Best in Show (prose): Dustin Earl “Kami No Itte”
Best in Show (poetry): Isaac Timm “Beast-man”
1. Short fiction:
1st Amahl (Scott Tarbet)
2nd Aren’t You the Kid? (Denis Feehan)
3rd And Once She Could Fly (Chadd VanZanten)
Honorable Mentions:
Dirty
George (Jef Huntsman)
The
Right Note (Anne Stark)
Just
Wait for the Answer (Chadd VanZanten)
2. Short genre fiction:
1st The Boy Who Could Not Sleep (Denis Feehan)
2nd The Half Door (Crystal Vail)
3rd Daphne, the Girl in the Armor (Amanda
Luzzader)
Honorable Mentions:
The
Screensaver’s Footprints (Jeffery Bateman)
Lovecraft’s Pillow (Scott Forman)
The Albatross (Jennifer Stevens)
3. Flash:
1st Initiation (Millie Tullis)
2nd The Thaw (Karla Jay)
3rd Ghost Herder (Emily Wheeler)
Honorable Mentions:
Déjà Vu
(Sherrie Lynn Clarke)
Home
(Sabrina Watts)
Road to Nowhere (Amanda Luzzader)
4. Creative nonfiction:
1st Kami No Itte (Dustin Earl)
2nd Tete-a-Tete: The Secret Language of Hair
(Felicia Rose)
3rd Shooter (Jeffery Bateman)
Honorable Mentions:
My
Pick-Me-Up (Lora Stead)
The Libertine (Felicia Rose)
Klatch
(Timothy James)
5. First chapter (Novel):
1ST Pretender to the Crown (Melissa McShane)
2nd A Shot at Justice (Karla Jay)
3rd Camdon Cain (Christauna Asay)
Honorable Mentions:
Memoirs
of a Synth: Gold Record (Lyn Worthen)
Clocking
Out (Margot Hovley)
The
Passenger (Gregory Deluca)
6. First chapter (YA):
1st The Runes of
Rahmanhatenweep (James Beers)
2nd Snakes Are
Terrible at Running Away (Abby Thorne)
3rd Killing Nightmares
(Leah Garriott)
Honorable Mentions:
Snotty’s
Revenge (Robin Glassey)
The
Fox on Fire (Rosalie Ledezma)
The
Sea Child (Carol Nicolas)
7. Romance:
1st Across the Lines (Emily Wheeler)
2nd Beyond Dracula (Kendra Ellis)
3rd Intersections (Lyn Worthen)
Honorable Mentions:
Maple
Mind Madness (Lori Parker)
The
Union (Dawnene Wilson)
Rite of
Passage (Linne Marsh)
8. Media article:
1st On Writing: Never,
Never, Never Quit (unless you should) (Jeffery Bateman)
2nd A Good Death
(Marie Tollstrup)
3rd Surviving SIDS
(Sherrie Lynn Clarke)
Honorable Mentions:
Observation
of an Apprentice (Lyn Worthen)
Rows
of Flags—Too Close to Home (Jeffery Bateman)
Harnessing
Your Design Personality (Sue Leth)
9. Children’s book:
1st Blending (Christy Monson)
2nd Sawyer Grace Ropes a Calf (Jeffery
Bateman)
3rd The Best Cheesy Sandwich Ever (Wayne
Gledhill)
Honorable Mentions:
Willowbee’s
Workshop (Jeffrey Huenke)
Bedtime
Battle (Christy Monson)
Everyone
Up Front (Megan Jones)
10. Encore prose:
1st The Thriller Book Killer
(Shirley Spain)
2nd Living Pictures (Sherrie Lynn Clarke)
3rd Wordless (Emily Wheeler)
Honorable Mentions:
The
Scarlet Letter 2.0 (Julie Walton)
Razor Wire (Lorraine Jeffery)
A Little Magic (Carol Nicolas)
11. Narrative poetry:
1st Beast-man (Isaac Timm)
2nd Mirror Worlds (Stephen Proskauer)
3rd They Dance to “Fly Me to the Moon” (Millie
Tullis)
Honorable Mentions:
Little
Birds in Love (Shirley Manning)
Beyond
Icarus (Shirley Manning)
Optimist
Prime (Isaac Timm)
12. Light verse:
1st Engaged or Not (Grace Jessen)
2nd Only in the Ditches (Lorraine Jeffery)
3rd Homonymium (Jef Huntsman)
Honorable Mentions:
Unlocked
(John Olsen)
Computer
Drain (Robyn Buttars)
An Echo
(Trish Hopkinson)
13. Humor:
1st For Thumb’s Sake (Marie Tollstrup)
2nd Bray (Joshua Sorensen)
3rd Click (Lori McDonald)
Honorable Mentions:
Sweetie
(Millie Tullis)
Ode to Sills (Marie Tollstrup)
Growling
Toilet (Jef Huntsman)
14. Word play poetry:
1st The Octopus (Denis Feehan)
2nd The Naked Me (Amanda Luzzader)
3rd Grand Canyon Canopy (Marie Tollstrup)
Honorable Mentions:
Facing
Despair (Jeremy Gohier)
Mollusk
II (Trish Hopkinson)
Embraceable
Me (Marilyn Richardson)
15. Encore poetry:
1st Unsuspecting (Robyn Buttars)
2nd Hard Saddle on a Cold Day (Jeffery
Bateman)
3rd Message from a Crow (Shirley Manning)
Honorable Mentions:
Embers (Marie Tollstrup)
White Peaches (Irene Hastings)
Raccoon Shuffle (Marie Tollstrup)