2003 Contest Winners

2003 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”
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

2003 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 of
Tales 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.