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Home > Prison Writing > 2000-2001

POETRY

First Prize
Marilyn Buck
Too Dark

Second Prize
Charles Goldblum
His Loss

Third Prize (tie)
Christopher Presfield
American Gray

Jorge Antonion Renaud
This Time, This Time

Honorable Mentions
Milton E. McCoy
I Stand Alone In the Rubble…

Gordon Grilz
The Distance Between Us

Sachio Ko-Yin
Mr. Andretti To His Wife

ESSAY

First Prize
David Hargrove
Something Wicked This Way Came

Second Prize
Jorge Antonio Renaud
Analysis of a Lockdown

Third Prize
Dyanne Petersen
Sex Behind Bars

DRAMA

First Prize
Tyrone Wyche
After a Driveby

Second Prize
Phillip Aver
Rats in a Maze

Third Prize
Paul Ferguson
Everything That’s Cool

Honorable Mentions
Willie T. Sutton
The Wino & the Junkie

MEMOIR

First Prize
Anthony La Barca Falcone
The Revelation of Irreparable Damage

Second Prize
D.L. Youngblood
Cowboy Philosophy

Honorable Mentions
Mark Chanchdo
Where the Food’s Gone…

Marilyn Buck
Women in Prison and Work

Kenneth Hart
Christmas Tree

FICTION

First Prize
Phillip S. Barcia
After the War

Second Prize (tie)
Jorgen Antonio Renaud
The Zoom

Gary Parks
A Horseshoer’s Christmas

Third Prize
Michael Wayne Hunter
No Quarter

Honorable Mentions
John V. Hearne
Freed

Edmund Powers
Donations

W.W. Nichols
Captain Jack & the Notorious Nav

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