Information for:
2007 Contest Winners
The Mark Craver Poetry Award
Judge: Forrest Gander
Winner: Robb St. Lawrence, for "Via Dolorosa"
Honorable Mention: Wade Fletcher, for "Back to Back, Forward"
Honorable Mention: Nicole Foreman, for "Via Negative:
Honorable Mention: Danika Stegeman, for "Moths"
The Mary Roberts Rinehart Awards
Poetry
Judge: Brian Barker
Winner: Robb St. Lawrence, for "Somnelle" and "Silhouette for Margaret Schilling"
Honorable Mention: Shawn Flanagan, for "Sedalia Locket"
Fiction
Judge: Wendi Kaufman
Winner: Rion Scott, for "202 Checkmates"
Second Place : Alyson Foster, for "Blight"
Second Place : Sara Hov, for "Pretend"
Third Place: Caron Marinez, for "Black Ice"
Nonfiction
Judge: Lisa Page
Winner: Penny Gilchrist, for "King of Ginos"
Honorable Mention: Mike Scalise, for "Writing Him Off"
The Virginia Downs Poetry Award
Judge: Betsy Andrews
Winner: Regan Douglass, for "Mrs. Park"
The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Judge: Rebecca Dunham
Winner: Sara Hov, for "Visiting"
Honorable Mention: Chris Tanseer, for "For My Father Who has Less to Say Now"
The Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Prize
Judge: Leslie Pietrzyk
Winner: Sara Hov, for "Remind Me What I Won"
The Dan Rudy Fiction Prize
Judge: Jessica Anthony
Winner: Ryan Call, for "Sometimes Babies Act like This and Who Are We to Question Them?"