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2008 Winners
Poetry Juror - Kathleen Morrow
Kathleen Morrow
teaches creative writing and poetry in State College, PA. She
has competed in and earned first and second place awards in
several poetry slams in Central Pennsylvania, including the
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Wordstock Poetry Slam,
the State college first Night Poetry slam, and the Spring Creek
Slammers Sunday Night Slam. Kathleen founded Local Youth Poets (LYP),
and has hosted several writing workshops and poetry slams for
middle and high school students. She has published two
collections of poetry, “On The Brink of Something New” (Holy
Fool Press, 2004) and “The Lutz-Morrow Affair” (with Reggie
Lutz, Eiderdown Press, 2006.)
Poetry Winners
Westmoreland Award For Poetry
Catherine Moran
Little Rock, AR
“What to watch for”
First Place
Melissa Gemballa
Apollo, PA
“Double, Double Toil and Trouble” or A Midlife Crisis
Second Place
Susan Casey
Seattle, WA
“Sonnet to the Cow Beside the Road in Lopuchov”
Third Place
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, NY
“On Halloween I Rearrange My Spice Rack”
Honorable Mention
Elizabeth Rees
Silver Spring, MD
“Crime Scene”
Elisabeth Murawski
Alexandria, VA
“Once Upon A Night”
Christine Doreian Michaels
Pittsburgh, PA
“A Brave Front”
Short Story
Juror - Richard Blevins
Richard Blevins
has taught creative writing and English literature at the
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg for thirty years. He won
a chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999. He holds
degrees from Kent State University, The University of Oregon and
The University of Pittsburgh. His Pitt dissertation concerns the
western novels of Will Henry. His scholarly writing features
articles on fiction by Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Kelly and
Douglas Woolf. He was the co-publisher of Zelot Press from 1981
to 1989. He edited two volumes for Black Sparrow Press of the
Charles Olson and Robert Creeley correspondence. He is the
author of three collections of poems and nine chapbooks. His
most recent book is Castle Tubin: New Poems. He is currently at
work on a book-length poem about U.S. photographer Fred Holland
Day. Dr. Blevins’ literary archive is maintained at Kent State.
He makes his home in Hempfield Township with his wife, Dr.
Martha Koehler, and two daughters, Mathilda and Doris.
Short Story
Winners
Westmoreland Award for Short Story
Ronald C. Hamilton
Blairsville, PA
“The A”
Juried Short Story Awards
First prize
Charles Martinez
Chicago, IL
“Tobacco Leaves”
Second prize
Lynn Veach Sadler
Sanford, NC
“Lessons in May, Can, Will, and Be[ing]”
Third prize
Christine Aikens Wolfe
Pittsburgh, PA
“Lipstick”
Honorable Mention
Lorraine Loiselle
Pittsburgh, PA
“Kenny’s Corner”
Belinda Anderson
Asbury, WV
“Out of the Woods”
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