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Pen 2 Paper 2019 Results

With nearly 400 pieces of disability fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and comics, we continue to break the previous year's record for entries received! Our deepest thanks to everyone who submitted work to this year's annual Pen 2 Paper Creative Writing Competition (P2P).

Linked entries are posted with permission; authors retain all rights. Please note that starred entries contain strong language, graphic violence, or sexual content.

Grand Prize

I Didn't Think Nick Minges

Poetry

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First Place & Audience Favorite: Faces of Adam Marcia Pradzinski
Second Place: #480 Just Another Day in Winter Ashlee-Ann Sneller
Finalists:

• Broken Sarah Cannavo
• Deployment Clara Klein
• Disobedience Josephine Pino
• Explaining my Neurodivergence to the World (After Sabrina Benaim) Sara Capanna
• For Those Who Dream of Exotic Places Sasha Saben Calleghan
• The Literature of Prescription Rita Martinez
• A Living Entity Sue Mitchell
• Mi hija, Angelica Esquivel
• Richard III Rebecca Ruth Gould
• Tested Jaime Chernoch
• Trying Not to be Dead Kirsty Niven
• The Valley: A Prose Poem Mary McGinnis

Non-Fiction

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First Place: Lip Reading Och Gonzalez
Second Place: Ticka-Ticka-Tap @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ Nicole Popel
Audience Favorite: Complete Comfort Rose Shrader
Finalists:

• As Is Nathan Long
• Complete Comfort Rose Shrader
• Confessions of a Sleeping Beauty River Kozhar
• An Elegy to Give to My Sadness on Our Wedding Day * Anastasia Jill
• A Ghost, Content Chelsea Comeau
• Honestly, It Put Me Right off My Luncheon Nina Fosati
• Light Waves Will Find Me Mel Finefrock
• Look at Me Dawn Carrington
• Mr. Three and Me Meghan Beaudry
• Not Blooming Randi Glatzer
• Silent Fury Barbara Pengelly
• The Sun She Carries Mariah Montoya
• Wrap Me up and Tie it with a Bow Shawna Borman

Fiction

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First Place: The Castle Kitsilano Emily Coletta
Second Place: Carl's Night Out * John Power
Audience Favorite: Heartless * VA Christie
Finalists:

• The Constant Visitor Meghan Beaudry
• The Deeping Tuesday Jones
• The Eventuality of a Speeding Car Jill Young
• Goodnight, Barry Ethan Steers
• Heartless * VA Christie
• Iskierka, a Little Spark Clara Klein
• Life with Angie DC Diamondopolous
• The New Table Diane Thomas-Plunk
• The Passenger * Owen Boyd
• The Queen's Silent Hands Sara Vossler
• The Stirring David Douglas
• Stranger than Fiction * Will Westmoreland
• That Walmart Kind of Loving Anastasia Jill

Comics

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First Place & Audience Favorite: Spoons: A Diary on Chronic Illness Grace Desmarais
Finalist: Conversation with my Girlfriend in the Shower, Post Diagnosis * Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth