Annual Art Affair Writing Contests

2010 Winners

SHORT STORY – 2010

First Place – B. F. McCune, Denver, Colorado – “Where is Cheyenne and Who On Earth Wants To Go There”

Second Place – Laura Loomis, Pittsburg, California – “Please”

Third Place – M. Carolyn Steele, Tulsa, Oklahoma – “The Soldier, 1836”

(Honorable Mentions listed in alphabetic order)

Honorable Mention – Anita Breitling, Weatherford, Oklahoma – “Chaos With K-OS”

Honorable Mention – Augustus M. Cileone, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania – “Wonder”

Honorable Mention – Gary R. Hoffman, Okeechobee, Florida – “Spencer Tracy Be a Great Man”

Honorable Mention – Julie Kimbrell, Conway, Arkansas – “One Crazy Campfire Romance”

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WESTERN SHORT STORY – 2010

First Place – Robert Walton, King City, California – “Joaquin’s Gold”

Second Place – Allen Russell, Hartford, Kentucky – “Do Unto Others”

Third Place – Dave P. Fisher, Sparks, Nevada – “There Stands a Man”

(Honorable Mentions listed in alphabetic order)

Honorable Mention – Lee Baldwin, Gilroy, California – “Unfinished Business and Burning Greed”

Honorable Mention – Lee Ann Russell, Springfield, Missouri – “Three At the Fence”

Honorable Mention – M. Carolyn Steele, Tulsa, Oklahoma – “Waitin’ For a Friend”

Honorable Mention – Gary W. Szelc, Fanwood, New Jersey – “The Thundering Herd”

Honorable Mention – Charles R. Vassel, Midwest City, Oklahoma – “The Fastest Gun Alive”

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POETRY - 2010

First Place – Sally Clark, Fredericksburg, Texas – “Love Does the Hard Things”

Second Place – Moriah Erickson, Duluth, Minnesota – “Leaving”

Third Place – Colleen Cleary, Pleasant Hill, California – “Rocking Chair Santa

(Honorable Mentions listed in alphabetic order)

Honorable Mention – Doris Andrews, Durant, Oklahoma – “That Black Sunday”

Honorable Mention – Jim Barton, Huttig, Arkansas – “Growing Old”

Honorable Mention – Von S. Bourland, Happy, Texas – “The Rain Gauge”

Honorable Mention – Colleen Cleary, Pleasant Hill, California – “Outsider to a Dream”

Honorable Mention – Lilah Contine, Saint Charles, Missouri – “London Burning”

Honorable Mention – Judith Durbin, Midwest City, Oklahoma – “Robert”

Honorable Mention – Judith Durbin, Midwest City, Oklahoma – “summer and twilight”

Honorable Mention – Elizabeth Elfring, Yacolt, Washington – “The Opera”

Honorable Mention – Betsy Humphreys, Granite Falls, North Carolina – “In Dominican Waters”

Honorable Mention – Betsy Humphreys, Granite Falls, North Carolina – “Learning Japanese at Nikka Yuko Garden”

Honorable Mention – Dolores White Kiser, Durant, Oklahoma – “Rejection”

Honorable Mention – Dolores White Kiser, Durant, Oklahoma – “Passages”

Honorable Mention – Dolores White Kiser, Durant, Oklahoma – “Nature’s Elegy”

Honorable Mention – Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, California – “Mendocino Morning”

Honorable Mention – Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, California – “An American Haibun”

Honorable Mention – Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, California – “The Green God’s Guerrillas”

Honorable Mention – Carol Dee Meeks, Tulsa, Oklahoma – “Crushed Rock”

Honorable Mention – Carol Dee Meeks, Tulsa, Oklahoma – “Holy Intervention Yields Much”

Honorable Mention – Tamara Mikell-Choudhury, Tucson, Arizona – “Dear Grandmother”

Honorable Mention – Yvonne Nunn, Hermleigh, Texas – “She Inherited the Damn Thing”

Honorable Mention – Allen Russell, Hartford, Kentucky – “An Old Soldier’s Prayer”

Honorable Mention – Allen Russell, Hartford, Kentucky – “The Last Lonesome Ride”

Honorable Mention – Rick Sears, Mason City, Iowa – “6 Items Only/Oops, I Have 7 Items”

Honorable Mention – Rick Sears, Mason City, Iowa – “Village Concert”

Honorable Mention – Jennifer Taylor, Eau Claire, Wisconsin – “The Echoes I Leave Behind”

Honorable Mention – A. D. Winans, San Francisco, California – “Trying to Let Go”

Honorable Mention – Francine Witte, New York, New York – “My First Mother”

Citation Award – Elizabeth Elfring, Yacolt, Washington – “Rock Garden”

Citation Award – Diane Mauck, Calera, Oklahoma – “Boughing Out”

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MYSTERY SHORT STORY – 2010 (Special Category for 2010)

First Place – Robert E. Boertien, Welches, Oregon – “Once Bitten”

Second Place – Ann Holbrook, Fayetteville, Arkansas – “Torment”

Third Place – Von S. Bourland, Happy, Texas – “Strange Appetites”

(Honorable Mentions listed in alphabetic order)

Honorable Mention – Sara Gipson, Scott, Arkansas – “Closure”

Honorable Mention – Gary R. Hoffman, Okeechobee, Florida – “Lucky You Were There”

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