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GRANDMOTHER EARTH NATIONAL WRITING AWARDS  2010 WINNERS  LIST

POETRY, JUDGE: LOLA HASKINS

 

1^st        The Baby, Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA

2^nd        His Mind, Wordless, Marian K. Shapiro, Lexington, MA

3^rd        Remembering Walden and Who I Was, Russell H. Strauss, Memphis TN

4^th        To My Daughter on a Fine Fall Day, Carol Carpenter, Livonia, MI

1HM    The Cotton Pickers, P M F Johnson, St. Paul, MN

2HM    Marbleized, Patricia A. Oplinger, Cherokee Village, AR

 

Special Recognition

Pastoral, Claude Wilkinson, Nesbit, MS

Light Digging Dog, Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA

Vacated, Malu Graham, Memphis, TN

Mama’s Windows, Carol Carpenter, Livonia, MI

Outside the Skin, P M F Johnson, St. Paul, MN

A Small Place of Her Own, Jeanine Mah, Memphis, TN

 

PROSE, JUDGES: BETTY HEIDELBERGER AND JOHN MURPHREE

 

1^st        Mattie’s Place, Christine Osborne, Jonesborough, TN

2^nd        Memory Lane, Jo Anne Allen, Grand Junction, CO

3^rd        Cherry Pie, Elsie Schmied Knoke, Oak Ridge, TN

1HM    No Switches, Please, Jeanne S. Kelly, Madison, MS

2HM    Aunt Zeenie’s Wild Ride, Anne H. Norris, Collierville, TN

3HM    Magnet Mommy, Susan Harvey, Murrells Inlet, SC

 

HAIKU AND SHORT FORM, JUDGE: THOMAS MCDANIEL

 

1^st        Crash, Jerri Hardesty, Brierfield, AL

2^nd        Harsh words…, Jeanine Mah, Memphis, TN

3^rd        Sharp contrast…Dena R. Gorrell, Edmond, OK

1HM    Crying Rocks, Vincent J. Tomeo, Flushing, NY

Autumn leaf…Beverly Stanislawski, Crown Point, IN

2HM    Poetry Reading II, Vincent J. Tomeo, Flushing, NY

Dew touched…Anne-Marie Legan, Herrin, Il

3HM    Calliope, Kevin Shaw, Rochester, NY

Summer emeralds…, Sara Gipson, Scott, AR

 

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS, JUDGES: ANN CAROLYN AND TERREL CATES

 

1^st        Drilling Disaster, Wynne Huddleston, Little Rock, MS

2^nd        Last Tiger, Russell H. Strauss, Memphis TN

3^rd        Sunset Through the Trees, Patricia A. Oplinger, Cherokee Village, AR

1HM    The Quarry, Jeanine Mah, Memphis, TN

2HM    Beaver, Jim Barton, Huttig, AR

3HM    Earth Day, D. Beecher Smith, II, Memphis, TN

 

HUMOROUS AWARDS, JUDGE: MADALYN STANFORD

 

1^st        Always Thrifty--Almost, Annetta Talbot Beauchamp, Helena, AR

2^nd        Uncle Frank…, D. Beecher Smith, II, Memphis, TN

3^rd        Chartreuse, Florence Bruce, Memphis, TN

1HM    When Barrymore Performed …, D. Beecher Smith, II, Memphis, TN

2HM    Class Reunion, Jeanine Mah, Memphis, TN

3HM    And That’s Not All, Russell H. Strauss, Memphis TN

 

POETRY SOCIETY OF TENNESSEE AWARDS, JUDGE: MARTHA MCNATT

 

1^st        Picking Blackberries, Leslie Blakeburn, Memphis, TN

2^nd        A Piece of Glass, Jeanine Mah, Memphis, TN

3^rd        The Mississippi, Elizabeth Pell, Memphis, TN

1HM    Scrutinizing a Snail, Russell H. Strauss, Memphis TN

2HM    For Pat, Elizabeth Pell, Memphis, TN

Last Tiger, Russell H. Strauss, Memphis TN

A Fair Day, Sara Gipson, Scott, AR

Hanging Upside Down, Florence Bruce, Memphis, TN