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The fall 2009 Written Art Awards Winners Below is the list of finalists in each category. Go to 2010 Submission Guidelines

best fiction

ReBecoming: The Way of Opportunity - J. R. Maxon

best nonfiction

Sending Your Child to College - Marie Pinak Carr

fiction: General fiction

First: ReBecoming: The Way of Opportunity - J. R. Maxon

Second: For the Love of Dogs - Suzanne Woods Fisher

Honorable Mention: Beauty - Mindi Meltz

fiction: mystery/thriller

First: Rigged for Murder - Jenifer LeClair

Second: Judgment Day - Sheldon Siegel

Honorable Mention: Painless - Bill Poje

fiction: humor/satire

First: Rue de la Pompe: A Satiric Urban Fantasy - James Earle McCracken

Second: Who's To Blame? - Jeffery S. Williams

Honorable Mention: Henry Potty and the Dealdly Paper Shortage - Valerie Estelle Frankel

fiction: Science Fiction/fantasy

First: The TrailFolk of Xunar-Kun - Tina Field Howe

Second: Ratha's Courage - Clare Bell

Honorable Mention: Legacy of the Archbishop - Debra Kileen

nonfiction: general nonfiction

First: Railroad 1869: Along the Historic Union Pacific - Eugene Arundel Miller

Second: Something of the Turtle - Sandra Clayton

Honorable Mention: Confessions of a 'Sixties Priest - James O'Brien

nonfiction: creative nonfiction

First: Sending Your Child to College - Marie Pinak Carr

Second: Confessions of a Former Child - Daniel J. Tomasulo

Honorable Mention: The Art of Everyday Joe - Michael Corbin

nonfiction: self-help

First: The Genie in Your Genes - Dawson Church

Second: Critical Conditions - Martine Ehrenclou

Honorable Mention: Seeing True - Ronald Chapman

nonfiction: spirituality/religon

First: Why? - Mandeep Khera

nonfiction: Poetry

First: Origin - Paul Kiritsis

Second: Six Feet Down - Michael Kasenow

Honorable Mention: Fifty Confessions - Paul Kiritsis

Honorable Mention: Pegasus at the Plow - Patrick Walker