Paradise Valley Community College Creative Writing Contest Winners 2011-2012

Short Story

First Place: Travis Duprey,
"Look at Your Skin Where It Hurts"

Second Place: Rose Fields,
"In Beauty, It Is Finished"

Third Place: Ryan Donada, "Talk-Therapy"
Noelle Garten, "The Perfect Town"

Honorable Mention: Mary Izzo, "Despair"

Short Stories of Merit:
Morgan Brownlee, "Cigarettes and Silence"
Jaimie Ball, "Secret"
Carmen Kern, "Behind the Curtain"
Alex Dahl, "Departure of Harmony"

2011 Award in Journalism
Rosalie Lytle: "Report Reveals Young Adults at Highest Risk of Stalking"

Creative Non-Fiction

First Place: Susan Hulsebos,
"Thin Elastic Threads"

Second Place: Brenda Cooper,
"Lost Time, Lost Dreams, Lost Pounds"

Third Place: Zachary Fox,
"The Closet of My Discontent"

Honorable Mention: Julie Mataway,
"An Unwelcome Education"

Creative Non-Fiction, "Essays of Merit":
Elizabeth Hensley, "Cut It Out"
Carmen Ker, "Checkerboard Linoleum"
Zona Rowand Lawrence, Gluecover
Lisa Rácz, "Hungry WatersPoetry"

Poetry

First Place: Melissa Barrett-Traister,
"This Is What It Means To Eat Dinner Alone"

Second Place: Travis Duprey,
"A (Partial) Convolution of Things Said"

Third Place: Carmen Kern,
"Five Down On the Right"

Honorable Mention:
Rose Fields,
"Song of My Father"
Poems of Merit:
Zachary Fox, "My Miserable Lie"
Susan Hulsebos, "Late Into It"
Mary Izzo, "It Becomes Clear"
Julie Matawa,
"I Wish I Was a Chocolate Malt"
Mary Stone, "The Absence of Biscuis"

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