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AWW Contest Winners Winner, Good Read Fiction Book Competition, November 30, 2007 CONGRATULATIONS to THEA HUGHES, the winner of our latest Good Read
novel writing competition! Winner, Good Read Fiction Book Competition, March 31, 2007 Alice Loweecey, Don't Look Back About Don't Look Back: Life in the year 2216 seems to be homespun and comfortable. Annie—cook, book fiend, and wife of the Kansas City leatherworker—was gearing up for a carnival while she waited for her husband to return from a supply trip. And then two hooded men kidnapped her and nailed her to a cross. Strangers pulled her down and healed her, but refused to reveal their identities or answer any of her questions. Now she’s searching for the reason the killers tortured her, but she'd better not stop to look over her shoulder. The killers are hunting her—to finish what they started. Annie gathers clues but can’t fit them together. The killers called her “heretic”—but no one’s heard that word since the Last War ended 203 years ago. Her friends hold secret meetings over fragments of an ancient book. And why does everyone think she’s concealing vital information? But to stop another crucifixion, Annie will have to face more than the killers. About Alice Loweecey A former Franciscan nun, Alice Loweecey was raised on classic horror films and post-nuke literature. She is an actor, musician, singer, teacher, gardener, and crafter. In other words, She Is Woman—see her multitask! Her feature articles and reviews appear on BuddyHollywood.com, TheChristianPEN.com, AGreaterFreedom.com, and TrueTunes.com. Don't Look Back, the first in a series of speculative thrillers, was a finalist in the American Christian Fiction Writers' 2006 Genesis contest. She is the chair of Greater Buffalo Christian Writers and has a BA in English Literature from The Catholic University of America. She lives in Buffalo, New York, with her husband and two sons, and is a proud Band Mom and Soccer Mom. About A Woman's Write "What a great website and opportunity! The chance to be evaluated by professionals was too good to pass up. I've recommended A Woman's Write to a dozen fellow (female!) writers, and I've received positive feedback about everything here. Thank you again for the opportunity and the thrill of winning. May we all soon be sharing shelf space in major bookstore chains!" Honorable Distinction, Good Read Fiction Book Competition, March 31, 2007 Maura Hanrahan, Sheila's Brush About Sheila's Brush In the late 1920s, a young rural woman nearly dies in childbirth. But Sheila Driscoll and her sickly child, Leah, survive. Sheila embraces village life, hard physical work, and the traditional medicine that keeps Leah alive. Despite her husband’s wishes, she is determined to keep Leah an only child. Sheila’s unmarried sister, Claire Farrell, chafes and wants more. Then she is faced with an unwanted pregnancy that would tie her to a life like Sheila’s. Sheila’s Brush is a story of women’s interior lives, as shaped by women’s bodies. It is a tale of love and loyalty, dreams and expectations. About Maura Hanrahan Maura Hanrahan (maurahanrahan.com) is the author, co-author, or editor of eight books in several genres, her latest being Domino: The Eskimo Coast Disaster, a work of creative non-fiction. Her Canadian best-seller, Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster, released in the fall of 2004, won the Heritage and History Award. Several of Maura’s books are used in schools and universities. Also an artist and independent anthropologist, Maura is the author of several hundred newspaper and magazine articles, published mainly in Canada and Britain. She is married to the novelist Paul Butler and lives in St. John’s, Canada’s easternmost city. About A Woman's Write "After six years of working on Sheila’s Brush, I was just thrilled to receive an Honorable Distinction in the Good Read Novel Competition at A Woman’s Write. I’ve published several books in my native Canada but this encouragement from very accomplished women south of the border means a great deal to me. It’s wonderful that the women writers and editors at A Woman’s Write are so dedicated to the craft of writing. They deserve top marks for encouraging other women writers to develop their skills and aim for excellence. Thank you! " Winner, Good Read Fiction Book Competition, June 30, 2007 Erica Eisdorfer, The Wetnurse's Tale About The Wetnurse's Tale The book concerns a young English woman in the 1800s, driven by necessity to become a wetnurse. In the course of her adventures, the heroine loses her first baby to her abusive father's avarice, and when she finds herself pregnant a second time, she determines to take charge of events, setting out on a dramatic, romantic, and sometimes bawdy adventure that ends in satisfaction for both heroine and reader. The book stands out for its tight plotting, believable characterizations, and the author's deft handling of foreign accent and setting, historical detail, and unusual subject matter. Here's what Erica has to say about herself and the book: "The Wetnurse's Tale sprang forth as if full-blown (except for the research and the rewriting and the backtracking and then more rewriting) from the Anglophilic mind of Erica Eisdorfer. The editor of Carolina: Photographs from the First State University and author of two novels besides Wetnurse, Eisdorfer is the longtime manager of the Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC-Chapel Hill. She lives in Carrboro, NC with her husband and two daughters." Here's what she wrote to us about her experience with A Woman's Write: "You can't imagine how I felt when I found your contest online. It seemed to me the perfect place for The Wetnurse's Tale to make its first public (sort of) appearance. It wasn't just that the contest was for women and by women (whom I thought, for obvious reasons, might have an upfront (ha) kind of interest in my book), but in addition, the writing on the website is brisk and tight and clear and grammatical. I liked the whole package. I hoped to win the contest, of course. But I thought that even if I didn't win, I'd still like knowing that the judges were smart and pragmatic and interested in language for its own sake. I'm thrilled to have won the contest. I'm also very glad that I coughed up the extra paltry dollars for the professional critique. It was the best money I ever spent. Thanks so much for the platform and the opportunity and the validation." Honorable Distinction, Good Read Fiction Book Competition, June 30, 2007 Lynn Veach Sadler, Intending to Building a Tower Lynn Veach Sadler, winner of our Honorable Distinction award, is a professional writer. We were impressed with her finely woven, character-rich offering, Intending to Build a Tower, set on the Carolina coast and stuffed to bursting with intricate layers of plot. Bizarre situations lie seductively alongside the commonplace in Sadler's work; the reader doesn't feel comfortable, wants to plunge ahead, until the final page ties up loose ends. Some of Sadler's other writerly distinctions include: Sadler's chapbook, Poet Geography, won the Lee Witte Poetry Contest and was published in the Mount Olive College Poetry Series in 2003. Mothers to the Disappeared, a full-length collection, was a finalist for the 2000 Bakeless Prize of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. The chapbook Having to Try won the 2003 Paris Trail Memorial Creative Writing Award of the Albemarle Literary Center. Her full-length collection, Like a Dragon's Mouth, won the RockWay Press Poetry Award (2005) and is forthcoming, as is a chapbook, America, from Poets' Corner Press. To “Talk in That Book” of Nature received the (2005) Charles Dickson Chapbook Prize of the Georgia Poetry Society. Sadler was invited to be Visiting Scholar/Poet in Israel in December 2001, judged the 2001 Voices Israel International Poetry Competition, was published in Pudding House's (invitational) National Archiving Project, Poets' Greatest Hits (2002), won The Pittsburgh Quarterly's 2001 Sara Henderson Hay Prize for Poetry, tied for first place in Kalliope's 2002 Sue S. Elkind Contest, was a runner-up for the 2002 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize Contest, and won the Poetry Society of America's 2003 Hemley Award and Asphodel's 2003 Poetry Contest. Her stories have been published widely and have won the North Carolina Writers' Network, Talus and Scree, Cream City Review, Rambunctious Review, and Cape Fear Crime Festival competitions. One was a finalist for and was published in Del Sol Press's Best of 2004: The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology. Another won the Abroad Writers 2006 Competition/Fellowship. Her unpublished novel, Tonight I Lie with William Cullen Bryant, was runner-up for the 1997 Dana Award and a finalist in the 2000 Florida First Coast Writers' Festival; Intending to Build a Tower received Honorable Mention in the 2001 Florida First Coast Writers' Festival competition; Long Pig, in the 2005. She was selected for the North Carolina Writers' Network Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series in fiction (1992) and in poetry (2002). Winners, AWW Short Story Contests November 2005 May 2005 August 2004 January 2004
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