Arizona Authors Assocation Literary Contest Winners

$500 Grand Prize Winner:

Retreat From The Precipice by Duke Southard

 

Published Category Winners:

 

$200 First Place:

At What Cost, Silence? by Karen Lynn Klink

 

$125 Second Place:

Infinite Paradise: Witnessing the Wild by Dianne Ebertt Beeaff

 

$75 Third Place Three-Way Tie:

Old Dogs by Kip Cassino

The Risk of Sorrow: Intimate Conversations with a Holocaust Survivor by Valerie Foster

Feathered Canyons by Jeannette Hanby

 

$50 Fourth Place Two-Way Tie:

Hiding for my Life: Being Gay in the Navy by Karen Solt

Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird by Mike Stark

 

$25 Best of Category Published Fiction Two-Way Tie:

Cut the Tent by Elizabeth Fackler

Finding Zachariah in a Community Garden by Nancy Hicks Marshall

 

$25 Best of Category Nonfiction Two-Way Tie:

Write the Memoir You're Afraid to Write by Patricia L. Brooks

Tales of a Pet Vet: Stories from the Clinic and House Calls by Dr. Dawn Filos

 

$25 Best of Category Oldie But Goldie Fiction:

Out Stealing Water by Roxanne Doty

 

$25 Best of Category Oldie But Goldie Nonfiction Two-Way Tie:

Super Man's Resume: A Beginner's Guide to Resume Writing by Linda Bierwagen

Women Who Push the Limits Presents 50 Life Lessons from Inspiring Women by Lynn W. Murphy

 

Published Youth Category Winners:

 

$200 First Place:

Where Nopalitos Grow by Irma Hersel

 

$125 Second Place Two-Way Tie:

Calvin the Christmas Tree by Stephen G. Bowling

The Weight of Tomorrow by Ranjit Chandra Nair

 

$75 Third Place:

Big Ears Jack and His Friends by Earl Vincent de Berge

 

$50 Fourth Place:

Maya and the Turtle by John Stickler and Soma Han

 

$25 Best of Category Children Under 12:

Lili's Quilt: A Tale of Immigration by Gale Hall

 

$25 Best of Category Youth 12 -18

Santa by David Swift

 

$25 Best of Category Oldie But Goldie Youth

Welcome to Harmony by Dan O'Mahoney

 

Unpublished Category Winners:

 

$200 First Place:

On the Road Again by Jennifer Wrenn

 

$125 Second Place:

Cloudy Skies by Lisa Eaton

 

$75 Third Place:

Shadow and Light by Choi Bi -Gyeol

 

$50 Fourth Place Two -Way Tie:

Birch Tree: The Tree That Makes Love by Choi Bi -Gyeol

Remembrance by Kate Atwell Herbert

 

$25 Best of Category Poetry:

Life Lessons of Late by Natalie Hillerson

 

$25 Best of Category Unpublished Short Fiction:

The Offrenda at the Dealership by Jodie Snyder

 

$25 Best of Category Unpublished Short Nonfiction:

In the Time of Polio by David Wight

 

$25 Best of Category Unpublished Novel/Novellas:

Hattie by Rainey Hall