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Home > Prison Writing > 2002-2003

POETRY

First Place
Gordon Grilz
Florence, AZ
The Nature of Things

Second Prize
David Thomas
Napanoch, NY
Behind George Washington’s Face

Third Prize
Dominique Ramser
Dublin, CA
Observations By Self

Honorable Mentions
Bratt Jones
Pacific, MO
Fairy Tales From the Depths of Hell

Eric V. Reid
Attica, NY
She Makes Me Feel

Kyle D. Sharp
Florence, AZ
Where Fields Have Been Planted

ESSAY

First Prize
William Van Poyck
Waverly, VA
My Turn

Second Prize
Charles Hucklebury
Concord, NH
The Mushroom Farm

Third Prize
Rhonda Leland
Chowchilla, CA
Solidarity

Honorable Mentions
Paul Ferguson
Bowling Green, MO
The Horror

DRAMA

First Prize
John Whitfield
Ossining, NY
Pro Se

Second Prize
David Warren Sligar
Rosharon, TX
Damage Control

Third Prize
Gary Farlow
Polton, NC
Sticks

Dawson Prize
Julia Averitt
Dayton, TX
Untitled

Honorable Mentions
Christian Allesandro Sierra
Tennessee Colony, TX
Valor

William E. Chaplar
Pampa, TX
Literary Update

Willie Wisely
Ione, CA
Someone To Listen

MEMOIR

First Prize
Paresh Patel
Rosharon, TX
The Longest Day

Second Prize
Joseph Urbaniak
Spruce Pine, NC
Lost Trust, Lost Friend

Honorable Mentions
Gary Don Park
Amarillo, TX
All Day Singing With Dinner On The Grounds

George Hughes
Big Stone Gap, VA
I Still Remember

FICTION

First Prize
Gary Farlow
Troy, NC
The Prison

Second Prize
John Byron Yarbrough
Rosharon, TX
The Calm

Third Prize
Jorge Antonio Renaud
Huntsville, TX
The Restless of Bound Wrists

Honorable Mentions
David Wood
Bowling Green, FL
The Clockworks

Gary Parks
Amarillo, TX
Peckerwood

Curtis Petty
Los Angeles, CA
Long Ago and Far Away

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