Award winners were announced today at the 34th annual Wyoming Writers, Inc., conference in Casper.
At the conference luncheon, results were announced for the fiction writing contest:
First Place: Tom Bass, Budapest, Hungary, and Torrington, Wyo., for "Live the Legend," an excerpt from a novel, "Pleasure and Progress."
Second Place: Tom Bass, "Raskalnikov's American Dream," an excerpt from an adaptation of "Crime and Punishment" for the 125th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's death.
Third Place: Gretchen Dawn Yost, Philipsburg, Mont., "Pumpkin Carving."
Honorable mentions: Jerry Sanders, Rawlins, "Cat's Cradle;" and Mary Beth Baptiste, Laramie, "Yellow-Haired Boys Scaling Lemon Trees."
Results for the free-verse poetry contest:
First Place: Robert E. Druchniak, Evanston, "My Wife Bird Watching."
Second Place: Cameron Byrne, Riverton, "a strong desire for something filling."
Third Place: Cameron Byrne, "We Are What We Piece Together."
Honorable Mentions: Pat Frolander, Sundance, "Prairie Reclamation;" "Robert E. Druchniak, "Walking to Work;" Cameron Byrne, "Moment;" Aaron E. Holst, Sheridan, "First Day of Autumn;" A. Rose Hill, Sheridan, "Chemo;" and Cameron Byrne, "Near the Oyster Beds at Marennes."
Results for the traditional poetry category:
First Place: Shelagh Wulff-Wisdom, Douglas, "Giving Wishes."
Second Place: Fred Savage, Rawlins, "Bronco Fred."
Third Place: Shelagh Wulff-Wisdom, "Fences."
