Winners of the Winter Solstice Writing Contest!

We have the results of the writing contest! Before you scroll down to see who won, we want you to know that making the final decisions was very, very difficult. There were many contenders, but in the final analysis, we had to chose. In our hearts we know that everyone who entered the contest is a winner. It isn't easy to submit your writing to a contest. It takes a lot of risk and passion and a belief in yourself.

As Thomas Hart Benton said, "I know there is no such thing as failure in the pursuit of art. Merely to survive in that pursuit is success . . . The act of artistic creation has its own psychological payoff and a very considerable one. The only way an artist can personally fail is to quit work."

The Winners in two Categories, Fiction and Nonfiction

First Place:Anne DiGiovanni for Three Spirals
Deborah Staunton for Promises Kept

Second Place:
Martha Handler for Winter's Solace
Max Mobley for Hope for the Future

Third Place: Jean Aloe for Murder Most Delicious
Bonni Brodnick for Cool To Be Cold

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