Past Winners and Charities

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2011 DonorsChoose.org

Grand Prize: Lynn Veach Sadler for Firedrake

2^nd Place: Rina Brice-Jones for Why I Had to Murder My Computer

3^rd Place: Christine E. Schulze for Follow Me

Honorable Mention: Bonnie Steele for Flora, Not Fauna

Honorable Mention: E.F. Barrington for Darksiding on a Sunday Afternoon

2010 Doctors Without Borders

Grand Prize: Chloe Wendell for Lorcan

2nd Place: Jason Pernsen for There Will Be Time to Pray Later

3rd Place: Rebecca Bryant-Thomas for The Legend of Wintersprite Vail

Honorable Mention: N.J. Morris for The Stone of Scoolana

2009 Kiva.org

Grand Prize:  Anna Cates with The Frog King

2nd Place: Megann McVey with Wealth Beyond Measure

3rd Place: Lynn Veach Sadler with Evolution of the Beagle/Beagle

Honorable Mention: Dawn Corrigan with The Ballad of Johnny Lover

2008 Children's Literacy Initiative

Grand Prize:  Brian Pettera with The Golden Path

2nd Place: David Lawrence with Blood of the World

3rd Place: Ken Thomas with The Mysteries of London

2007 DonorsChoose.org

Grand Prize: David Hart for Mud Hollow Bridge

2nd Place: Richard Deal for A Gypsy's Gift to Lucas

3rd Place: Tim Kane for Zombie Maker

Honorable Mention: Brian Pettera for Night Tales Not Told

2006 Speculative Literature Foundation

Grand Prize:  Johnathan Sharp for Misplaced

2nd Place: Lynn Veach Sadler for Foot Ways

3rd Place: Peter A. Balaskas for The Grandmaster

Honorable Mention: Phillip Collins for Of Angelic Blood

Honorable Mention: Damon O'Reilly for A Matter of Judgement

 2005 American Red Cross

The 2005 contest ambitiously awarded separate prizes for flass fiction, short fiction, and poetry.  All winners were published in the first Bardic Tales and Sage Advice anthology.  Please visit the book page for complete list of all winners and more details about the book. 

2002 International Women's Writing Guild

Our annual writing contest did not start out as an annual event.  The very first contest was held in 2002 to benefit the International Women's Writing Guild.  Winners will awarded one year membership's to the organization and their winning submissions posted online.