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Winners announced in Laughing Gull contest
The results of the fifth annual
Texas Laughing Gull Writing Contest
are in.
The contest, sponsored by the
Art Center for the Islands, solicited
submissions of fiction, non-fiction
and poetry.
An April awards reception is
planned, and details will be announced
later. A surprise award will
be revealed at the reception.
An anthology of submitted works
will be available by mid-April at the
Art Center for the Islands and the
Port Aransas Business Center. They
can be ordered now for mailing at the
Art Center for the Islands.
Winners in each category for the 2008 contest are:
POETRY
First: Marguerite Mooers, Potsdam,
N.Y., The Texas Wind
Second: Beverly Charles, Port
Aransas, Birth
Third: Sherri Summers Hunt, Corpus
Christi, The Laughing Gulls
Honorable Mention: Marilee Ross,
Port Aransas, At Tea; Jim Wilson,
Abilene, Poetry Floats;
Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale,
Calif., All that Glitters Is Not; Jerry-
Mac Johnston, Springfield, Mo., China
Chef Lunch
FICTION
First: Beverly Charles, Port
Aransas, Gratitude Second: Luci Walker, Corpus
Christi, Womb Blues
Third: Gerry Wettersten, Port
Aransas, Time Traveler
Honorable Mention: Jan Fielden,
Fairfield, The Cowboy; F. Kavanagh,
New Braunfels, The Best-Laid
Plans
NON-FICTION
First: Elizabeth Bernays, Tuscon,
Ariz., A Walk on Limantour Beach
Second:L.J. Reed, Port
Aransas, The Chevron Café
Third: Orville Ballard,
Riviera, Dragging
Honorable Mention: Meredith
Norwood, San Antonio, On Vacation?;
Patricia Holt, Port Aransas, An
American Visits Beqa Refugee Camp
- Jordan; Beverly Charles, Port
Aransas, A Certain - Musings at
Fifty Six
SECOND ANNUAL EMERGING
WRITERS POETRY CONTEST
The TONI Award ($50): Danielle
Halvorson, 10th Grade, PAHS, Sisters
First ($50): David Thrasher,
11th grade, PAHS, What I Am
Second ($30): Hannah Coulter,
12th grade, PAHS, My Mother's Eyes
Third ($20) Cassandra Peacock,
11th grade, PAHS, Lock it, Locket
Honorable Mention ($10): Trey
Wilson, 12th grade, PAHS, Pathological
Liars; Alyssa Crawford,
12th grade, PAHS, Politicians; Josephine
Green, ninth grade, Flour Bluff
High School, Canvas of Life;
Krystal Wilson, Ingleside High
School, To Love Someone; Jennifer
Garibay, Ingleside High School, The
Sea, oh the Sea.
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