Literary Contest Results
| Prose | Poetry |
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Prose Categories
Prose Contest Manager: Margaret Shauers , District 4
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Short Story |
80 entries |
Judge: Michael Hathaway: editor of Chiron Review for 24 years. Ten books of poetry and one book of prose published, plus more than 300 individual published poems, stories and essays. |
1 |
Andrea Price Berthot |
Prairie Madness |
NM |
Winfield |
2 |
James D. Wright |
The Gathering |
D5 |
Bel Air |
3 |
Anne Mart |
Are You All Right? |
D6 |
Hutchinson |
HM |
Marjorie Gentry |
And the People Say "Amen" |
D6 |
Beloit |
HM |
Ralph Allen |
Springtime for Sonny |
D5 |
Wichita |
Feature Article |
38 entries |
Judge: Susan Thacker: reporter for the Great Bend Tribune, writer and editor at newspapers in Kansas and Oklahoma since 1983. |
1 |
Nancy Julien Kopp |
A True Fairy Tale |
D4 |
Manhattan |
2 |
Arlene Rains Graber |
Worms Interest This 21-Year-Old |
D5 |
Wichita |
3 |
Leona Dillard |
Witness |
D6 |
Hutchinson |
HM |
Judie R. Miller |
Kudos to the Gadget Lady |
D1 |
Topeka |
HM |
Mary-Lane Kamberg |
Should You Self-Publish? |
D2 |
Olathe |
| HM |
Marshall Clark |
Lobbying As an Art |
D1 |
Topeka |
Memoir
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76 entries |
Judge: Anya Foos-Graber: writer, lecturer, minister and farm worker. Her nonfiction book, Deathing, is in print in English, French and German. She has published two volumes of poetry and many single poems, short stories and articles. |
1 |
Nedra Rogers |
Mammalian |
NM |
Lawrence |
2 |
Duane Johnson |
Mrs. Howard's Woods |
NM |
Topeka |
3 |
Joann Williams |
The Day Segregation Died |
D2 |
Princeton |
HM |
Harold Piehler |
An Old-Fashioned Teacher |
D2 |
Lawrence |
HM |
Naomi Patterson |
Queen Puff |
D1 |
Topeka |
Story for Children
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47 entries |
Judge: Shirley Ramaley: 300 published credits, with 1/3 of those for children. Has published in all the top children’s magazines, plus writes for SIRS/Proquest, Harcourt Assessments and Mc-Graw Hill educational lines. |
1 |
Mary-Lane Kamberg |
On the Home Front |
D2 |
Olathe |
2 |
Nancy Julien Kopp |
Follow the Clues |
D4 |
Manhattan |
3 |
Carol Yoho |
All Before Breakfast |
D1 |
Topeka |
HM1 |
Naomi B. Patterson |
A Myth Explaining How Water Turns/Spring |
D1 |
Topeka |
HM2 |
Kaye Towle |
The Dragon's Deal |
NM |
Hutchinson |
Inspiration
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38 entries |
Judge: Shel Bates: writer of parody, has published hymns. Writes fiction, poetry and has one western novel hidden in the back of her closet. |
1 |
Kristine A. Polansky |
A Little Kissing, a Little Hugging |
D1 |
Topeka |
2 |
Lorena Joyce Herrmann |
Having a Stroke is Not Fun, But Recovery Is! |
D7 |
Offerle |
3 |
Dorothy Jenks |
Barnabas |
D7 |
Lakin |
HM |
Beverly Lyons |
Live Every Moment |
D2 |
Fulton |
HM |
Katherine Dinsdale |
Just How a Velvet Jesus Blessed My Soul |
D2 |
Lawrence |
Historical Research |
10 entries |
Judge: Roger Pommeranke: published historical writer, long-time tech writer.. |
1 |
Roxie Olmstead |
The Scully Land of Butler County |
D5 |
Augusta |
2 |
Roxie Olmstead |
The Haskin House |
D5 |
Augusta |
3 |
Gladys Goering |
Abolitionists in Bonnets |
D5 |
Moundridge |
HM |
Marjorie Gentry |
The Last Anglo-Saxon King of England |
D6 |
Beloit |
HM |
Mary-Lane Kamberg |
Quantrill's Revenge |
D2 |
Olathe |
| HM |
Joann Williams |
Physician, Heal Thyself |
D2 |
Princeton |
First Five Pages of a Book
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28 entries |
| Judge: Laurel Schunk: former KAC member & long-time published novelist. Owns St. Kitts Press in Wichita a Christian publisher. |
1 |
Duane Johnson |
The Boy Who Wouldn't Dance the Hokey Pokey |
NM |
Topeka |
2 |
Ervin E. Grant |
The Essene Conspiracy |
NM |
El Dorado |
3 |
Sam Pierson |
Elizabeth Ann Moran: Child Busybody |
D2 |
Lebo |
HM |
Joann Williams |
The Unknown Outlaw |
D2 |
Princeton |
HM |
Keith Armstrong |
Pinky Swear |
NM |
Topeka |
Theme: Paint Your Canvas with Words |
38 entries |
| Judge: Ruth Moon Kempher: two-time Faulkner gold-medal winner (both prose and poetry). Widely published in both writing arenas. Owns Kings Estate Press in St. Augustine, Florida. |
| 1 |
Joann Williams |
What the Canvas Reveals |
D2 |
Princeton |
| 2 |
Teresa Oliver |
Gully Sitting |
NM |
Burlingame |
| 3 |
Trudy McFarland |
A Letter Home |
D1 |
Topeka |
| HM |
Sam Pierson |
A Dress for All Occasions |
D2 |
Lebo |
| HM |
Leona Dillard |
Reflection |
D6 |
Hutchinson |
