Fifth Annual Ultra-Short Competition - 2007-08
Grand Prize
Elizabeth Kerlikowske - Social Graces
Top Poetry Prize
Ellen Birkett Morris - The Big Oak in the Front Yard
Top Prose Prize
Laurelyn Whitt - Overheard in Di's Country Diner
Top UMM Student Work
Mike Lachance - Say Goodbye for Me
Editor's Choice - Poetry
Diane Elayne Dees - Women Write Poems About Mrs. Woolf
Editor's Choice - Prose
Maureen A. Sherbondy - Papercut
Honored Writers & Works
(Selected From Over 700 Submission - In Alphabetical Order)
Kelli Russell Agodon - Fear of Divorce, Age Seven
Susan Ames - "In Love"
Shannon Anthony - A Decision
Nina Bayer - Diagnosis Dance
Greg Beatty - On a Dark and Moonless Night
F.J. Bergmann - Luna
Louis E. Bourgeois - The Stone Lion
Gary Cadwallader - Witch
Jane Christensen - Investors Are Frightened by Today's Market
Temple Cone - How It Happens
Linda Courtland - Identity Theft
Elly Cummens - Peapods
Carol Leonetti Dannhauser - Show Down
Barry Dearborn - Chances Lost
Mark DeCarteret - Shot
Ivan Faute - Circa Thus
June Payne Flath - Untitled
Liz Foster - After a Night of Working Third Shift
Clifford Garstang - Headlong
Christine Gehrmann - Dreams
Toni Giarnese* In 1898 my grandmother: Maria Giovanna Colangelo
Christopher Goodrich - For My Daughter, When She is Born
Caitlin Hawes - The Golden Sticker
Kyle Hemmings - The Violinist's Complaint
Tania Hershman - Thin Ice
Ruhi Jiwani - Laughter
Sue Kanhai - 2 a.m.
Adrian Kane - Red Curtain
Monica Landy - Spooning
Ellen LaFleche - The Fisherman's Widow
Elizabeth Langemak - Meditations on Moving Water
William I. Lengeman III - The Old One
Adam Lilienthal - Notice How
Robert A. Lindblom - Picture of a Con
Tessa Smith McGovern - Just Like That
Terry McKee - A Summer's Tale
Roger Midgett - The Waning
Micaela Myers - Baby Doll
Sally R. Petersen - A Dead Day
Jessica Piazza - Lilapsophobia
Jamie Quatro - We are the Ones
Margaret Rozga - An onion, a glove of garlic, the heart
Jenny Sadre-Orafai - Pushing Past
Mark Schynert - Eight Seconds
Marisa Silver - In The Paper
Melissa Smith - The Garbagemen Get It
Erik Svehaug - Butterfly Bride
Pamela Tarlow-Calder - Photograph of Mary
Linda Therber - Cadenced
Ateet Tuli - Time
Sylvia Woods - Why I Want to Meet The Town Whore
2008-09 Competition
Winners of Our Sixth Ultra-Short Competition.
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2007-08 Competition
Winners of its Fifth Ultra-Short Competition.
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2006-07 Competition
Winners of its Fourth Ultra-Short Competition.
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2005-06 Competition
Winners of its Third Ultra-Short Competition.
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2004-05 Competition
Winners of its Second Ultra-Short Competition.
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2003-04 Competition
Winners of its First Ultra-Short Competition.
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