Appalachian Writers Association Contests

Appalachian Writers Association Contests for 2005

Contests open to all dues-paying AWA members; DEADLINE postmark June 1, 2005.

The prize structure for each contest is as follows: $100 for first place, $50 for second place,
and $25 for third place. The first place winners for each contest will also receive a year's subscription
to Appalachian Heritage. It is permissible for an entrant to win more than one place in the same contest.

The Tom Jackson Short Story Award
--entry limited to approximately two thousand (2,000) words
--no restriction on subject matter
--entrant must be thirty (30) years old or younger
--entry may not be entered in Arnow Fiction Award competition simultaneously

The Harriette Arnow Award for Short Story
--no restrictions on subject matter or length of entry
--no restrictions on age of entrant

The James Still Award for Poetry
--entrant may submit no more than three poems
--no restrictions on subject matter or length of entry (-ies)
--no restrictions on age of entrant

The Wilma Dykeman Award for Essay
--essay must address Appalachian life and literature, religion, folklore, culture,
	and/or values
--no restrictions on entry length
--no restrictions on age of entrant

The Josefina Niggli Award for Playwriting
--limited to single scene or one-act play
--no restrictions on subject matter
--no restrictions on age of entrant

General Contest Rules

You must be an AWA member currently up to date on dues to enter the contests, but
you pay no additional entry fees or reading fees and may enter any or all contests for
which you are eligible.

Submitted entries should not have been published or performed in any form, but they
may be under consideration for publication.

All submissions must be typed or word-processed. Fiction and non-fiction prose works must be
double-spaced. Photocopies are accepted. Submit two copies with removable title pages which
include your name, address, and telephone number; title of work; and the name of contest to
which you are submitting the piece for consideration.

Contest submissions that do not adhere to contest rules will not be considered.

The number of awards determined for each specific contest is contingent upon the number
of entries for each specific contest. If there are fewer than five members who submit
entries for any given contest, the award for that contest will be suspended for that year.
Contestants may not submit more than three entries to any one contest (for example, a poet
may submit three separate pieces for the James Still Poetry Award, but no more than three.
The same poet could also submit entries to other contests). AWA membership fees are nonrefundable.

No entries will be returned. Make certain that you retain copies of your submissions.
For your convenience, you may include your registration, dues, and contest entries in
the same envelope. See conference registration for dues information.

Mail contest entries to:

Appalachian Writers Association
c/o Kim Holloway
Department of English
1350 King College Road
Bristol, TN 37620-2699

Winners of Past Appalachian Writers Association Contests

We regret that there are some missing bits of information for some
years. If you know of winners omitted from this listing, please contact
Kim Holloway at khollowa@king.edu.

Poetry

James Still Award: Judy Loest's "Knoxville: Summer, 2003"
Second Place: Evelyn McAmis Bales' "February Walk"
Third Place: Judy Lee Green's "Signs"
Honorable Mention: Dory L. Hudspeth's "The Just Because"
Honorable Mention: Susan Lefler's "Rendering the Bones"

Fiction

Harriette Arnow Award: David Lee Kirkland's "Story Suite"
Second Place: Janna McMahan's "Candy Cigarettes"
Third Place: Jackie White Rogers' "Her Leg"
Honorable Mention: Rebecca K. Brooks' "Safe Places"
Honorable Mention: Grace Epstein's "Getting Started"

Nonfiction Prose

Wilma Dykeman Award for Essay: Janice Willis Barnett's "Red, White, & Jesus"
Second Place: Michael J. Croley's "The Measure of a Man"
Third Place: Bob Sloan's "Christmas"
Honorable Mention: Georgia Green Stamper's "A Kentucky Legacy"
Honorable Mention: Judy Lee Green's "Blacktops and Cheating Songs"

Drama

Josephina Niggli Award for Playwriting: Dan Leonard's A Long Summer
Second Place: Trish Ayers' The Labyrinth of Tears
Third Place: Dina Courtney Haines' The Waiting Room

Poetry

James Still Award: Jane Hick's "Deep Winter"
Second Place: Llewellyn McKernan's "When Mother Died"
Third Place: Llewellyn McKernan's "Christ of the Ozarks"
Honorable Mention: Bev Olert's "Touching Lorrettie's Hair 1967"
Honorable Mention: Marianne Worthington's "Sara and Maybelle Carter Sing the Hillbilly Boogie"
Honorable Mention: Mary E. O'Dell's "Si Todos los Rios son Dulces"

Fiction

Harriette Arnow Award: Rebecca Bailey's "Her Hips Inscribed Crescent Moons as She Walked"
Second Place: Deborah Reed's "Grassroots"
Third Place: Llewellyn McKernan's "The Norfolk and Western"
Honorable Mention: Jimmy Carl Harris' "Dark Dancing"
Honorable Mention: Wanda Fries' "Fault Lines"

Tom Jackson Award: Natalie Lloyd's "In the Company of Angels"
Second Place: Natalie Lloyd's "Red Lipstick"
Third Place: Elizabeth E. Dunston's "Prologue" to The Emerald Sphere

Nonfiction Prose

Wilma Dykeman Award: Judy Lee Green's "Squeezing the Scale"
Second Place: Jim Minick's "Rock Phosphate"
Third Place: Denise McKinney's "Farther Along: Carico to Hurley and Other Places Dear"
Honorable Mention: Richard Hague's "Seven Times Seven Sons"

Poetry

James Still Award: Stephen M. Holt's "Late Winter 1958: Big Sandy Valley"
Second Place: Jim Minick's "Uncle Bill's Puzzles"
Third Place: Elizabeth Howard's "Ghosts of Red Foxes"
Honorable Mention: Joyce Compton Brown's "Lula Bell Sings at the Franklin Reunion"
Honorable Mention: Charlie Hughes' "What Drives Them"

Fiction

Harriette Arnow Award: Bev Olert's "Private Adoption"
Second Place: Pamela Duncan's "On the Inside Looking Out"
Third Place: Genie Jacobson's "Terrapin Days"
Honorable Mention: Jimmy Carl Harris' "Rolling Salvation"
Honorable Mention: Rita Quillen's "Elizabeth's Lovelife"

Essay

Wilma Dykeman Award: Sue Richardson Orr's "Mother's Kitchen"
Second Place: Lee Ann Woods' "An Appalachian Hog-Killing"
Third Place: Janice Barnett's "The Language Issue"

Poetry
James Still Award: Susan Snowden's "New Nest"
Second Place: Jane Hicks' "Come October"
Third Place: Llewellyn McKernan's "Lucynell at the Bus Station"

Fiction
Harriette Arnow Award: Jimmy Carl Harris' "Malfunction Junction"
Second Place: Cully Holderfield's "Clan Peterson"
Third Place: Mary E. O'Dell's "A Good Man"

Essay
Wilma Dykeman Award: Mart Baldwin's "Fear of Bear Bites"

Poetry
James Still Award: Mary O'Dell's "Morning and Ivy"

Fiction
Harriette Arnow Award: Jan Barnett's "Sweet Potato Vine"
Second Place: Mary O'Dell's "Only Recourse"

Essay
Wilma Dykeman Award: Anne Adkins' "One Man's Land"

Poetry
James Still Award: Joyce Brown

Fiction
Harriette Arnow Award: Vera Dancey
Second Place: Pat Shirley
Third Place: Barbara Smith

Essay
Wilma Dykeman Award: Linda Behrend
Second Place: Ruth Trimble
Third Place: Ann W. Olson

Poetry 
James Still Award: Ruth Moose
Second Place: Mary E. O'Dell

Fiction
Harriette Arnow Award: Sallie Page
Second Place: Anna Chandler Wilkins

Essay
Wilma Dykeman Award: Patricia Shirley
Second Place: M. Katherine Grimes

Playwriting
Josefina Niggli Award: Mary E. Lynn Drew
Second Place: Ruth Moose

Poetry 
James Still Award: Susan Snowden 
Second Place: Evelyn McAmis Bales 
Third Place: Glenda Beall

Fiction
Harriette Arnow Award: Gary Carden
Second Place: Parks Lanier
Third Place: Mart G. Baldwin

Essay
Wilma Dykeman Award: Parks Lanier
Second Place: Gary Carden
Third Place: Rita Sizemore Riddle

Tom Jackson Short Story Award (for writers under 30): Jane Meekins

Poetry
TIE for James Still Award: Susan Snowden and Kathleen Hellen
Second Prize:  Patricia Shirley

Fiction
Harriette Arnow Award: Tamara Baxter
Second Prize: Gretchen Moran Laskas
Third Prize: Alice Sink

Essay
Wilma Dykeman Award: Alice Sink
Second Prize: Eileen McCullough
Third Prize: Dot Jackson
 Honorable Mention: Jim Minick

Poetry
Rita Sizemore Riddle: James Still Award
M. Lucile Henricks: Second Prize
Patricia Shirley: Third Prize
Jim Clark: Honorable Mention
Gwen Y. Fortune: Honorable Mention

Fiction
Jeri Hanel Watts: Harriette Arnow Award
Patricia Shirley: Second Prize
Marian Coe: Third Prize
Jim Clark: Honorable Mention
Gretchen Moran Laskas: Honorable Mention

1995 Tom Jackson Short Story Award (for writers under 30)
Dara Eberly

Essay
Mary Sutton Skutt: Wilma Dykeman Award
Duane Staggs: Second Prize
Barbara Smith: Third Prize
Alice Sink: Honorable Mention
Gwen Y. Fortune: Honorable Mention

Poetry 
Kathleen Hellen: James Still Award 
Jim Hinsdale: Second Prize 
Jo Woody: Third Prize

Fiction
Gretchen Moran Laskas: Tom Jackson Memorial Prize
Cynthia R. Stewart: Harriette Arnow Award
Jeri Hanel Watts: Second Prize
Tamera Baxter: Third Prize

Essay
Vera Dancy: Wilma Dykeman Award
Fran Farlow: Second Prize
Cynthia R. Stewart: Third Prize

Poetry
Allison Thorpe: James Still Award

Fiction
Ricky L. Cox: Harriette Arnow Award

Essay
Ann W. Olson: The Wilma Dykeman Award

Poetry
Mary Lois Lanier: James Still Award
Charlie Hughes: Second Prize
Ron Rash: Third Prize

Fiction
Jeri Hanel Watts: Harriette Arnow Award
Billie Jean Huling: Second Prize
Ruth Moose: Third Prize

Essay
Jim Minick: Wilma Dykeman Award

Poetry
Steve Eberly: James Still Award
Charlie G. Hughes: Second Prize
Jim Minick: Third Prize

Fiction
Allison Thorpe: Harriette Arnow Award
Fran Farlow: Second Prize
John M. Clarke: Third Prize Fiction

Tom Jackson Short Story Award (for writers under 30): April Asbury

Essay
Jim Minick: Wilma Dykeman Award
Ricky Cox: Second Prize

1988-90

Jim Web: Wilma Dykeman Award
Jim Clark: Harriette Arnow Award

Poetry (Free Verse Honorable Mention): Patricia Shirley

If you can fill in any missing records for these years, please send information to 
Kim Holloway (khollowa@king.edu).

Poetry
Steve Eberly: Second Prize
Gretchen McCroskey: Third Prize

Poetry
Patricia Shirley: James Still Award
Barbara Smith: Second Prize
Mikey Terry: Third Prize
Carol L. Edwards: Honorable Mention
Hazel McKinney: Honorable Mention
Mary Ernestine O'Dell: Honorable Mention

Fiction
Liza Kroger: Harriette Arnow Award
Ron Willoughby: Second Prize
Mary Ernestine O'Dell: Third Prize
Steve Eberly: Honorable Mention
Toni D. Iarussi: Honorable Mention
Bernice A. Stevens: Honorable Mention

Essay
Carol L. Edwards: Wilma Dykeman Award
Judy K. Miller: Second Prize
Bernice Stevens: Third Prize

Poetry
Mona K. Helper: James Still Award
Janette Cox: Second Prize
Laura Bowers: Third Prize
Ray Allen: Honorable Mention

Fiction
Liza Koger: Harriette Arnow Award
Cheryl Ruggeriero: Second Prize
Madge Dishman: Third Prize
Janice Barnett: Honorable Mention

Essay
Ron Willoughby: Wilma Dykeman Award
William French: Second Prize
Helen Carper: Third Prize

Poetry
Anne Shelby: James Still Award

Old Towne Appalachian Writing honorable mention: Patricia Shirley