Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition

2011 CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition is proud to congratulate the following writers of merit:

FIRST PLACE
Darci Bysouth of Edinburgh, Scotland for "Hold"

SECOND PLACE
Jennifer R. Adams of Birchunville, PA for "Girl on a Balcony"

THIRD PLACE
John T. Biggs of Oklahoma City, OK for "Soul Kisses"


HONORABLE MENTIONS
(listed in no particular order)

Megan Doyle Corcoran of Wellington, New Zealand, for “Only the Scars Are Right”

Fran Haley of Zebulon, N.C for “Anomaly”

Karen Turner of Morington, Australia for "Crazy Cat Lady"

Vicki Riley of St. Cloud, FL, for “De Nada”

Elaine Murphy of  Vancouver, B.C., for “November 25th”

Douglas Bruton of Scotland, for “Godforsaken Stone Gilbert”

Kari Baumbach of Edina, MN, for “Lepidoptery”

Tom Deegan of Tipperary, Ireland, for “Magpies”

Leah Kaminsky of Austin, TX, for “And How the Algae Twines”

Megan Ainsworth of Florence, MS, for “Lucky’s”

Mahalia Solanges of Lauderhill, FL, for “Vague in Conversation”

Matthew Merkl, M.D. of Holmdel, N.J., for “CLAY”

Kay Cruse of Menomonie, WI, for “The Bunker”

Waimea Williams of Kaneohe, Hawaii, for “What You Find and What You Keep”

Jeffrey L. Schneider of Ellenville, N.Y., for “A Pair of Soup”

Todd Flynn of  Ainsworth, Nebraska, for “The Roofer Marking Time”

Paul Michel of Seattle, WA, for “Big Night”

Olesya O. Maximenko of Moscow, Russia, for “Purple”

19) Ames John Gigounas of Brooklyn, N.Y., for “Water”

Hal Ackerman of Los Angeles, CA, for “Leash”

Alex Carrick of Toronto Ontario, Canada, for “Caboose Follies”

Ladee Hubbard of New Orleans, Louisiana, for “There He Go”

Dana Fitz Gale of Missoula, MT, for “Schooling”

Athena Abrams of Boulder, CO, for “The Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel”

Ayodi Chrispinus Handa of Goodnews Mission, Nairobi, Kenya, for “The Blind Love”

Kate Zahnleiter of Queensland, Australia, for “Lullaby for the Living”

Abdul Adan of St. Louis, MO, for “SAMAN”

Eileen Sutton of New York, N.Y., for “Dear Mr. Doctorow”

Dwaine Rieves of Washington, D.C., for “The Eager Eagle”

Sarah Bowman of Port Townsend, WA, for “The Lords of Life”

Lesley Truffle of Victoria, Australia, for “The Secret Game”

Steve Fayer of Boston, MA, for “The Diver’s Game”

Margaret Lawrence of Culpepper, VA, for “But Not to the Swift”

Douglas Bruton of Scotland, for “The Bed Lucy Made, and She Lies in It”

Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid of Georgetown, MA, for “Snip It”

David E. Lee of Gerrardstown of Jacksonville, FL, for “Dreams Come True”

Vickie Weaver of Haverstown, IN, for “The Shootist”

Benjamin Doty of St. Paul, MN, for "Trains"

Kyria Amtsfeld of Berlin, Germany, for "Ra's ahl gul"

Jordan E. Rosenfeld of Morgan Hill, CA, for "Final Billing"

David Holloway of St. Louis, MO, for "A Head in My Garden"

Adam Stanley of Rome, GA, for “Eucharist”

Laura Borden of Merseyside, UK, for “Ðogwood”

John-Paul Cirelli of New Port Richey, FL, for "Pasteboard Masks"

Helen Sedwick of Santa Rosa, CA, for "Bourbon and Pipesmoke"  

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