FICTION Winners
1st Place — “Jaxon Square” by Fred Anderson – Phoenix
2nd Place — “Pomp and Circumstance” by Collette Ward – Prescott 3rd Place — “The Living Legend” by Kathleen Ewing – Prescott Valley
Fred Anderson
Photo © 2008 by Susan Lanning Four of the top prizewinners in the 2008 Professional Writers of Prescott
(PWP) writing contest, Fred Anderson, Collette Ward, Frances K. Thomas,
and Leota McCown-Hoover (top, left, bottom, and right) read from their work
on Wednesday, November 19 in the Founders Suite at the Prescott Public Library.
Congrats to all on the polished, evocative, and thought-provoking work!
Fiction runners-up
“Crowning Glory” by Debralee James – Prescott
“Re-entry” by Cathleen Cherry – Prescott
“The Well” by Nancy Chaney – Scottsdale
NON-FICTION winners
1st Place— “The Hunter” by Leota McCown-Hoover – Paulden
2nd Place— “My Neighbor’s Daughters” by Billie Jayne Nightingale – Phoenix
3rd Place— “When Stars Fell All Around Us” by Frances K. Thomas – Prescott
Leota Hoover
Photo © 2008 by Susan Lanning
Nonfiction Runners-up 
“Organizing: Not My Cup of Tea” by Kathleen Ewing – Prescott Valley
“Holy Poop” by Linda I. Simpson – Phoenix
“Dancing on the Waters” by Willma Gore – Sedona
Kathleen Ewing - Fiction winner & Nonfiction runner-up!
Elaine Jordan reading for
laryngitis-impaired Collette Ward
Photo © 2008 by Susan Lanning
2008 FINALIST JUDGES SUSAN LANG is the author of a trilogy published by University of Nevada Press about a woman homesteading in the Southwestern wilderness during the years 1929 to 1941. Lang grew up on her mother's homestead in a remote canyon nearly as wild as the fictionalized valley she portrays. The first novel in the trilogy, Small Rocks Rising, won the 2003 Willa Award. Her second novel, Juniper Blue, was released in 2006 and the third, Moon Lily, was released in August of 2008. Lang says the places and characters in the first two novels are largely modeled on those she knew growing up. Lang’s short stories and poems have been published in magazines such as Red Rock Review, Iris, and The Raven Review,and she was awarded a 2007 Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for her novel-in-progress, The Sawtooth Complex. An instructor of English at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona, for twenty years, she is presently Faculty Emeritus at Yavapai College. She founded and still directs the Southwest Writers Series. She was also director of the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing, which she founded in 1995.
MELANIE BISHOP has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona. She’s published fiction and nonfiction in Glimmer Train, Georgetown Review, Greensboro Review, Florida Review, Valley Guide, Hospice Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Family Circle and UnderWire, an online magazine for women. She’s been awarded residencies at Ucross, Hedgebrook, Hambidge Center for the Arts, and the Eastern Frontier Society’s Norton Island retreat. Bishop has been nominated three times for inclusion in Pushcart Prize, and has been the recipient of a Transatlantic Review Award, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference, and a screenwriting fellowship from the Chesterfield Writers’ Film Project, co-sponsored by Universal Studios and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. The Makeover, a screenplay written during the fellowship year, later went on to place in America’s Best Screenplay Competition. She’s recently completed a screenplay, titled Breath Study with Cranes, funded by a grant from the Wendy Fort Foundation for Dance, Literature and Film. Bishop has taught college-level creative writing for 18 years and is founder and editor of Alligator Juniper, Prescott College’s award-winning, national literary magazine. She’s currently working on a screenplay adaptation of a Rick Bass short story, and seeking representation for memoir, Some Glad Morning. 2008 Contest Guidelines
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