WYOMING WRITERS 2010 CONTEST RESULTS

 

2010 Wyoming Writers Contest Winners

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Novel Segments

Judged by Cindy Keen Reynders, a mystery author in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Over the years, she has won or placed in various writing contests. She has also written for and edited numerous newsletters. Additionally, she has sold several non-fiction magazine articles to "True West" and "Wild West." She is author of The Saucy Lucy Murders and Paws-itively Guilty.

First place: By Degree, by Gail Welde, Glendo, WY
Second place: The Tracker, Linda G. Vernon, Cheyenne, WY
Third place: Fortune's Favored Son, Constance Brewer, Gillette, WY

Free Verse

Judged by Chris Valentine, who writes poetry and non-fiction and is
published in many anthologies including Tipton Poetry Journal; Voicings From the High Country; High Plains Register; Hard Ground: Writing the Rockies III & IV; Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West, & The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. She is editor for the WyoPoets' Newsletter. Chris came to the west from England in 1964, she settled in Montana and worked for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe for 25 yrs. Chris is married with four grown step-children.

First place: Kuester's Lake, Tiffany L. Rehbein, Cheyenne, WY
 Second place: Saturday Night Fights, Barbara M. Smith, Rock Springs, WY
 Third place: Change of Venue, Joe Greig, Berrien Springs, MI
 Honorable mention: Shadow Side of Your Grave, Joe Greig, Berrien Springs, MI
 Honorable mention: Cry Then, Barbara M. Smith, Rock Springs, WY

Adult Fiction

Judged by John D. Nesbitt, a long-time member of Wyoming Writers and a firm believer in the value of our annual contest. His articles, reviews,
fiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He has had more than twenty books published, including short story collections, contemporary novels, and traditional westerns, as well as textbooks for his courses. John has won many awards for his work, including two for fiction from the Wyoming State Historical Society, two from Wyoming Writers for his encouragement of other writers and service to the organization, two Wyoming Arts Council literary fellowships, a Western Writers of America Spur finalist for mass market paperback original for Raven Springs, and the Spur for Trouble at Redstone. His latest published works are Poacher¹s Moon and Not a Rustler.

First place: Oleana, India Hayford, Casper, WY
Second place: Loyalty, Tom Spence, Buffalo, WY
Third place: The Affair, Vickie Goodwin, Douglas, WY
Honorable mention: Charlie's Place, Mark Brady, Casper, WY
Honorable mention: One Good Thing, Lorna Wadsworth, Atherton, CA

Humor

Judged by Gwen Petersen, who writes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and a weekly humor column. Gwen established the first Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering and the first Montana Cowboy Poetry Wintercamp. She writes and directs the annual Toot, Snoot 'n Hoot musical variety comedy show. Her book How to Shovel Manure and Other Life Lessons for the Country Woman won an award in the Midwest Independent Publishers Association. Her latest book is titled: Everything I Know About Life, I Learned from My Horse.

First place: (none)
Second place: The Challenge, Roxie Olmstead, Sheridan, WY
Third place: Muddled Meanderings of a Modern Day Mother, Cynthia Bower, Casper, WY

Traditional Poetry

Judged by Patricia Frolander, who writes: Boston , Massachusetts to
Sundance, Wyoming is more than many, many miles. It became a cultural
revolution for this twenty-four year old mother of three who had never seen a cow up close and personal. But forty years of ranching, raising children, and writing have been incredible blessings; the best being her husband of 48 years. The unpredictable weather, markets, and livestock, including life's ordinary mishaps, have engaged her to the fullest extent. Her writing is a reflection of the pleasure and pain found in this profession. Pat recently published a chapbook, Grassland Geneology, and her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies.

First place: Depths of Reddest Heart, William F. Stocks, Dixon, WY
Second place: Trillium Ovatum, Cornelius F. Kelly, Pinedale, WY
Third place: Slow Waltz at the End of the Day, Ellen Sue Blakey,
Thermopolis, WY
Honorable mention: Remembering, William F. Stocks, Dixon, WY
Honorable mention: Lost, DeeAnn B. Price, Daniel, WY

Fiction for Children

Known as the "Teacher Who Dances on his Desk", author/presenter and category judge Eugene M. Gagliano received Wyoming's 2003 International Reading Association's Celebrate Literacy Award, and the 2001 Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award. Some of his published works include C is for Cowboy, a Wyoming Alphabet; Four Wheels West, a Wyoming Number Book (a 2006-2007 Western Writers Spur Award nominee); Secret of the Black Widow (a 2004-2005 Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award nominee); Inside the Clown; Falling Stars;
My Teacher Dances on the Desk; and V is for Venus Flytrap, a Plant Alphabet. Gene has two new books being released this summer, and My Teacher Dances on the Desk recently made the 2010 Delaware Diamonds Book List (category grades 3-5). This is a children's choice award.

First place: Tin Man, Rex C. Meyers, Powell, WY
Second place: Sarah¹s Slider, Zoe Kalber, Big Piney, WY
Third place: Climbing the Family Tree, Roxie Olmstead, Sheridan, WY
Honorable mention: Megan¹s Trick or Treat, Ken McLaughlin, Pinedale,  WY
Honorable mention: The Meeting with King Aero, Madison Lehner, Douglas, WY

Non-fiction

Marcia Hensley who judged the non-fiction category of the 2010 Wyoming
Writers contest has been a member of Wyoming Writers since 1999. A graduate of the University of Tulsa (B.A. 1964; M.A. 1966) Hensley taught English and Western American Literature at Western Wyoming Community College where she directed the Western American Studies program. She is the recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council's Neltj Blanchan award for writing inspired by nature. Her essays have been published in Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the West; Hard Ground 2001: Writing in the Rockies; Eden Valley Voices: A Centennial Celebration of Stories and in the syndicated column "Writers on the Range." In 1909, her non-fiction book, Staking Her Claim, Women Homesteading the West won awards from the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association as well as from Women Writing the West, Wyoming Writers, Wyoming
Historical Society, and ForeWord Magazine.

First place: That June, Linda G. Vernon, Cheyenne, WY
Second place: The Windows of His Heart, Louise Lenahan Wallace, Port
Angeles, WA
Third place: Wyoming Storms, Esther Davison, Pine Bluffs, WY
Honorable mention: Shoshone Horses, Joe Grieg, Berrien Springs, MI
Honorable mention: A Thimble Full of Love, Loretta Jewell, Carpenter, WY