Winners of the Writers’ Day Contest – 2008-09
Free Verse Poetry
1st – Charlotte San Juan, “Hey God”
2nd – Laura Whatley, Untitled Poem
3rd – Michael Torres, “Then”
Honorable Mention: Brendon Williams, “The Tickle Monster”
Honorable Mention: Corrina Garcia, “The World of Dreams”
Honorable Mention: David Herrera, “Let Your Hair Down, Sarah Palin”
Formal Poetry
1st – Cynthia Sasser, “Ghazal of Whishing”
2nd – Stacy Reznicek, “The Never Ending Cycle”
3rd – Shaymaa Mahmoud, “Jack Forder”
Honorable Mention: Brendon Williams, “Familiar Games”
Honorable Mention: Pauline Bereiter, “Ode to a Western Toilet”
Fiction
1st –Charlotte San Juan, “Something Somebody Wrote about Sisters and Snails”
2nd –Laura Whatley, “My Stupid Half-Brother”
3rd – Chad Lynn, “Understanding”
Honorable Mention: David Herrera, “The Streetlight Serenade”
Honorable Mention: Daniel Cuesta, “If I Could Just Speak”
Genre Fiction
1st –Emily Robles, “A Haunting?”
2nd –Jung Liu, “Rapture in REM”
3rd – Charlotte San Juan, “Apple Pie”
Honorable Mention: Rhonda Hottman, “The Bequest”
Honorable Mention: Heejoong Park, “Christmas Day in New York City”
Critical Essay
1st –Candace Cortez, “Restrictions”
2nd –Jasmine Foo, “Two Wrongs Are not a Right”
3rd – Luis Alberto Gomez, “Analytical Retrospection with Orwell’s Perspective”
Honorable Mention: Andrea Phillips, “Nature and the Mind”
Honorable Mention: Shaymaa Mahmoud, “As I Lay Dying: Addie’ing to Expectations”
Autobiography/ Personal Journal
1st –Marta Chausee, “How to Make a New Life for Yourself”
2nd –Natalie Morales, “A House Full of Women with no Razors”
3rd – David Montanez, “Give Me One Moment in Time”
Honorable Mention: Sandy Lopez, “My Coming Out Party”
Honorable Mention: Michael Torres, “Sunburned Lips” |