Califorina Writers Club • Central Coast Writers Branch
Central Coast Writers
The winning stories and poems can be read at the CCW website listed above
Congratulations to all winners, and thanks to everyone who entered and made this contest highly successful. We are especially pleased to announce that the 1st Place Award for Best Short Story has gone full circle around the country and has now come home--to be won by our own CCW member, Martin Dodd.
BEST SHORT STORY
MARTIN DODD
Salinas California
for his short story
"COLD TURKEY"
“. . a highly entertaining and insightful account of a Thanksgiving Day with two alcoholic parents.” Short Story Judge J. Roderick Clark, Editor, Rosebud Magazine.
2011 FINALISTS – Short Story Category
“UFUVE” by Maude Larke, Dijon, France
“THE GRACKLE TRAP” by John J. White, Merritt Island, Florida
“VALLEY OAK” by James Sievert, Malibu, California
Total number of entries received was 374: 282 poems and 92 stories. Number of entrants was 179. Most lived across the United States, with 14 entries coming from Canada, France, Italy and Israel. The Contest Committee included Joyce Krieg, who helped with publicity; Mike Thomas, contest production; Deanne Gwinn, accounting; Wanda Sue Parrott, administration and publicity via her National Senior Poets Laureate network as “California $500” at www.amykitchenerfdn.org Judges were: Poetry--Maria Garcia Teutsch, editor of Homestead Review, Hartnell College, Salinas, California; Short Story--J. Roderick Clark, editor of Rosebud Magazine, Cambridge, Wisconsin. Each of the lst place winners received $500; all finalists received certificates. Top winners in both categories will be published in Homestead Review and online for your reading pleasure on our website at www.centralcoastwriters.org