KY
Salsa Meditation

Edward Ramirez
Graterford, PA
Diary

B. Smith
Mineral Point, MO
Lines

ESSAY

First Place
Hal Cobb
La Grange, KY
The Pursuit of Character

Second Place
Markeithia R. Reevez
Troy, VA
Inmate Jane Doe

Third Place
Robert Molloy
La Grange, KY
Kentucky’s Shameful Statistics

Honorable Mentions
Jermon R. Clark
Lompoc, CA
Voice of an Unheard Nation

Samuel M. Daugherty
Rosharon, TX
Nature for the Nature Deprived

Robert Garite
Danville, IL
Shimmers of Light

DRAMA

First Place
Matthew G. Walker
Moose Lake, MN
Not Guilty

Second Place
Kenneth Milton
Rosharon, TX
Raw Bones (Live and Encaged!)

Third Place
Fabian Ontiveros Flores
Huntsville, TX
Beasts of Autumn

Dawson Prize
Marjorie Petersen
Monroe, WA
10-Minute Shakespeare

Honorable Mentions
Jeffrey Hamilton Montgomery
Imperial, CA
Second Chance

Charles P. Norman
Lake City, FL
Escape Risk

Robert Weaver
Butner, NC
The Secret of Sky

MEMOIR

First Place
Arthur Longworth
Monroe, WA
Walla Walla IMU

Second Place
Robert Hal Brame
Coleman, FL
Runaway Justice

Third Place
Chasity C. West
Niantic, CT
Left Behind

Dawson Prize
Martin Dawson
Imperial, CA
As the Creamed Beef Goes …

Honorable Mentions
Charles Harper
Oxford, WI
A Chair Full of Ashes

Joe Manning
Roslindale, MA
A Neighborhood Rite of Passage

Johnny Ruffner
Coalinga, CA
Boo to a Goose

FICTION

First Place
Jonathan C. Rosenbloom
Windham, ME
Terremoto

Second Place
Robert McKown
Littleton, CO
The Little Prisoner

Third Place
John Steven Hallman
Crescent City, CA
Casine the Joint

Dawson Prize
Jeff Conner
Monroe, WA
Fault

Robert Fuentes
Crescent City, CA
Lessons

Honorable Mentions
Keith Cole
Grady, AR
A Wonderful Thing

Michael Moore
Gatesville, TX
Blood Brothers

Christopher Myers
Lovelock, NV
Matthew

Bill Williams
San Luis Obispo, CA
Brother’s Peeper

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