2008 Contest winners

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1. WCCW Award - Short Story, Mystery. 3000 Words Maximum - Sponsored by White County Creative Writers .
!st Place - Ellen Withers Bullet Named Revenge
2nd Place - Sara Gipson Puncture
3rd Place -Steve Whisnant Down Will Come Baby
1HM -Madelyn F. Young Behind Closed Doors
2HM - Freeda Baker Nichols The New Grave at Settlement Cemetery
3HM - Christine Henderson Watched

2. RobertsFamilyArk - Short story, friends and enemies. Story must contain friends who have become enemies, or enemies who have become friends. 2000 Words Maximum. Sponsored by the Roberts Family
1st Place - Rob Thornton Shadow Boxing
2nd Place - Laura Loomis Rubik's Cube
3rd Place - Steve Whisnant Dear Friendenemy
1HM - Lorna Stone Almost
2HM - Arline Chandler The Secrets of Weird Wanda
3HM Freeda Baker Nichols Crab Apple's First Christmas

3. Second Childhood Award - Rhymed Poetry - Subject: "Being Twelve" 50 lines maximum Sponsor: Glassworks Ink (link)
1st Place - Kathleen Whitman Plucker Waiting for 13
2nd Place - Jeri Holmes Nineteen Sixty Two
3rd Place - Sara Gipson Being Twelve
1HM - Debbie C. Lincoln Being Twelve Again
2HM - Earl Smith A Lesson Learned at Age Twelve
3HM - Carolyn Boyles Being Twelve

4. Tell me A Story Short Story - pretend you are a road, a car, or a house, and write a story from its point of view. 1500 words maximum Sponsor: Jean Gipson
1st Place - Del Garrett For Sale: This Old House
2nd Place - Steve Whisnant This Road, I stretch on Forever
3rd Place - Karen Blondeau Estate Sale
1HM - Dean Henning Just Like Old Times
2HM - Neville Martin Month of May
3HM -Buddy Hanks A Racy Affair

5. Tumbleweed Award Western Novel - Three chapters, synopsis, and query letter Sponsor: Dusty Richards
1st Place - Arline Chandler The Unhuntable Bear
2nd Place - Sara Gipson The Trouble With Truth
3rd Place - Laura Loomis Barn-Burner
1HM - Cory Allen Cox The Hard Land

6. Family Matters Award - Essay on a person in your family of significance to you. 2000 words maximum Sponsor: Debra Middleton
1st Place - Mary Chandler Dear Jared
2nd Place - Elizabeth Orendorr My Husband
3rd Place - Ellen Wiothers Bittersweet Weekend
1HM - Barbara Boothe Loyd A Woman for All Seasons
2HM Fay Risner Grandma's Legacy

7. LovePat Press Award Blank Verse ( iambic pentameter, unrhymed) Subject: any astronomical event, past or present

Awards will include $5.00 each for HM/s

Sponsor: Pat Laster
1st Place - Jim Barton The Night of the Leonids
2nd Place - Freeda Baker Nichols Tornado on the Ground
3rd Place - Catherine Moran Asteroid Belt

8. Central Arkansas Writers Award Short Story, suitable for publication in a magazine for women 1500 words maximum Sponsor: Central Arkansas Writers
1st Place Eileen Krause Sara's Gift
2nd Place - Malu Graham Cover-Up
3rd Place - Ellen Withers Dancing for Love
1HM - Elizabeth Orendorff Company for Dinner
2HM Wanda Dean Do Unto Others
3HM Gary R Hoffman Grandmas

9. Searcy Living Award - Essay: "How I can make my community a better place to live." 600 words maximum Sponsor: Searcy Living Magazine
1st Place - Sara Gipson How I Can Make My Community a Better Place to Live
2nd Place - Steve Whisnant We Can Do Better, Ya'll
3rd Place - Gary R. Hoffman My Extended Community

10. The Red, White, and Blue Award - Review of a favorite or recently read book 1000 words maximum Sponsor: Dorothy Hatfield 1st Place - Jim Barton A Great Wind
2nd Place - Steve Whisnant Local Writing Groups Show Talent
3rd Place - Faye Williams Jones Gift of a Letter
1HM Amy Gray Light Rhett Butler's People
2HM - Sharon H. Bailey An Elm Creek Quilts Sampler
3HM - Lorna Stone The Host

11. Bob Jones and Faye Williams Jones Poetry Award Free Verse, any subject 40 lines maximum Sponsor: Bob Jones and Faye Williams Jones
1st Place - Eileen Krause X. Halt, Salute
2nd Place - Catherine Moran A Review of the Situation
3rd Place - Dean Henning Pulse of the Concrete
1HM - Jim Barton Long Distance
2HM - Rita Dortsch Home
3HM - Gary R. Hoffman A Face in the Stream

12. Ellen Withers Award Short Story - Anything Goes! ( any subject) 3000 words maximum Sponsor: Ellen Withers
1st Place - Malu Graham Beautiful Flower
2nd Place - Elizabeth Orendorff My Son
3rd Place - Jan Sherbin Tanya's Embarrassing Secret
1HM - Sara Gipson The Love of Her Life
2HM - Ruth H. Weeks Bubble Gum Messages
3HM - Jim Barton Sleeping with Mr. Right
Special HM - Megan Bright The Great Food Fight

13. Hemingway-Pfeiffer Award Fictional Essay - "Dinner with Ernest" 1500 words maximum Sponsor: Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, Piggott, Arkansas (link)
1st Place - Rita Dortch Dinner with Ernest
2nd Place - Helen M. Austin Dinner with Ernest (And Hadley and Scott and Zelda)
3rd Place - Ellen E. Withers Dinner with Ernest...Almost
1HM - Faye Williams Jones An Invitation to Dinner with Ernest
2HM - Gary R. Hoffman An Unexpected Dinner
3HM - Carolyn Boyles Dinner with Ernest

Congratulations to all of you!

White County Creative Writers - P.O.Box 9122-Searcy, AR 72145