"CALIFORNIA GOLD" WINNERS

Category—POETRY—Rhymed
Judge: Lee Ann Russell, author of How to Write Poetry—Ballad to Villanelle
(73 Entries)

Category—POETRY—Unrhymed
Judge: Maria Garcia Teutsch, editor of Homestead Review, Hartnell College
(221 Entries)

1st Place ($250)	Marian K. Shapiro	Lexington, Massachusetts	Non-member	Title: Rape
1st Honorable Mention	Helga Kidder	Chattanooga, Tennessee	Non-member	Title: X-Poem
2nd Honorable Mention	Aaron K. DiFranco	San Francisco, California	Non-member	Title: Garden Guerrillas in the City
3rd Honorable Mention	Claude Blackwood	Memphis, Tennesse	Non-member	Title: Moose

Category—PROSE—Short Fiction
Judge: J. Roderick Clark, Editor of Rosebud Magazine
(51 Entries)

1st Place ($250)	Robert Walton	King City, California	Non-member	Title: Like a Thorny Child
1st Honorable Mention	Harold E. Grice	Salinas, California	Member Central Coast Writers Branch	Title: The Mystery of Missing Things
2nd Honorable Mention	Mark Twain Donnolo Beren	Monterey, California	Member Central Coast Writers Branch	Title: The Rest of the Story of the Celebrated Jumping Frog (as Simon Wheeler might have told it if he hadn’t been called to the front yard.)
3rd Honorable Mention	Donnolo Beren	Monterey, California	Member: Central Coast Writers Branch	Title: The Prisoner

Category—PROSE—Short Non-fiction
Judge: Barbara Callahan Quin, Editor of Great Spirit Publishing
(61 Entries)

1st Place ($250)	Tia Creighton	Redwood City, California	Member SF/Peninsula Branch	Title: I Blame Dorothy Hamill
1st Honorable Mention	Ange Crawford	Corvallis, Oregon	Non-member	Title: Flamenco Dancing on My Heart
2nd Honorable Mention	Bob Weiss	Bakersfield, California	Member Writers of Kern Branch	Title: High School Reunion
3rd Honorable Mention	Cheri Love	Monterey, California	Member Central Coast Writers Branch	Title: Memo to Self