Information for:
2003 Contest Winners
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award (Student)
Fiction
1st Place-Huan Hsu for “Whatever it Takes”
Honorable Mention-Brandon Wicks for “A Blinking, Static World Around Us”
Judge: Mary Zuraleff, author of The Frequency of Souls
Poetry
1st Place-Bianca Diaz for “Letter Written Before the Marriage”
Honorable Mentions-Melanie McCabe for “Making Meaning” and Brian Brodeur for “Woman Bathing Her Mother”
Judge: Margaret Boyers, author of Hard Bread and executive editor of Salmagundi magazine at Skidmore College
Nonfiction
1st Place-Lisa Renfro for “Living at Treeline”
Honorable Mentions-Carrie Wright for “Playing with Men”
Judge: Bryan Di Salvatore, author of Truck Stop and A Clever Base-Ballist
Mary Roberts Rhinehart (National)
Fiction
1st Place-Shauna Seliy for "Blackdamp"
1st Runner-up-Michaela Baltasar for "Indoors"
2nd Runner-up-Alan Heathcock for "Peacekeeper" (pdf)
3rd Runner-up-Jeb Livingood for "To Us"
Judge: Porter Shreve, author of the novel The Obituary Writer and co-editor ofTales out of School, How We Want to Live, and Outside the Law
Poetry
1st Place-F.J. Bergmann for "Grand Tour"
1st Runner-up-Norah Christianson for "Rounds"
2nd Runner-up-Joshua Kryah for "Lashpool Series" (pdf)
Judge: Margaret Boyers, author of Hard Bread and executive editor of Salmagundi
magazine at Skidmore College
Nonfiction
1st Place-Jody Reale for "Step Away From the Punchbowl and Reach for the
Fabulousness"
Runner-up-Jason Rapacilo for "La Mesa"
Judge: Bryan Di Salvatore, author of Truck Stop and A Clever Base-Ballist
This year the winners each will receive $1500.