SLO NightWriters 22nd Annual
Writing Contest Winners
SLO NightWriters has had the pleasure to sponsor this contest for twenty-two years. It has grown from a fundraiser that served the needs of our organization, to an event that is seeking to recognize the arts of fiction and poetry. Through this contest, we define what we believe to be the best in imagination and execution of story and poem.
The challenge we offer is to express a story, complete with plot, characters, and settings, in five hundred words, or to capture the essence of impression and emotion in forty lines of poetry.
Each year our board members select a theme as suitable for wide interpretation through poetry or prose, and to insure originality. This year’s theme was, “Illumination.”
More than eighty entries made their way to us from four states and the United Kingdom. Judges from the best academic institutions and major newspapers on the Central Coast of California reviewed each entry. Standards of publication insured professional presentation of each writer’s work.
Nine works are here recognized as representing the best of the best this year.
Mark Arnold
Contest Director
SLO NightWriters
sfnightwriter@gmail.com
First and second place winning entries can be read here on our website by clicking on those entries' titles.
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Contest Results:
Poetry:
1st , The Circle of Life
by Anna Unkovich
2nd, Night Bird
by Ken Solomon
3rd, My Moon over October
by Marian Kaplun Shapiro
HM, Fukushima Haiku
by Anna Unkovich
Short Story:
1st, Cantina Nights
by Anne Schroeder
2nd, Atoms of Clay
by Kathleen Duggan
3rd, Humanity
by Kirsty Jenkins
HM, Slender Thread
by Paul Alan Fahey
HM, Symmetry
by Susan Tuttle
