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On Wednesday, January 3, the Tampa Writers Alliance announced the winners of the 2006 Annual Writing Contest. They are:

Children’s:

• 1st Place: Martha McIntosh, Timmy Gets His Wish
• 2nd Place: Jan Evans, Harry the Hedgehog
• 3rd Place: Ella Conarton, A Home For Mrs. Carolina Wren
• Honorable Mention: Angela Masterson Jones, What Goes Around

Fiction:

• 1st Place: Richard Aellen, Riding Backward
• 2nd Place: Jo-Ellyn Guggino, The Stamp Collection
• 3rd Place: Gregory McColm, Tall Grass
• Honorable Mention: Warner Conarton, Orderly, 1952
• Honorable Mention: Sandra Kischuk, The Legend of the Lupins

Ed Hirschberg Award for Excellence in Florida Writing:

• 1st Place: Kal Rosenberg, Out From Under The Bus
• 2nd Place: Sandra Kischuk, Clem’s Valet Service
• 3rd Place: Terra Pressler, Surrendering Names
• Honorable Mention: James A. Young, The Privy

Non-fiction:

• 1st Place: Warner Conarton, Dowsing Stonehenge
• 2nd Place: Judy Mancuso, Change of Heart
• 3rd Place: Angela Masterson Jones, One Degree of Kevin Bacon
• Honorable Mention: Terra Pressler, Gifts

Novel:

• 1st Place: Richard Aellen, Sleeping Dogs
• 2nd Place: Warner Conarton, Gatemaster
• 3rd Place: Sue L. LaNeve, The Adventures of Spanky McDougal
• Honorable Mention: Charrie Hazard Moscardini, Of Angels and Archangels

Script:

• 1st Place: Richard Aellen, Surprise Visit
• 2nd Place: Warner Conarton, Period Piece
• 3rd Place: Eugene Orlando, The Importance of Having a Good Handbasket
• Honorable Mention: Sandra Kischuk, What Was Your Price?

Poetry:

• 1st Place: Terra Pressler, Unburied
• 2nd Place: Evelyn Ann Romano, At the Back Door
• 3rd Place: Sandra Kischuk, Playground
• Honorable Mention: Dennis Pupello, Sea Sights Forged Like Gold Coins
• Honorable Mention: Lynn V. Sadler, Monkey Frowns
• Honorable Mention: Eugene Orlando, Swimmers and R and B

Science Fiction/Fantasy:

• 1st Place: Warner Conarton, Total Power Corrupts Totally
• 2nd Place: Dennis Pupello, Snake Eyes
• 3rd Place: G. Thomas Gill, An Ill Wind
• Honorable Mention: Eugene Orlando, The Great Red Spot

Bouncing Ball Books awarded the Tampa Writers Alliance/Bouncing Ball Books publishing contract to Uthaya Kumar for his anthology A Ticket to the Moon.  Finalists in the contest included Barry Newberger (Honorable Mention for Family Jewels), Sandra Kischuk (Honorable Mention for Lucky 13), Phillip Schneider (winner of the Ink Award for his anthology), and Jim Chaplin (Editor’s Choice winner for Meandering Thoughts of a Curious Mind). 

Congratulations, everyone!

At the February 7 general meeting of the Tampa Writers Alliance (7 p.m., John Germany Library), the Carrollwood Players will be on hand to read the four winning plays from the TWA’s October contest:

• 1st Place Script — Surprise Visit by Richard Aellen
• 2nd Place Script — Period Piece by Warner Conarton
• 3rd Place Script — The Importance of Having a Good Handbasket by Eugene Orlando
• Honorable Mention — What Was Your Price? by Sandra Kischuk

Visit www.tampawriters.org for more info.