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Worlds into words into WORLDS
CONGRATULATIONS, 2012 FINALISTS !
JOY HARJO POETRY FINALISTS
"The Architects Were Crows," River L. Allen of Greenbay, WI
"Quaker Witness," Charles Atkinson of Soquel, CA
"We Show Each Other Our Scars," Devreaux Baker of Mendocino, CA
"Shapely," Tony Barnstone of Whittier, CA
"Defaced," Mary Pacifico Curtis of Los Gatos, CA
"Terrible Beauty," Mary Fitzpatrick of Pasadena, CA
"Clanging," Didi Goldenhar
"Barrow," Anna Maxymiw of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Out of This World," Peter Nash of Petrolia, CA
"If There's A Gun In A Chekhov Story, Its Going To Go Off," Mike Nelson of Kalamazoo, MI
"Sunday Dress" and "Lusty Shoes," Emma Rose of NY, NY
"Hope," Dixie Salazar of Fresno, CA
"I Carry My Prayers Inside My Fists," Ann-erika White Bird of St. Francis, SD


​RICK DEMARINIS SHORT STORY FINALISTS
​“The Heavens Hold," Annelise Schultz 
"The Lives That Came Before, The Lives That Never End," Tara Wright
"In Rock Springs Where the Angel Trumpets Sound," Tom Pamperin
"Obsolescence," Raul Palma
"Cruz," Genevieve Thurtlesa
"Bruno," Diane Stevens
“A Different Sized Us," David Armstrong
"Muneca," Amina Gautier
"Complicity," Jeffrey Schneider
"Trout and Crayfish," Karl Lunden
"Zhee Zhou," Anara Guard
“In San Francisco," Terrence Cheng
“Impact," Sandi Wallace
“The Ox and The Ant," Nancy Williard
"Inside Voice," Aaron Tillman