Tag Archives: contest

Below is an e-mail I received recently in regards to a contest I entered earlier this year.

Congratulations to all who won. No contest is easy to enter. You are putting your writing out there and hoping it will attract the right readers and judges. Among the judges for these contest categories are nationally and even internationally known writers, for example, Michael Knight, The Typist, and Glenn Meade, Resurrection Day, as well as published and awarding-winning poets William Pitt Root and Pam Uschuk. Now, if you look under the Crime/Mystery category you find that the first-place winner is (and this is the shameless self-promotion) me. I won for submitting a section of my novel, The Painted Beast, about a once-lionized cop who finds true heroism in saving his family and in so doing saving himself.

Anyway, here is the e-mail:

Thanks to everybody for waiting so patiently for our contest to wrap up. Winners were announced at the October guild meeting and have been posted to the KWG web site, but I wanted to follow up via email as well for the sake of those who didn’t make it to the meeting and who may not have their eyes trained on the web site. Prizes were awarded as follows:

Leslie Garrett Prize – judged by Michael Knight, Author
1. ) Milk House Water, by Rita Welty Bourke
2. ) A Fine Party, by Phyllis Gobbell

SciFi/Fantasy – judged by Debra Dixon, Publisher, Belle Bridge Books
1. ) Remi Bids Farewell, by Wendy Jo Rogers
2. ) Flight of the Victory, by Zachariah Foster
3. ) The Gersemian Relic, by Jeff L. Horner

Crime/Mystery – judged by Glen Meade, Author
1. ) The Painted Beast, by David E. Booker
2. ) Wheels of Justice, by Robert W. Godwin
3. ) World of their Own, by Mark Freeman

Novel Excerpt – judged by Dr. Alan Wier, Professor of English, UT, Knoxville
1. ) Where You Ought to Be, by Jane Sasser

Creative Nonfiction – judged by John Adams, Author
1. ) True Love, One Story in the Life of an Innkeeper, by Stephanie Levy
2. ) Where There’s Smoke, by Eli Mitchell
3. ) Playing by Ear, by Phyllis Gobbell

Poetry – judged by William Pitt Root and Pam Uschuk, Poets
1. ) Jane Sasser
2. ) Eli Mitchell
3. ) Cathy Kodra

Youth Poetry – judged by William Pitt Root and Pam Uschuk, Poets
1. ) Noah Gurley
2. ) Christian Cain
3. ) Eric Nutter

Youth Fiction – judged by Flossy McNabb, Co-Owner Union Avenue Books
1. ) Melancholy Discord, by Isabel Gellert
2. ) Follow Your Hands, by Vanessa Slay
3. ) Deciding Justice, by Alyssa J. Stewart

Plays – judged by Dr. Deborah Anderson, Professor of Theater, MTSU
1. ) Sold, by Mark McGinley

Thanks for entering the contest. We look forward to reading another great batch of entries next year.

The KWG Contest Committee
www.knoxvillewritersguild.org