Announcing the 2019 AWC Contest Winners
Congratulations to these Alabama writers! We are always grateful to Mary Murphy’s generous service as Contest Chair, which is a title that includes extensive time, logistical grappling, and reading. And much gratitude to the judges who pored over these submissions and devoted days of their personal time in reading and re-reading the incredible submissions.
Now for the winners…
The Mickey Cleverdon Award for Formal Poetry
FIRST PRIZE: Leonard Temme for “Convergence”
SECOND PRIZE: Jeanette Willert for “Being A Poet”
THIRD PRIZE: Kathleen Duthu for “Flowers for Mama”
The Jake Adam York Award Free Verse Poetry
FIRST PRIZE: Susan Martinello for “Systema Natural”
SECOND PRIZE: Nancy Owen Nelson for “Africatown”
THIRD PRIZE: Leonard Temme for “Father’s Day”
The Former Alalit Editor’s First-Chapter-of-Novel Award
FIRST PRIZE: Larry Wilson for “A Lack of Reflection”
SECOND PRIZE: Dave Hammond for “Heaven, Hell, or Nothing”
THIRD PRIZE: Joe Formichella for “Caduseus”
The AWC Flash Fiction Award
FIRST PRIZE: Richard Key for “What MLK Day Means to Me”
SECOND PRIZE: Leonard Temme for “The Plot For Today”
THIRD PRIZE: W.B. Henley for “Vigil”
The AWC Humor Award
FIRST PRIZE: Deb Jellett Coggin for “The Devil You Say”
SECOND PRIZE: Glenda Richmond Slater for “You Wouldn’t Believe”
THIRD PRIZE: Jeanette Willert for “Silver Sneakers Class”
The Aurelia Jane Rascoe Award for Memoir
FIRST PRIZE: Doug Gray for “Line of Fire”
SECOND PRIZE: Larry Wilson for “Jackson”
THIRD PRIZE: Faith Garbin for “Hungry”
The Carolynne Scott Award for Fiction
FIRST PRIZE: Larry Wilson for “A Lack of Reflection”
SECOND PRIZE: W. B. Henley for “Ashes”
THIRD PRIZE: Mona Pineda for “My Favorite Aunties”
The AWC Juvenile Fiction Award
FIRST PRIZE: Daniel Leonard for “Hank’s Very Rainy Day”
SECOND PRIZE: Debbie Esslinger for “Alabama Stone Soup”
THIRD PRIZE: Ellen Prewitt for “Jazzy and the Pirates”
The T.K. Thorne Non-Fiction Award
FIRST PRIZE: DJ Leonard for “The Man and the Mustache”
SECOND PRIZE: Leonard Temme for “Symposium”
THIRD PRIZE: Tina Mozelle Braziel for “When the Speak-n-Spell Said We Were Rich”
Special congratulations to our double-prize winners W. B. Henley and Larry Wilson—and let’s just give the whole field of wildflowers to quadruple-prize-winner, Leonard Temme.