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Deadline: Postmarked by March 15, 2010 Eligibility: Entrants must live in Kansas. There is no requirement for subject matter. Writers competing in the Youth Division must be under 18 or currently enrolled in high school. Entries: Unpublished poetry or short story competition. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but writers must notify us immediately if an entry has been accepted elsewhere. No single entry may be longer than 20 pages. All entrants will be notified of the contest winners. Judging: Entries will be judged entirely on literary merit. Past judges have been Gar Bethel, Troy Boucher, Denise Low, Janet Peery, Stephen Trapscott, Natalie L. Petesch, Judy Vollmer, Liza Field, Tony Sobin, Rawdon Tomlinson, Frank Parman, Essie Sappenfield, Tom Page, Brian Dietrich, Anna Seaton Huntington Judith Zaccaria, John Jenkinson, Tom Averill, Joan Spilman, Stephen Meats, Gordon Houser, William Sheldon, Debra Seely, William Coleman, Kerry Jones, Amy Fleury, Kathleen DeGrave. Winners: Winners will be notified by April 5, 2010 and will be honored and invited to read at a special presentation. The reading will be held at Winfield Chamber Office in Winfield, during Kanza Days, May 1, 2010 Winning entries may be published by the Kansas Voices contest, however, writers retain all rights. Previous Winners: Thomas Fox Averill, Liza Field, Debra Dockter, Joy Clumsky, Erin Butsch, Sylvia Christianson, Miranda Pultz, Joycelyn Hunt, Ms Wyatt Townley, Amy Viets, Alyssa Steffen, Lesley Owens, Matt Wellner, Austin Meek, Erica Prather, Jennifer Bulmash, John Jenkinson, Jackie Magnuson, K. L. Barron, Kerry Jones, Hazel Hart, Larry Burke, Jenna Wiegert, Maggie Jones, Siobhan Coman, Alex Dryden, Jennifer Johnson, Lois Ruby, Grace Becker, Catherine Evans, Bill DeArmond, Benjamin Boroughs, Kathleen Gilbert, Megan Heacock, Chelsea Growden, Rachael Beaumont, Katherine Settle, Lora Reiter, Lisa Moser, Matt Copeland, Mary-Lane Kamberg, Brenton Phillips, Arna Hememway, Meredith Duling, Abigail Woolley, Myrne Roe, Teri Mott, Barbara Lamborn, Margie Bertucci, Katherine Buel, Herbert Spohn, James Wright, Shala Mills, Tracy Million Simmons, Tom Jacobs, Muthoki Mumo, Megan Burke, Vanessa Zimmerman, Sara Allen, Julia Kraus, Daniel Spees, Christopher Citro, Silas Pena, Roland Sodowsky, Jesse Nathan, Kevin Rabas, Marlene Tilton, Dan Gollub, Jessi Bittel, Alex Chung, Olivia Leif, Hannah Perry, Barry Statham, Lori Kate Martin-Baker, John Cox, Michelle Brown, Sharon Black, Nedra Rogers, William Coleman, Christian Woolley, Sarah Jensen, Ashton Burchfield, Erin Fulton, Elizabeth Engelland, Chas Thompson, Ian Snyder, Roland Sodowsky, and Sabrina Goss. Manuscripts: Manuscripts will not be returned. Do not send your only copy. Type entries on one side only of 8˝ x 11 inch white paper. Poems may be single spaced, but prose must be double-spaced and at least 12 pt. Clear photocopies are acceptable. A copy of the completed entry form must accompany the entries. Titles of all works entered must be listed on the entry form. The writer's name must not appear on the manuscripts. Entry Fee: $3 for each poem or prose submission. Authors may enter as many times as they wish in either category. A $35 fee will be charged for all checks returned NSF. Sponsored
by: Bob & Nancy Love, Wichita Winfield Consumer Products, Winfield ************************************************************************************************************************** 2010 Kansas Voices Contest 21st Winner’s Reading: Saturday, May 1, 2010 7:00 pm Dinner at 6:00 pm Baden Square 700 Gary Winfield, Kansas Below are the winners of the 2010 Kansas Voices Contest. 175 Kansas authors submitted 456 entries! Each entrant is a winner in a special way by letting his or her voice be heard. Adult: Short Story first place – Lori Baker Martin, Edna, Growing Things honorable mention - Linda Niehoff, Baldwin City, It Wasn’t Suppose to Snow Poetry first place – Lisa Moritz, Emporia, The Girl in Summertime honorable mentions – William Coleman, Wichita, Local Weather William Coleman, Wichita, Flight Lisa Moritz, Emporia, Still Running Diane Wahto, Wichita, Physical Education Youth: Short Story first place – Nathan Biller, Manhattan, The Rain Man honorable mention – Erin LeBegue, Wichita, Unclaimed Poetry first place – Noah Trammell, Valley Center, Praise honorable mentions – Majera Johnson, Ft Leavenworth, A Car Speeding Away Tia Braswell, Anthony, Shattered David Michael Vandiver Jr, Hiawatha, My Love, My Lake
Judges for this year's competition were: Poetry judge, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Lawrence Poetry: Caryn has been a poet for over 35 years, and written four books of poetry (Landed, Animals in the House, Reading the Body and Lot's Wife). She also writes fiction and has two novels in the works, and has written a memoir, The Sky Begins At Your Feet. Additionally, she has edited several anthologies. Caryn have a master's of art in creative writing and Ph.D. in English (with a focus on poetry) from the University of Kansas. For more than 17 years, she led community writing groups for many populations, including adults in transition, children and teens, elders, public housing residents, the Latino community in Kansas City, people of color in other locations, men, women, people living with cancer and other serious illness, health professionals and others. Caryn learned a great deal about facilitating such groups through extensive group facilitation training through the bioregional movement. Her facilitation training and experience led her to find the only college program of its kind, Transformative Language Arts, which educates master's level students on using writing, storytelling and performance for community building and personal growth. Caryn has also taught at the college level every semester since the fall of 1986 at the University of Kansas, Friends University, Haskell Indian Nations University, and since 1996, Goddard College, Vermont. Prose judge, Sarah Smarsh, Topeka Prose: Sarah Smarsh is a freelance writer and assistant professor of English at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where she teaches creative nonfiction writing. Sarah has written for The Huffington Post, Kansas City’s The Pitch (Village Voice Media) and newspapers across the Midwest, and has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Kansas Press Association. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, as well as degrees in journalism and English from the University of Kansas. Sarah recently penned two books on Kansas history for Globe Pequot Press. It Happened in Kansas and Outlaw Tales of Kansas (fun!) will be released in paperback in Summer 2010. We also wish to thank: our sponsors - Winfield Daily Courier, Cowley College, CornerBank, Winfield Consumer Products, GE Engine Services, Bob & Nancy Love of Wichita. Underwritten by Winfield Convention and Tourism Please join us at the Reading and Celebration on May 1st ! For more information, call 221-2161.
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