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Pen 2 Paper 2010 Results

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Grand Prize

A Dance in the Woods by Jason Minor

Fiction

• 1st place: Angel by Edie Bakker*
• 2nd place: Song of Heroes by Michael Espinoza
• Honorable Mention: The Color of Music by Mel Finefrock
• Honorable Mention: Dovie Mae by Carol Gilson*
• Honorable Mention: Special Delivery by Eileen Clark

Non-fiction

• 1st place: Both Sides of the Giving Hand by Michele Zink Harris
• 2nd place: Helpless by Chris Strickling and Joyce Dawidczyk*
• Honorable Mention: I'm a Winner by Sraya Gruber
• Honorable Mention: The First Star I See by W. Burns Taylor
• Honorable Mention: The Healing Gun by Jasmine Kent*
• Honorable Mention: I Don't Mess with Boats by Mark Alan Guetzow*
• Honorable Mention: Making My Day by Kathleen Muldoon
• Honorable Mention: Levi by Emily Bentley
• Honorable Mention: Never Mind the Lights-- Where Are the Cabinets in this House by Aundrea
• Honorable Mention: The Dance of Devotion by Joyce Tepley

Poetry

• 1st place: Alphabet Hospital circa Christmas 2002 by Christine Ha
• 2nd place: Socks by Barbara Blanks
• Honorable Mention: Guiding Eyes by Christine Martin
• Honorable Mention: One Art Historian's Lament by Kristi Kneedler
• Honorable Mention: Blind Spot by Shin Yu Pai
• Honorable Mention: Horse and Woman Plummeting from the Sky by Suzette Marie Bishop

The 2010 Pen 2 Paper competition was made possible with the help of:

The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, 12th Street Books, the Austin Bat Cave, Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy, Half Price Books, Houndstooth Coffee, Monkey Wrench Books, Texas Monthly Magazine, Thunderbird Coffee, and Writer Magazine