COMPETITION RESULTS
2010 Prose Short List
Calculating Stan Walderman
Elephant Air
On the Hunting Room Table
Meinongs Jungle
The List
Pickles and Ice Cream
Career Options
Everywhere and Nowhere
Exposure
Love is Like Lidocaine
2010 Poetry Short List
Palimpsest
What I did with the Remains
Solace/No Solace
Reincarnation Redux
Little Red Riding Hood 30 Years Later
Religion, Sexual Orientation or ...
From the Saxon Tower to Carfax
On Choosing a Mattress
In Search of Ezra Pound
Passing
Take My Hand an Follow Me
Just to Let You Know
Friend’s Lapse into a Coma
Cessna
Corfu
Firstborn at Two
A Night Full of Rain
The Monastery
What is Served
Caravaggio to His Critics
FreeFall
Bridges
The Poetry Lesson
2009 Prose and Poetry Winners
Prose:
First Place: Marilyn Gear Pilling for The Love Bites of Twenty-three Rogue Monkeys
Second Place: Barbara Parker for Bethlehem Blanket
Third Place: David Willis for Armchair Blues
Honourable Mention: Katherine Fawcett for Cannonball
2009 Poetry Winners
First Place: Rosemary Griebel for Hotel Room, Paris and Sparrows
Second Place: Marilyn Gear Pilling for as his God holds him and How She Remains
Third Place: George Amabile for Waking up in the Dark and
Marjorie Bruhmuller for The Puddle that Attracts the Sky
Honourable Mentions: Marilyn Gear Pilling for A Sunday Morning in February and
Greg Simison for Dreams of the Grand Banks
2009 Poetry Short List
Aila
A Sunday Morning in February
as his God holds him
Checkers
Dreams of the Grand Banks
Feast
Flock Mentality
Hotel Room, Paris
How She Remains
Insomnia
Less a Stillness, More a Lover of Flight
Lines on a map of Calgary
One Seed’s Vocation
Performance in the Bedroom and Wanting To Help
Praying with Hooligans
Scab
Solstice
Sparrows
The Blues
The Destructors
The Puddle that Attracts the Sky
The Return
The Roses from the Second Floor
To R
Travelogue
Waiting for Letters While on Sabbatical
Waking Up in the Dark
War Harvest
2009 Prose Short List
Armchair Blues
Bethlehem Blanket
Cannonball
Cold Turkey
The Love Bites of 23 Rogue Monkeys
The Melting Snow
Origins of a Robotic Boy
Playing Dead
Powder Blue
Woman #4 Standing
2008 Prose and Poetry Winners
Prose:
First Place – "The White Tiger”" by Paul Sammartino
Second Place – "Buryin Day Today” by Angela Day
Third Place – “Searching for the Pebble” by Diane Fretz
Honourable Mentions –“The Clay Medallion” by Beverly Rasporich
Poetry:
First Place – Walking with Walt Whitman
through Calgary’s Eastside” and
“My Father
Comes Back as a Draught Horse” by Rosemary Griebel
Second Place – “A Kitchen Poem” and “A Measure of Taste” by Joan Shillington
Third Place – “Witness” by Pamela Porter
Honourable Mentions – “Timothy on Foot” by Angelo Giambra
2008 Poetry Short List
1969 – Transition
A Kitchen Poem
A Measure of Taste
Freeman
Hailing Home
Letters of J-i-l-t
Meaning/Content
Meditation on Wasps
My father comes back as a draught horse
On Nine Mile Road
Screws
Sestina: Museum of Grief
Signs
Tenebrae
The Couple in the Plaza Grande
Timothy On Foot
To the Neighbour Who Asks Me What I Do
Walking with Walt Whitman through Calgary's Eastside
What Remains
Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream
Witness
2008 Prose Short List
Buryin’ Day Today
Deep as the Sea
Fragile Blue and Creamy White
Mel
Searching for the pebble
Seeds
Sing Me Home
The Bitches Titties
The Clay Medallion
The White Tiger
Trapline
2007 Prose and Poetry Winners
Prose:
First Place – "Treehouse" by Carin Makuz (Whitby, ON)
Second Place – "Homeland Security" by Judy Galbraith (Calgary, AB)
Third Place – "Control—1969" by Colette Maitland ( Gananoque, ON)
Honourable Mentions:
"Run Away Fish" by Jan Manchur (Victoria, BC)
"The Disappearing Act" by Andrea Beca (Edmonton, AB)
"One Friday Night" by Linda Hutsell-Manning (Cobourg, ON)
Poetry:
First Place – "Nearer In" by Vicki Goodfellow-Duke (Calgary, AB)
Second Place – "Linked" by Sandra Savage (Calgary, AB)
Third Place – "Through the Looking Glass" by Barbara Green (Calgary, AB)
Honourable Mentions:
"Detachment" by Kate Marshall-Flaherty (Toronto, ON)
"Time Isn’t Linear" by Nick Fuller (Calgary, AB)
"Between Us" by Juleta Severson-Baker (Calgary, AB)
2006 Fiction and Poetry Winners
Fiction:
First Place - "True Romance" by Beverly Rasporich, Invermere, BC
Second Place - "The Melt" by Lorraine Cathro, Calgary, AB
Third Place - "Albert & Boo"by Salvatore Difalco, Niagara Falls, ON
Honourable Mention - "A Fable from Hythe" by Jenine Safioles, Onoway, AB
Honourable Mention - "First, Do No Harm" by Penny Anne Beaudoin, Amherstburg, ON
Poetry:
First Place - "The closest I ever came to finding love" by Chris Wanamaker, Calgary, AB
Second Place - "The Wolf" by Salvatore Difalco, Niagara Falls, ON
Third Place - "Hot Sheets, Really" by Wendy Joy, Edmonton, AB
Honourable Mention - "The Space In Between" by Kate Marshall-Flaherty, Toronto, ON
Honourable Mention - "Rough Crossing" by Cassy Wellburn, Calgary, AB
2005 Fiction and Poetry Winners
Fiction:
First Place - "East of White City" by Allison Kydd, Edmonton, AB
Second Place - "The Light" by Audrey Whitson, Edmonton, AB
Poetry:
First Place - "Trinity" by Marilyn Letts, Calgary, AB
Second Place - "Summer Sunset" by Rebecca Holland, Lethbridge, AB
2004 Fiction and Poetry Winners
Fiction:
First Place: "It All Started in the Gold Room" by Marguerite Deslauriers, Montreal, PQ
Second Place: Mary@MotherofGod.com by Nerys Perry, Ottawa, ON
Honourable Mention - "Rose and Rosemary" by Rachelle Pinnow, Calgary, AB
Poetry:
A tie for First Place between
"Dominoes" by Keith Inman, Thorold, ON, and
"Scrip" by Janke Wielenga Thunder Bay, ON
Second Place - "An Ode to the Seamstress Who Repaired the Zipper in My Jacket" by Anna Mioduchowska
Honourable Mention - "Midnight Smoke" by Keith Inman, Thorold, ON
2003 Fiction and Poetry Winners
Fiction:
First Place - "Family Portrait" by Jan Houston, Calgary, AB
Second Place - "Hallowe'en Kisses" by Jayne Barnard, Calgary, AB
Honourable mention - "Nothing Sacred" by Lori Hahnel, Calgary, AB
Honourable mention - "The Perm" by Gayl Veinotte, Calgary, AB
Honourable mention - "Your Daylight Savings Family of Gremlins" by Alexander Zeleny, Windsor, ON
Fiction Runners up:
"Homecoming" by Mary Baxter, London, ON
"The Letter" by Suzanne Benner, Calgary, AB
"Mary Hayden" by Willie Fitzpatrick, Calgary, AB
"Gasping for Water" by Fiona Pinnell, Calgary, AB
"Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" by Dianne M. Wey, Neustadt, ON
Poetry:
First Place - "Vancouver" by Dona Sturmanis, Peachland, BC
Second Place - "Flight" by Rosemary Griebel, Calgary, AB
Honourable Mention - "The Library" by Rosemary Griebel, Calgary, AB
Honourable Mention - "Mrs. Richard Secord's Dress" by Angela Kublik, Grand Prairie, AB
Honourable Mention - "In the aura of your mother's death" by Doreen Nystrom, Calgary, AB
Poetry Runners Up:
"Homecoming" Barbara Archer, Calgary, AB
"Total Eclipse" Rosemary Griebel, Calgary, AB
"The Poems of Annie Ada York Secord" Angela Kublic, Edmonton, AB
"Heirloom" Angela Kublic, Edmonton, AB
"Natalia Dreams" Angela Kublic, Edmonton, AB
"Cincinnati Finding Great Grandmother's House" Carol L. MacKay, Baulf, AB
"Driving South" Marybeth Nelson, Calgary, AB
"Faded" Marguerite Norlander, Cochrane, AB
"Netherworld" Dona Sturmanis, Kelowna, BC
2002 Fiction and Poetry Winners
Fiction:
First Place - "Accident Prone" by Jan Houston, Calgary, AB
Second Place $100: "One Hundred Jars of Honey to Sell" by Sharon LaFrenz, Calgary, AB
Honourable mention - "In Touch With My Roots" by Vilnis Muiznieks, Calgary, AB
Honourable mention - "Coming To" by Bill Stenson, Victoria, BC
Honourable mention - "Over The Edge" by Dianne Wey, Neustadt, ON
Poetry:
First Place - "Arctic Rescue" by Joan Shillington, Calgary, AB
Second Place "The Origin of Fear" by Rebecca Luce-Kapler, Kingston, ON
Honourable Mention - "The Trellis" by Carol L. MacKay, Bawlf, AB
Honourable Mention - "Adopted Means" by S. Pamela MacLean-Calabrese, Antigonish, NS
Honourable Mention - "down by the sea" by David McGinnis, Calgary, AB
2001 Fiction and Poetry Winners
Fiction:
First Place - "Nature Series" by Lowell Blood, Halifax, NS
Second Place - "Civil War" by Jan Houston, Calgary, AB
Honourable mention - "Rudi" by Myriam Dostert, Vernon BC
Honourable mention - "Basics of Communication" by Ellen Kelly, Airdrie AB
Honourable mention - "Parallel Universe" by Wayne Arthurson, Edmonton AB
Poetry:
First Place - "a room Prague, October 2000" by Myrna Garanis, Edmonton AB
Second Place - "La Entrada (Guatemala Poems)" by Liz Rees, Calgary AB
Honourable mention - "Recipe for Reciprocation" by Renee Norman, Coquitlam BC
Honourable mention - "A woman of a certain age" by Judith Robb, Calgary AB
Honourable mention - "Flirting the Question" by Beth Raugust, Calgary AB
Honourable mention - "me though long gone" by Sylvia Adams, Ottawa ON