2002 Contest Winners

2002 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award (Student)

Fiction
1st place - Katianne Trainor for "The Good Patient" (pdf)
2nd place - Dani Sandal for "Shadow Boxing"
3rd place - Emily Harrison for "Before and After that Summer"

Judge: Tony Grooms
author of Bombingham a Novel and Trouble No More: Stories

Poetry
1st place - Rebecca Knotts for "Water Songs"
1st place - Cynthia Marie Hoffman for "Front Street"

Judge: Rebecca Wee
author of Uncertain Grace
winner of Copper Canyon Press' 2000 Hayden Carruth Award

Nonfiction
1st place - Caren Pita for "The Theory and Practice of Dying"
2nd place - Matt Scanlon for "Crush"
2nd place - Paul Gustafson for "Hair Like Kryptonite"

Judge: Bryan DiSalvatore
author of Truck Stop and A Clever Base-Ballist

2002 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award (National)

Fiction
1st place - Jason Ockert for "Echo" (pdf)
Honorable Mention - Matthew Vollmer for "Two Women" ("story appeared in Tin House, summer 2002, number 12") (pdf)
Honorable Mention - Daphne Kalotay for "The Man from Allston Electric"

Judge: Robert Bausch
author of A Hole in the Earth, On the Way Home, The Lives of Riley Change,
Almighty Me and The White Rooster and Other Stories

Poetry
1st place - Catherine Theis for "At the Corner of Chestnut and Fourth"

Judge: Rebecca Wee
author of Uncertain Grace
winner of Copper Canyon Press' 2000 Hayden Carruth Award

Nonfiction
1st place - Maureen P. Stanton for "Laundry"
Honorable Mention - Reesa Grushka for "Ariah"
Honorable Mention - Wendy Reed Bruce for "Sticks and Stones"
Honorable Mention - Carol L. Skolnich for "The Ride of His Life"

Judge: Bryan DiSalvatore
author of Truck Stop and A Clever Base-Baluist