
Contest winners at the Banquet
with keynote speaker Natalie Campon
(back, center)
(all winning entries will be
linked soon)
Adult Poetry
1
Fiat Lux – Catherine Moran,
Little Rock, AR
2
Metronomes – Marla Cantrell,
Rudy, AR
3
The New Lazarus – Lauren Jedlan, New
Orleans,
LA.
HM
Riding Marta - Douglas Matthew Crotty,
Carriere, MS
HM
Convent Garden Nun – Jennifer R. Oliver, Gulfport MS
HM Driver's Seat – Douglas Matthew Crotty,
Carriere, MS
HM Tone on Tone – Diane Miller,
Gulfport, MS
Young
Writers Fiction
1 Ding --
Dallas
Nicole Woodburn,
Ventura, CA
2
Selpicids -- Diantha
Ann Williamson,
Hattiesburg, MS
3
Just Friends --
Dallas
Nicole Woodburn,
Ventura, CA
HM
Army Men -- Joshua Spiro,
Forest Hills, NY
HM The Land Called Trisun --
Katie Zoeller,
Wilton, CT
Young Writers Poetry
1
No Tacos at Sonic --
Kelly Nichols,
Ocean Springs, MS
2
Stories -- Lindsey
Cotman, Pass
Christian, MS
3
Paradise -- Rebecca Jordan Cohoon,
Ocean Springs, MS
HM My City of
Dallas
-- Lindsey Maxon,
Arlington, TX
HM Sunset -- Melissa Dent,
Ocean Springs, MS
HM One Chance -- Kristen
Turnage,
Gulfport, MS
Adult Non-Fiction
1
The Destruction of Amtrak's Sunset Limited at Bayou
Canot --
Gary Farmer,
Long Beach, MS
2
Grandfather, It's Me, Bernie -- Benjamin Carp,
Marco Island, FL
3
The Summer Cottage -- Michael Groetsch,
Kenner,
LA / HM
3
Lucifer -- Monte Greenway, Bay
Saint Louis,
MS
HM Family Letters
– Claudia Cuevas, Pass Christian, MS
HM My Dubie’s Shoes -- Monte Greenway, Bay Saint Louis, MS
Adult Fiction
1
His Best Asset – Linda Chubbuck,
West Palm Beach,
FL
2
Elegy -- Diane Miller,
Gulfport, MS
3
Careless Weed – Jim Finley,
Friendswood,
TX
HM New in Town -- Shay Nicole Malpass,
Biloxi,
MS
HM
Avon
Calling – Lynn Veach Sadler, Sanford NC