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2008 Missouri Writers’ Guild Annual Conference Awards
(Categories, Judges, Winners, and Sponsors)
Category 1: Walter Williams Major Work Award (sponsored by Missouri Center for the Book, 600 West Main, P.O. Box 2075, Jefferson City, MO 65102-2075):
1st place - Ellen Gray Massey, Brothers Blue and Gray
2nd place - Barri Bumgarner, Dregs
3rd place - Faherty, S.J., William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., Daughter of the Rising Moon
Judge: Kathy Leitle grew up in Billings, Missouri. She has a bachelor's degree in English from SMSU(Missouri State) and a master's in library science from the University of Missouri - Columbia. She was a school librarian at Norwood Public School and Sparta Public School, a children's librarian/branch manager at the Springfield-Greene County Library, and currently works for the St. Louis Public Library where she is the Associate Deputy Director. One of her responsibilities is providing Reader's Advisory training for the library staff. This training helps staff better assist patrons who want help finding a book to read.
Category 2: Best Newspaper Article (sponsored by Missouri Press Association, 802 Locust St. Columbia, MO 65201-7799):
1st place - Marti Attoun, “Road Readers Brake for Gas”
2nd place - Patsy Bell Hobson “Sweet Memories of the First Kiss”
3rd place - Kathie Sutin “Bunco in the ‘Burbs”
Honorable Mention Pamela Selbert “A Ride on the Old Lincoln”
Judge: Jean Noellsch is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, where she received recognition for academic achievements and student leadership. She has more than 30 years experience with writing and editing news and features for various publications, including both daily and weekly newspapers. She also has created and edited customer news publications for two corporate clients. She now lives in Central Illinois, is married to a fellow MU grad, and the mother of two grown sons (also MU grads). She is a news correspondent for The News-Gazette. She admits to continually “editing” her own and others’ articles, even after publication.
Category 3: Best Magazine or Anthology Article(Sponsored by Inside Columbia magazine, 19 E Walnut St. Columbia, MO 65203):
1st place - Jennifer Brown “Elma Hopkins: The Art of a Century”
2nd place - Donna Volkenannt “Discovering Missouri's Buried Treasures”
3rd place - Dianna Graveman “Embarrassment”
1st Honorable Mention - Patsy Bell Hobson “He's Got the Dirt”
2nd Honorable Mention - Larry Wood “Sacred Ground”
Judge: Regina Williams began writing in 1992 and has been published in both fiction and nonfiction in Horse/Mule Magazine, Blackpowder Annual, Rural Arkansas, Black Petals Magazine, Smile: American Short Humor Anthology, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Ozarks Monthly, Tales of the South Anthology, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Fiction Addiction (online), Writing on Walls I & II, Echoes of the Ozarks I, II & III, Shadows After Midnight Anthology, Cuirve River Anthology, to name a few. Regina has also won numerous writing awards including the Dan Saults two years in a row from Ozarks Writers League and the Showcase Award from Ozarks Creative Writers. She has a suspense story (under the name Regina Cook Williams) on Amazon.com and was nominated for a Spur Award for 2008. She is the editor/publisher of The Storyteller Magazine, which helps keep her inspired by reading all the great stories that come her way. Check out her Web site at http://www.freewebs.com/reginaw
Category 4: Best Short Story (Sponsored by Sweetgum Press P. O. Drawer J Warrensburg, Missouri 64093):
First Place – Von Pittman “Covering the Spread”
Second Place – Catherine Browder “A Tour of the Country”
Third Place – Donna Volkenannt “Running for the Fence”
First Honorable Mention Dianna Graveman “Perseids”
Second Honorable Mention C. J. Winters “The Tanzanite Curse”
Judge: Susan Kirkpatrick is founder & editor of Ozarks Magazine, a bimonthly publication about the Ozarks today. Kirkpatrick, whose Ozarks roots go back five generations, is a former reporter for Springfield Newspapers, Inc., and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She has earned her living as an executive speechwriter, Corporate Affairs executive, has lived and worked in Europe, and was president of her own corporate communications firm. She is the author of Route 66, the Highway & Its People, published by the University of Oklahoma Press and now in its 9th printing. She is also a freelance writer for local, regional, and national publications and contributed a chapter to The Handbook of Strategic Public Relations.
Category 5: Best Poem:
1st Place - Mary-Lane Kamberg "Poetry Mechanic"
2nd Place - Sally Jadlow "169 Highway Kansas City to Tulsa"
3rd Place - Susan Kneib Schank "Just After You Were Born"
Ist Honorable Mention Barri Bumgarner "Open Window"
2nd Honorable Mention Eva Ridenour "Hunting Mushrooms"
Judge: Harvey Stanbrough's poetry has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Award as well as several other awards. He works as a freelance editor of novels from his home outside Huachuca City, Arizona. Visit his Web site at StoneThread.com.
Category 6: Best Juvenile Short Work (non-book) (Sponsored by Ozarks Writers League, 831 Plank School Road, Marshfield, Missouri 65706):
1st place- Lizabeth Peak “The Legend of the Devil's Millhopper”
2nd place- C.J. Winters “White Elephants”
3rd place- Susan Kneib Schank “Goldfish Town”
Honorable Mention Linda Perkins “Snow Ice Cream”
Judge: Alice B. McGinty is the author of 40 books for children. She writes and publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children. Her most recent picture books are Thank You, World (Illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin, Dial Books, 2007) and Eliza's Kindergarten Surprise (Illustrated by Nancy Speir, Marshall Cavendish, 2007). Ms. McGinty is the SCBWI Illinois Downstate Coordinator. She lives in Urbana, IL with her husband and two sons.
Category 7 and 8: Best Sci Fi/Horror Poem or Short Story (Sponsored by the Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers’ Guild):
1st place - Susan Peters "The Seat On The End"
2nd Place - Judith Stock "Whose House"
3rd Place - Henry Stratmann "Jurisimprudence"
Judge: Amanda Miller is an attorney in Columbia, Missouri, who is well respected for her legal writings. An avid reader, she reports a keen interest in true crime, horror, and quality science fiction.
Category 9: Best Ghost Story/Tall Tale/Legend (Sponsored by The Joplin Writers’ Guild):
1st place - Jud Miner "Welsh Pasty? What's That?"
2nd place - Linda Fisher "A Man Called Rabbit"
3rd place - Jennifer Jiang "A Dinosaur Goes By"
1st Honorable Mention - Marilyn Sarratt "The Light in the Upstairs Room"
2nd Honorable Mention - Kimberly Wisneski "Number 3"
3rd Honorable Mention - Jeannette Kleindl for "The Homesteaders That Came Back"
Judge: Kay Hively is editor of The Post, a weekly rural newspaper. She is also a weekly columnist and a regular feature writer for The Neosho Daily News. Kay has written many serialized historical fiction stories for kids that have run in newspapers in thirty states and one foreign country. She is the author of several gospel songs, including three that appeared on a Grammy-nominated duet album by Merle Haggard and Al Brumley, Jr. She has written several books, mostly historical or biographical, and numerous
magazine articles. A graduate of Missouri Southern State University with a degree in history, Kay taught freelance writing at Crowder College for about seven years.
Category 10: Best Flash Fiction (Sponsored by Saturday Writers):
1st Place - Susan Kneib Schank “Freedom”
2nd Place - Patsy Zettler “Big Britches on a Rusty Bike”
3rd Place - Donna Volkennant “Muscle Memory”
Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)
Warren Bull “The War Bride”
Von Pittman “No Greater Crime”
Susan Peters “Nails”
Judge: Ana Aragón is a new author to the romance genre but got her start early by listening at the feet of her mother and grandmothers, who loved to regale their offspring with enchanting stories told in the lyrical Spanish of their heritage. Her first commercial book, Sidelined by Love, is available at The Wild Rose Press in both e-format and trade publication. She loves to hear from other authors and welcomes e-mail correspondence at anaaragonwrites@yahoo.com.
Category 11: Best Query Letter (Sponsored by Whispering Prairie Press/Kansas City Writers’ Group):
1st place - Jennifer Brown Letter to Cori DeYoe regarding BIG HOPE
2nd place - Diana West Letter to K.C. Compton at Grit
3rd place - Marti Attoun Letter to Chandra Czape at Ladies' Home Journal
Honorable Mention - Veda Boyd Jones Letter to Tamson Weston at Gulliver Books
Judge: Katie Van Luchene is executive editor of KC Magazine and Kansas City Home Design magazine. As editor, she launched KC Magazine in 2004, KC Business in 2006 and supported the re-launch of Kansas City Home Design in 2007. She has also edited two books for Anthem: Kansas City Home Design and 5 for the Fans, a fifth-year celebration of the Kansas Speedway. Prior to becoming editor, Katie was a freelance feature writer and columnist for Kansas City Magazine and Kansas City Home Design before the titles were purchased by Anthem Media. Her work has also appeared in Midwest Living and Budget Travel.
Katie’s book, Insiders’ Guide to Kansas City, was published by Globe Pequot Press in 2003 and won the Mark Twain award for “Best Travel Guidebook” from the Midwest Travel Writers Association that year. The third edition was published in January 2008.
Category 12: Best Riverside Story (Sponsored by Writers’ Society of Jefferson Couny):
First place--- Verna Perkins “The Boys on Gravois Creek”
Second place--- Patsy Zettler “River Rats”
Third place--- Claudia Mundell “Fishing Season”
Honorable Mention--- Gary Hoffman “An Old Dog”
Judge: Julie Failla Earhart has a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Missoui-St. Louis. She has many fiction and nonfiction publications. Her fiction includes Home Sweet Home & Other Dangerous Places, a short story collection, and Kent’s Heavenly Adventure (A Toots Publication). She has stories in the following anthologies and on-line journals: Harvest, Cuivre River, Cuivre River Two, Echoes of the Ozarks I, II, III, Sweetgum Notes, Taj Mahal Review (three stories), The Storyteller, Insights: A Collection of Contemporary Short Stories, Well Versed (2004, 2003, 2002), The Color Gallery: An Anthology of World's Great Short Stories, Passions, Palimpsest, and a One-Act Play “Death in the Afternoon,” in Stirring: A Literary Collection. Her articles and essays can be found in Sauce Magazine, Show-Me Missouri Magazine, Armchair Interviews, Bookmarks Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 13 Traveling Journal Project contributor, PopCobbler Magazine, AAA Midwest Traveler Magazine, Frontier Airlines, AAA Southern Traveler, Spirit Seeker Magazine, and various newsletters. She works in the St. Louis Public Library's marketing department.
Category 13: Best Aging Essay (Sponsored by St. Louis Writers’ Guild):
1st place Gerry Mandel “The Secret's in the Mail”
2nd place Janet Sunderland “To Everything a Season”
3rd place Linda O’Connell “Joy Ride of My Life”
1st Honorable Mention Phyllis Galley Westover “Last Times”
2nd Honorable Mention Mary Basler “What Remains”
Judge: Jason Cowan completed undergraduate and graduate work at Southeast Missouri State University. He currently works in the Writing Center and teaches composition at Jefferson Community College.
Category 14: Best Form Poem (Sponsored by Springfield Writers’ Guild):
First place - Larry Cunningham for a villanelle "Legacy"
Second place -- Marilyn K. Smith for a hexaduad "A Fact of Life"
Third place -- Bridget Bufford for a sestina "November"
Honorable Mention -- Judith A. Stock for a Shakespearian sonnet "Kaffeeklatsch"
Judge: Tom Padgett celebrates small-town life in his poetry; that should be no surprise. After his university years, he taught three years as a secondary school teacher and thirty years as a professor at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. After retirement from university teaching, Tom Padgett collected six chapbooks from his published poems.His latest book, a full-sized book, The Way We Live: New and Selected Poems, was published in July of 2004. Formerly the chancellor and currently the webmaster of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies and also currently the secretary and webmaster (and founder) of the Missouri State Poetry Society, he edits Thirty-Seven Cents, a poetry e-zine monthly now in its eighth year. He also edited the state poetry anthology, Grist, for five years, and Spare Mule, the state poetry newsletter, for seven years.
Category 15: Best Ozarks Article (Sponsored by Ozarks Mountaineer, 1431 Graham Drive, Suite 150,
Tomball, TX 77375):
First Place Lee Ann Russell “Amish-No Phone”
Second Place Susan K. Jaeger “Caving: The Ultimate Saturday Adventure”
Third Place Marti Attoun “Cassville's Fishin' Tradition”
1st Honorable Mention Diana West “The Mysterious Mountain Maid”
2nd Honorable Mention Larry Wood “Bloody Day in Brookline: The Young Brothers Massacre”
Judge: John Rutherford is a local history associate at the Springfield-Greene County Library. He is an award winning exhibit designer, co-author of the Springfield-Greene County Library’s Web site about O’Reilly General Army Hospital, and a military family history specialist. John has published a number of articles about Springfield history and Route 66 history, including O’Reilly General Army Hospital. He was the genealogy columnist for 50 Plus magazine. He has been a creative writing contest judge. On behalf of the Rachel Donelson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, he judged essays on “patriotism and citizenship.” He also was ICON computer users group’s judge for an essay contest: “The U.S. Military’s Relevance in Modern Day Society.”
Category 16: Best Column (Sponsored by Missouri Press Association, 802 Locust St. Columbia, MO 65201-7799):
First Place -- Jennifer Brown
Second Place-- Marti Attoun
Third Place -- Andra Stefanoni
First Honorable Mention - Dianne Peck
Second Honorable Mention - Larry Wood
Judge: Jim Steele is a native of St. Louis. For the last eight years, he owned, published, and edited the Fayette Advertiser and Democrat-Leader. He has been active in a variety of community affairs. He has edited regional (statewide) newspapers for the United Methodist Church for a number of years, beginning in 1976. Before that, he did editorial work for the Missouri State Teachers, did public relations for Central Methodist University, taught school in Ashland, and was a newsman-talk show host for KFRU, Columbia. Steele has degrees from the Missouri School of Journalism and Central Methodist University.
Category 17: Best Book About Missouri (Sponsored by Bittersweet, Inc.):
First Place-- Larry Wood Other Noted Guerrillas of the Civil War in Missouri
Second Place -- Doris Land Mueller M. Jeff Thompson: Missouri’s Swamp Fox of the Confederacy
Third Place -- James F. Muench Five Stars: Missouri’s Most Famous Generals
First Honorable Mention -- William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., Centuries of St. Louis
Second Honorable Mention -- Rolland Love and Mary-Lane Kamberg, Homegrown in the Ozarks: Mountain Meals and Memories
Judge: Dr. Shelly J. Croteau is the assistant archivist for the Missouri State Archives.
Category 18: Best Restaurant Review (Sponsored by Sauce magazine, 1820 Chouteau Ave. St. Louis, Missouri 63103):
1st place Diana West “Pick the Briar Patch”
2nd place Sylvia Forbes “Bingham's: The Tradition Continues”
3rd place Lynn Obermoeller “Kari's Surf & Sirloin”
Judge: Judith M. Fertig, a food and lifestyle writer, has published work in Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Cooking Light, and Southern Living. She is the author of 15 cookbooks, including her latest (co-authored with Karen Adler) BBQ Bash: The Be-All, End-All Party Guide from Barefoot to Black Tie (Harvard Common Press, 2008).
Category 19: Best Historical Article (Sponsored by Rural Missouri, P.O. Box 1645 Jefferson City, MO 65102):
1st place Elizabeth Hey "Westward Ho!"
2nd place Sylvia Forbes "Home of the Brave"
3rd place Marti Attoun "Saving Sacred Places"
1st Honorable Mention Lizabeth Peak "All That Is Loathsome"
2nd Honorable Mention Diana West "The Fish Car Era"
3rd Honorable Mention Larry Wood "Bill Doolin and the Southwest City Bank Robbery"
Judge: Roy Bird published his first historical article in 1974 while still an undergraduate in college. Since then, he has published over 200 articles and historical short stories in scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. He has published 15 books, most recently Civil War in Kansas and Civil War and the Indian Wars. He was an adjunct composition and history professor for more than 20 years, while working as a full-time librarian for the State Library of Kansas. Today, he is the director of the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas.
Category 20: Best Nostalgia (Sponsored by Rural Missouri, P.O. Box 1645 Jefferson City, MO 65102):
1st place Beverly Reid "Drivers' Ed"
2nd place Marti Attoun "Fill 'er Up, Please!"
3rd place Tricia Sanders "Down Home"
Honorable Mention - Larry Wood “Saturday Night in Fair Grove”
Judge: Lora K. Reiter, Ph. D. from the University of Kansas, is a retired professor of English who lives in Ottawa, Kansas. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in such publications as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Cottonwood, The Kansas Quarterly,The Arkansas Quarterly, The I-70 Review, and San Jose State Studies. She has work in Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin) and Crazy Woman
Creek (Houghton Mifflin). She was a finalist in the 2007 New Letters Alexander Cappon competition, and the current Kansas City Voices has one of her poems and a short story. She has won many prizes for her poetry and prose, including Seaton awards in both genres, Kansas Authors Club awards, and first place in Kansas Voices (poetry) and Solomon Valley Heritage Association (poetry and essays). Her publications include One Was Annie, a novel (2006), and Animals Galore and Love Unconditional, essays (2008). A third book, Snake in the Cradle, poetry, will be released later this year.
Category 21, Best Health Article (Sponsored by Mid-Missouri Mature Living, 19 E Walnut St. Columbia, MO 65203):
1st Place-- Diana West “I Won Over Weight”
2nd Place-- Linda Fisher “Writing as Therapy - Rocks & Pebbles”
3rd Place-- Faye Adams “Saved By a Blood Clot”
1st Honorable Mention-- Dianna O’Brien “Barbara Rippel: A Last Request”
2nd Honorable Mention-- Lee Ann Russell “Sanctuary”
Judge: Simran Sethi is a freelance journalist reporting on issues of social and environmental sustainability. The award-winning journalist is a contributing environmental correspondent and expert for NBC News and the Lacy C. Haynes Visiting Professional Chair at the University of Kansas School of Journalism, where she currently teaches a course on Media and the Environment. Sethi is writing a book on the impacts of American consumption for Harper Collins and is the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (Chelsea Green, 2007), the companion guide to the first PBS series on sustainable business Ethical Markets for which she served as host and writer. She was named an inaugural Goddard Fellow by New York University (September 2007) and is an Associate Fellow for the Asia Society (November, 2007). Sethi has contributed environmental segments to The Oprah Winfrey Show and has been featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Today Show, and Martha Stewart Show, highlighting ways we can become more environmentally friendly.
Category 22: Best Humorous Article (Sponsored by JoAnna Dale):
First Place-- Dawn Downey “Back to School”
Second Place-- Linda Fisher “Smarter Than the Box”
Third Place-- Tricia Sanders “Closet Roulette”
First Honorable Mention-- Marti Attoun “Greetings from Loonyville”
Second Honorable Mention-- Anne Mallinson “Ruination”
Judge: Dusty Rainbolt is an award-winning cat writer, according to her answering machine. She’s the author of the humorous cat care books, Cat Wrangling Made Easy: Maintaining Peace and Sanity in Your Multicat Home and Kittens For Dummies. Her new book Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits recently won the coveted Cat Writers’ Association Muse Medallion for Excellence in Books. In her real job, Dusty writes pet product reviews for the Tufts’ University publication, Catnip, so she can get free cat stuff. Her monthly pet column “Dear Hobbes,” has won Muse Medallions for Best Humor piece. She’s also the author of a science-fiction novel, All the Marbles and co-author of The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse.
Category 23: Best Business Article (Sponsored by Columbia Business Times, Chris Harrison | General Manager | Ext. 1010 | charrison@columbiabusinesstimes.com):
1st Place-- Veda Boyd Jones “A Spiritual Moment”
2nd Place-- Diana West “Ozark Physician Named Rural Doctor of the Year”
3rd Place-- Sally Jadlow “Forever Eyes”
Judge: Lee Radcliff is the publisher/editor of Show Me The Ozarks Magazine, a regional magazine promoting the four states. Show Me The Ozarks Magazine was created in 2001 and will be seven years old in August of 2008.
Category 24: Best Travel Article (Sponsored by Missouri Life, 515 E. Morgan St. Boonville, Missouri 65233):
1st Place-- Mary-Lane Kamberg “An Enchanted World: A Writer's Journey to the Maui Writers’ Conference”
2nd Place-- Elizabeth Hey “Red Rock Holiday”
3rd Place-- Patsy-Bell Hobson “Bough Wow”
Judge: Pam Grout is the author of 14 books, including this year's 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life (National Geographic, May 2008) and Girlfriend Getaways (Globe-Pequot, 2005). Her travel articles have appeared in such magazines as Cooking Light, Travel & Leisure, Outside, and Midwest Living. She's a Midwest stringer for People magazine and writes an award-winning travel column, "Now, Where Was I?"
Category 25: Best Juvenile Book (Sponsored by Missouri State Teachers’ Association, P.O. Box 458, 407 S. Sixth St. Columbia, MO 65205):
1st Place-- J.B. Cheaney “The Middle of Somewhere”
2nd Place-- Chalise Borque “One Right Thing”
3rd Place-- Lizabeth Peak “Sickle Cell Disease”
1st Honorable Mention-- Phyllis Galley Westover “Sold to the Highest Bidder”
2nd Honorable Mention-- Jennifer Jiang “The Rugged Road”
Judge: Anna Myers is the author of 16 novels for young people, all published by Walker and Company of New York. Number 17 will be published next fall. Most of her books are historical fiction. She graduated from Chandler High School and what is now the University of Central Oklahoma.She has been honored by both schools with a with a distinguished alumina award. She taught English for a number of years, including 17 years in Chandler Junior High School.
Awards for her books include three Oklahoma Book Awards, Parents’ Choice Awards, American Library Association Quick Pick, Independent Publishers’ Award, New York Public Library’s Books to Read and Share, American Bookseller’s Pick of the List, Bank Street College Children’s Books of the Year, New York Public Library ‘s Books for the Teenager, and inclusion on children’s choice lists more than 25 times.
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