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Creative Writing

2009 Creative Writing Contest Winners

Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Poetry
Winner:  Emily Viggiano, Bob Ross Paints You a Rosy Picture

Mark Craver Poetry Award
Winner:  Robb St. Lawrence, When I Die/I'll Die in Lancaster, Ohio
Honorable Mention:  Amy Garrett Brown, Ruidoso, New Mexico 1988

Virginia Downs Poetry Award
Winner:  Eleanor Tipton, Strange Climate

Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Award
Winner:  Ethan Edwards, Blinkers in Unison
Honorable Mention:  Amy Garrett Brown, Sky Blue; Angie Mazakis, Love and Containment


Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Fiction
Winner:   Rebecca McGill, Tell the Children
Honorable Mention:  Elizabeth Eshelman, You Who are Weary; Corey Beasley, Some Blank and Etchable Place; and Priyanka Champaneri, Responsibility


Dan Rudy Fiction Award
Winner: Nicole Lee, All Radio Ga Ga
Honorable Mention: Tim Rowe, Pursuit


Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Award
Winner:  Sara Flood, From the Factory Where They Manufacture Blue
Honorable Mention:  Priyanka Champaneri, The Coconut Seller


Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Nonfiction
Winner:  Judy Adkins, A Little Dickens