a journal of the arts...
Award Winners...
2008 JOY HARJO POETRY AWARD:
NAOMI BENARON
of Tucson, Arizona
"Healer"
Judge:  Richard Jackson
Award Winners...
2008 RICK DEMARINIS SHORT STORY AWARD:
TIMOTHY RIEN,
of Pleasanton, California
"Reading the Weight of It"
Judge: Linda Hogan
2008 POETRY AWARDS:
2nd Place:
Michael Lee Phillips
"How the Hard Rains Did Fall"
 
Honorable Mentions:
Emily Van Kley
"Red and Rojo,"
and
Kathryn Winograd
"My Mother Going Blind
Sees the World"

2008 SHORT STORY AWARDS:
2nd Place:
Flavian Mark Lupinetti
"Opposite of Con"

Honorable Mention:
Paul Takeuchi
"Second Act"
Worlds into words into WORLDS
We have made our final decisions for 2008.  Click here to see the  Finalists.