Marion Doyle Poetry Award
1st: Lynn M. Hansen, “Gifts of Loss”
2nd: Janine DeBaise, “Ancient Rhythm”
3rd: Mary Gardner, “Making the Most of Time”
Marjorie Davies Roller Nonfiction Award
1st: Christina Britton Conroy, “I Want to Go to Lithuania or How to Have Fun with Your Aging Parents”
2nd (tie): Janine DeBaise, “Cure for Pain”; Fran Stewart, “Confessions of a Time-Saver: The Toothbrush Writing Model”
Norman C. and Marjorie J. Roller Award
1st: Janine DeBaise, “Nylon and Mesh”
2nd: Sheila Byrnes, “If You Listen, You Can Hear the Night Turning Over”
3rd: Janet Fagal, “Together, 1955”
Anita Marie Boggs Memorial Poetry Award
1st: Nancy Haskett, “Upward Climb”
2nd: Janet Fagal, “Everything That Matters”
3rd: Maria J. Keane, “About an Artist Writing a Poem”
Della Crowder Miller Poetry Award (Sonnet)
1st: Lynn M. Hansen, “Webs”
2nd: Mary Gardner, “Autumn, A Leaf”
3rd: Donna DeLeo Bruno, “Regret”
Della Crowder Miller Poetry Award (Free Verse)
1st: Patricia Underwood, “Montgomery, 1955”
2nd: Donna DeLeo Bruno, “Whose Hands Are These”
3rd: Silvia Kofler, “Indifference”
Catherine Cushman Leach Poetry Award
1st: Patricia Underwood, “Loggerhead”
2nd: Linda Scheller, “The Ballad of Doctor James Barry”
3rd: Linda Scheller, “Hill Top”
Elizabeth M. Campbell Poetry Award
1st: Donna DeLeo Bruno, “English Class”
2nd: Karen McAferty Morris, “Sestina—Late Autumn”
3rd: Lynn M. Hansen, “The Great American Eclipse”
Helen Sutton Booth National Memorial Poetry Award
1st: Dawn Huntley Spitz, “Legend of the Trees”
2nd: Karen McAferty Morris, “Not as Seasons in Turn”
3rd: Lois Batchelor Howard, “All Dressed Up”
The Anne Marx Sestina Award
(only one award)
Lynn M. Hansen, “Sestina for Fulgenzio”
Central New York Branch Flannery O’Connor Short Story Award
1st: Patricia Black-Gould, “The Crystal Beads”
2nd: Gail Wilson Kenna, “Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way”
3rd: Judith McGinn, “Good Deeds”
Delta Branch Grace K Wofford Essay Award
1st: Janine DeBaise, “Ghost Story”
2nd: Gail Wilson Kenna, “A Woman Reader from the Boogie Woogie West”
3rd: Sharon Canfield Dorsey, “Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History”
Memoir Award
1st: Karen Hempson, “Immigrant Healer”
2nd: Mary L. Gardner, “Second Looks”
3rd: Jennifer Santana, “S.O.S.”
Sandra Seaton Michel Children’s Book or Story Award
1st: Linda Trice, “Kenya’s Art”
2nd: Gail Wilson Kenna, “The Story of a Contrary, Contumacious Cat”
3rd: Rachael Ikins, “A Piglet for David”
Sandra Seaton Michel Middle School Story Award
1st: Gail Wilson Kenna, “Deadly as Ever”
2nd: Sarah Byrn Rickman, “BJ Erickson: WASP Pilot”
3rd: Donna DeLeo Bruno, “Donatella”
Fiction Book Award
1st: Carol White, “From One Place to Another”
2nd: Rose Ann Kalister, “Sister of Saidnaya, A Syrian Immigrant’s Tale”
3rd: Lois Batchelor Howard, “Captured Passions”
Journalism Award
1st: Gail Wilson Kenna, “One Face from the Shadow of Millions”
2nd: Lois Batchelor Howard, “She Lived and Lives”
3rd: Andrea Jones Walker, “Defining Home: Is There Still No Place Like Home?”
Congratulations to all the winners!