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2009
Springfield Writers' Guild
16th Annual Literary Awards
JIM STONE GRAND PRIZE MEMORIAL AWARD
Each of the following three categories will have a $100
first place prize winner and two honorable mentions. All
winners will receive a certificate. There is a $3 fee for
each entry. See Guidelines Section for full details.
- Poetry can use any subject and any form limited to one single spaced page
- Fiction can use any subject limited to 1,500 words
- Non-Fiction can use any subject limited to 1,500 words
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The entry fee for each of the remaining nine categories is $2. There will be four awards:
- $20 First Place
- $10 Second Place
- $5 Third Place
- Honorable Mention
Certificates will be awarded for all winners.
Prose:
Prose entries are limited to 1,000 words
- Essay or Article - - Ozarks Related
- Short Story - - Any Genre
- Nostalgia/Reminiscence
- Humor - - Any Subject
- Essay or Opinion Piece
Poetry:
Poetry entries are limited to one single spaced page
- Rhyming - - Any Subject and Any Form
- Comic Verse - - Any Form
- Free Verse - - Any Subject
- Haiku - - Traditional (5, 7, 5 - - Nature Theme)
Guidelines for Entries:
- Alll entries must be the original, unpublished work of the contestant.
- Do not enter the same prose or poetry in more than one category.
- All manuscripts must be typed on 8 1/2 X 11 paper in standard manuscript form.
- Prose must be double spaced.
- Poetry must be single spaced.
- Except for Haiku, all entries must have a title.
- Place the category name and number, plus the number of
words (for prose) in the upper left corner of each entry. List
the poetry form where applicable.
- DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE ENTRY. Include a cover
sheet listing ALL entries by category name and number, title,
and the first line of the manuscript or poem. Put your name,
address, phone number and e-mail address on the cover sheet.
- Keep all originals, no copies will be returned. No entries or
winners will be published.
- Winners will be announced and awards given at the October,
2009 regular SWG meeting or mailed to those unable to attend.
- DEADLINE: All entries must be postmarked no later than
October 1, 2009. SWG is not responsible for lost, misdirected, or postage-due entries.
- For a list of winners, please include a SASE with you entry.
- No limit on entries per category. However, no entrant may win
more than one award per category entered, regardless of the number of entries.
- Make all checks payable to the Springfield Writers' Guild Contest
MAIL CONTEST FEES AND ENTRIES TO:
Dr. Jerry Wible, SWG Contest
2987 E. Kemmling Lane
Springfield, MO 65804
For more information: e-mail Mandy Barke at: mandybarke@yahoo.com or call her
at: (417) 830-7660
Alternately, call Jerry Wible at: (417)-8370 or e-mail him at: jwible@sbcglobal.net
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2009 Winners:
JIM STONE MEMORIAL AWARD
Grand Prize Poetry:
- 1st Place, Larry Cunningham, Willard MO, for "A Family Legacy"
- Honorable Mention, Joanne Ryan-Evans, Mansfield MO, for "Wheat Weavers"
- Honorable Mention, Carol Carpenter, Livonia MI, for "Bag Full of Fall"
Grand Prize Fiction:
- 1st Place, D. Beecher Smith II, Memphis TN, for "On the Dock at Great Tan"
- Honorable Mention, Shirley McCann, Springfield MO, for "Rest In Peace"
- Honorable Mention, Steve Whisnant, Little Rock AR, for "Break and Pop"
Grand Prize Nonfiction:
- 1st Place, Faye Williams Jones, North Little Rock AR, for "Blood on Halloween: A True Account"
- Honorable Mention, Larry Cunningham, Willard MO for "The Nature Knight Man"
- Honorable Mention, Garnet Hunt White, Doniphan MO, for "Can a Lie be True?"
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15th ANNUAL SWG PROSE AND POETRY AWARDS
Prose-Essay or Article-Ozarks Rleated:
- 1st Place, Marilyn K. Smith, Fair Grove MO, for "Jake Fleagle Captured at Branson Depot"
- 2nd Place, Steve Whisnant, Little Rock AR, for "My Mountain Home"
- 3rd Place, Faye Williams Jones, North Little Rock AR, for "Ozarks Reunion"
- Honorable Mention, Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy, Neosho MO, for "Moving to the Ozarks"
Prose-Short Story:
- 1st Place, Faye Williams Jones, North Little Rock AR, for "There Is No Rule"
- 2nd Place, Malu Graham, Memphis TN, for "Grandma Hettie's Ghost"
- 3rd Place, Joyce Ragland, Lebanon MO, for "Rock-Picking"
- Honorable Mention, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Planet Gone to the Dogs"
Prose-Nostalgia/Reminiscence:
- 1st Place, Rosemary Dunn Moeller, St. Lawrence SD, for "Enchanted Attention"
- 2nd Place, D. Beecher Smith II, Memphis TN, for "Cold War Christmas"
- 3rd Place, Jacquelyne R. Mountcastle, Springfield MO, for "Just one more time"
- Honorable Mention, Charles D. King, Springfield MO, for "Blue Jeans"
Prose-Humor:
- 1st Place, Charles D. King, Springfield MO, for "Liquor Store"
- 2nd Place, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Heavenly Hooey"
- 3rd Place, Steve Whisnant, Little Rock AR, for "Stinker"
- Honorable Mention, Sara Gipson, North Little Rock AR, for "Friendly Encounter"
Prose-Essay:
- 1st Place, Patricia J. Woodward, Springfield MO, for "Dogs Know Best"
- 2nd Place, Larry Cunningham, Willard MO, for "Officially Old"
- 3rd Place, Faye Williams Jones, North Little Rock AR, for "Rejoice in the Chemo Treatments"
- Honorable Mention, Carleta Goodwin Fernandes, Amarillo TX, for "Books..Books"
Poetry-Rhyming:
- 1st Place, Joyce O'Neal, Springfield MO, for "A Soldier's prayer"
- 2nd Place, Reta Stewart Allen, Springfield MO, for "The Unplanned Child"
- 3rd Place, Lee Ann Russell, Springfield MO, for "Perennials"
- Honorable Mention, Charles K. Firmage, Boise ID, for "Potatoes in the Ashes"
Poetry-Comic Verse:
- 1st Place, Larry Cunningham, Willard MO, for "Discipline"
- 2nd Place, Malu Graham, Memphis TN, for "Tis an Ill Wind"
- 3rd Place, Florence Bruce, Memphis TN, for "In Defense of Pet Rocks"
- Honorable Mention, Lee Ann Russell, Springfield MO, for "Author Exclusion"
Poetry-Free Verse:
- 1st Place, D. Beecher Smith II, Memphis TN, for "Leonardo's Model"
- 2nd Place, Charles K. Firmage, Boise ID, for "Were You Ever Bit by a Dead Bee?"
- 3rd Place, Vicki Wheeler, Las Vegas NV, for "Are You There?"
- Honorable Mention, Lee Ann Russell, Springfield MO, for "Hankies"
Poetry-Haiku:
- 1st Place, Roberta Page, Lebanon MO, for "purple martins coax"
- 2nd Place, Carol Dee Meeks, Tulsa OK, for "seasons' stormy week"
- 3rd Place, Lee Ann Russell, Springfield MO, for "wooly bug crawls by"
- Honorable Mention, D. Beecher Smith II, Memphis TN, "bread crumbs tossed on snow"
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2008 Winners:
JIM STONE MEMORIAL AWARD
Grand Prize Poetry:
- 1st Place, Lee Ann Russell, Springfield MO, for "Bridges and Doors"
- 1st Honorable Mention, Carol Carpenter, Livonia MI, for "Lilacs Bloom in the Vacant Lot"
- 2nd Honorable Mention, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Drought"
Grand Prize Fiction:
- 1st Place Charles D King, Springfield MO, for "Just An Old Toy Ring"
- 1st Honorable Mention, Steve Whisnant, Little Rock AR, for "Average"
- 2nd Honorable Mention, Faye Williams Jones, N Little Rock AR, for "In the Waiting Room
After..."
Grand Prize Nonfiction:
- 1st Place, Steve Whisnant, Little Rock AR, for "Confessions of a Young Drunk"
- 1st Honorable Mention, Doyle Suit, ST Charles MO, for "Backfire'"
- 2nd Honorable Mention, Lydia Suarez, Verona NJ, for "Pale Northern Legs"
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14th ANNUAL SWG PROSE AND POETRY AWARDS
Prose-Essay or Article-Ozarks Rleated:
- 1st Place, Marilyn K Smith, Fair Grove MO, for "In Spite Of The Revenuer's Threat"
- 2nd Place, Doyle Suit, ST Charles MO, for "Sparse Cotton"
- 3rd Place, Sara Gipson, N Little Rock AR, for "Making Mountain Music"
- Honorable Mention, Faye Williams Jones, N Little Rock AR, for "The Wind Laughed"
Prose-Short Story:
- 1st Place, Doyle Suit, ST Charles MO, for "A Pig For Sarah"
- 2nd Place, Sara Gipson, N Little Rock AR, for "Living On ˇhe Edge"
- 3rd Place, Gary R Hoffman, Pensacola FL, for "Complicated Situation"
- Honorable Mention, Steve Whisnant, Little Rock AR, for "Photo Album"
Prose-Nostalgia/Reminiscence:
- 1st Place, Doyle Suit, ST Charles MO, for "Grandpa's Possum"
- 2nd Place, Faye Williams Jones, N Little Rock AR, for "Flour Sack Dresses"
- 3rd Place, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "The Summer Boys"
- Honorable Mention, Annette Geroy, Kerrville TX, for "A Bottle Filled with Sand"
Prose-Humor:
- 1st Place, Linda Elin Hammer, Philomath OR, for "Pushing My Buttons"
- 2nd Place, Nancy Shelton, Springfield MO, for "Chicken Dinner"
- 3rd Place, Reta Stewart Allen, Springfield MO, for "Cutting Back"
- Honorable Mention, Gary Hoffman, Pensacola FL, for "Nadine's"
Prose-Essay:
- 1st Place, Gary R Hoffman, Pensacola FL, for "The Age of Antiquity"
- 2nd Place, Almo Leslie McElmurry, Miller MO, for "What is Wrong with Our..."
- 3rd Place, Steve Whisnant, Little Rock AR, for "We Can Do Better, Y'all"
- Honorable Mention, Beverly Reid, Springfield MO, for "The Evolution of Sexual..."
Poetry-Rhyming:
- 1st Place, Linda Kay King, Springfield MO, for "In Days to Come"
- 2nd Place, Lee Ann Russell, Springfield MO, for "Bag Lady"
- 3rd Place, Catherine Moran, Little Rock AR, for "Thoughts on Being Picked"
- Honorable Mention, Jim Barton Huttig AR, for "Mexican Sunflower"
Poetry-Comic Verse:
- 1st Place, Marilyn K Smith, Fair Grove MO, for "The Day We Learned to Cuss"
- 2nd Place, Gary Hoffman, Pensacola FL, for "Cooter"
- 3rd Place, Lee Ann Russell, Springfield MO, for "Stuffed Stuffing Stuff"
- Honorable Mention, Vera Ogden Bakker, West Bountiful UT, for "The Bottle"
Poetry-Free Verse:
- 1st Place, Carol Carpenter, Livonia MI, for "New World Spices"
- 2nd Place, Faye Williams Jones, N Little Rock AR, for "Word Play"
- 3rd Place, Catherine Moran, Little Rock AR, for "Starting Over"
- Honorable Mention, Jerry-Mac Johnston, Springfield MO, for "Working Hands"
Poetry-Haiku:
- 1st Place, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "In a dying breeze"
- 2nd Place, Marilyn K Smith, Fair Grove MO, for "joyously flitting"
- 3rd Place, Jerri Hardesty, Briefield AL, for "Tempentuous boy "
- Honorable Mention, Sara Gipson, N Little Rock AR, for "Lacy ice crystals"
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2007 Winners:
JIM STONE MEMORIAL AWARD
Grand Prize Poetry:
- 1st Place, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Porch Swing"
- 1st Honorable Mention, Marian Kaplum Shapiro, Lexington MA, for "Editing It Down"
- 2nd Honorable Mention, Rosemary Moeller, St. Lawrence SD, for "I Lost My Son's Voice"
Grand Prize Fiction:
- 1st Place Travis King, Chickasha OK, for "Yellow Man"
- 1st Honorable Mention, Cynthia Reeg, Chesterfield MO, for "Christmas Treasures"
- 2nd Honorable Mention, Henry Greenfield, Miami FL, for "Dancing with Meyer Lansky"
Grand Prize Nonfiction:
- 1st Place, Faye Williams, Little Rock AR, for "Close Enough to Touch"
- 1st Honorable Mention, Beverly Reid, Springfield MO, for "Spellbound by 'Snowbound'"
- 2nd Honorable Mention, Patricia L Sanders, Foristell MO, for "Sins of the Season"
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14th ANNUAL SWG PROSE AND POETRY AWARDS
Prose-Article:
- 1st Place, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Hidden Value"
- 2nd Place, Sylvia Forbes, Fayette MO, for "Out for an Afternoon Stroll"
- 3rd Place, Sandy Jordan, Neosho MO, for "Ste. Genevieve, Missouri"
- Honorable Mention, Neil Chandler, Mountain Home AR, for "Sunset"
Prose-Short Story:
- 1st Place, Travis King, Chickasha OK, for "The Writer"
- 2nd Place, Laura Loomis, Pittsburg CA, for "The Sign"
- 3rd Place, Nancy Shelton, Springfield MO, for "The Repairman"
- Honorable Mention, Doyle Suit, St. Charles MO, for "A Pig for Lisa"
Prose-Nostalgia/Reminiscence:
- 1st Place, Karen W Waggoner, Flippin AR, for "Day of Terror"
- 2nd Place, Patricia L Sanders, Foristell MO, for "Down Home"
- 3rd Place, Peg Nichols, Olathe KS, for "Grasshopper Summer"
- Honorable Mention, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Just (almost) Like the Ones I..."
Prose-Humor:
- 1st Place, Neil Chandler, Mountain Home AR, for "Lazy Bones"
- 2nd Place, Jason Offutt, Maryville MO, for "It's All in How You Say It"
- 3rd Place, Elizabeth Orendorff, Uniontown AR, for "Company for Dinner"
- Honorable Mention, Charles D King, Springfield MO, for "The Truth Is"
Prose-Essay or Opinion:
- 1st Place, Rosemary Moeller, St. Lawrence SD, for "All I Can Do Today"
- 2nd Place, Faye Williams Jones, Little Rock AR, for "How to Write Parallel Poems"
- 3rd Place, Beverly Reid, Springfield MO, for "Who Loves the Toys?"
- Honorable Mention, Nancy Thatcher Cerny, Clarkridge AR, for "SHUT UP!"
Poetry-Rhyming:
- 1st Place, Charles D King, Springfield MO, for "Army of One"
- 2nd Place, Eugene Shea, Hanna WY, for "Straddling Fences"
- 3rd Place, Faye Williams Jones, Little Rock AR, for "In Chemo Chairs"
- Honorable Mention, Jim Barton Huttig AR, for "Chalk Daddy"
Poetry-Comic Verse:
- 1st Place, Eugene Shea, Hanna WY, for "Fixing Social Security"
- 2nd Place, Faye Boyette Wise, Benton AR, for "Unbrotherly Love"
- 3rd Place, Marilyn K Smith, Fair Grove MO, for "A Fact of Life"
- Honorable Mention, Lila Borg Rohrer, Victor IA, for "A I Hate Rules Poem"
Poetry-Free Verse:
- 1st Place, Jerry-Mac Johnston, Springfield MO, for "A Man Enjoys"
- 2nd Place, Michael E Strosahl, Elwood IN, for "Downsizing"
- 3rd Place, Ninette Freed, Palm Desert CA, for "Northern Exposure"
- Honorable Mention, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Late Apples"
Poetry-Haiku:
- 1st Place, Glenna Holloway, Naperville IL, for "Laughing grass..."
- 2nd Place, Jim Barton, Huttig AR, for "Firewood split..."
- 3rd Place, Faye Williams Jones, Little Rock AR, for "antique roses..."
- Honorable Mention, Eugene Shea Hanna WY, for "first robin..."
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