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Pen 2 Paper 2017 Results

What an amazing year for Pen 2 Paper! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted over 220 pieces of disability fiction, non-fiction, and poetry--more than double what we've ever received! We read so much outstanding work and are proud to announce winners and finalists in each division below. Full entries posted with permission; authors retain all rights.

Grand Prize

Crip Cargo Heidi Johnson-Wright

Non Fiction

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1st Place: Rheumatoid Arthritis Zen Master Extraordinaire Jessica Hitch
2nd Place: Disabled Courtney Felle
Audience Favorite: Manual Reset Anna Kaye-Rogers

Finalists:

• The Space Between Sarina Bosco
• ADD & Me Joyce Frohn
• Bipolar for Dummies Leah Holbrook Sackett
• The Writing Group Gina Humble
• The Night My Father Danced Like Fred Astaire Elizabeth Eve King
• Mouth(y) Privilege Amy Litzinger
• The Structure of Attention Emily Townsend
• More than Meets the Eye Diana L. Walters

Fiction

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1st Place: Everything is Awesome Deanna Altomara
2nd Place: Dementia Dean Gessie
Audience Favorite: The Train to Nowhere: A Fictional Account of My Journey with Crohn's Disease Dejv M. Mutnjakovic

Finalists:

• Humans Rarely Understand Diana Brown
• Saving Minnie John M. Campbell
• Benji Darlene P. Campos
• The Enlightened One's Blessed K. Dearsley
• Pirates from the Start Sandy Hiortdahl
• I Have a Fairy Godmother Gary Kidney
• Wake To Sleep Naomi Kondo
• Munt Hill WP Newnham
• Union Jude Roy
• Meet the Super Humans Deanne Seigle-Buyat
• Conscious Megan Seitz
• (In)significant Other Kell Smith

Poetry

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1st Place: My Grandmother Greets Me as Tommy TJ Reynolds
2nd Place: Mental Psychosis Robert Robeson
Audience Favorite: Never Mind Debz Butler

Finalists:

• We'd Love to be Disabled-friendly, But... Cathy Bryant
• Deaf-Sound Nick Compton
• Silent Ashley Dosdall
• Lovecry/Battlesong Robin M. Eames
• Stick-Abled Helen Vivienne Fletcher
• Migraine vs. Chickenpox Maryanne Frederick
• Ode to Mrs. Hutchinson Sandy Hiortdahl
• To Vanish, and Reappear Jesse Holth
• On Debriefing a Prader-Willi Syndrome Parents' Meeting Terrance N. James
• Glimpsing Joy Olivia Orme
• Mental Brooks Robards
• Hard Megan Wildhood

The Ones that Got Away (posted throughout 2018)