2011 Writing Contest Winners

2011 TMW Writing Contest Winners

Student Competition

PROSE				POETRY
	1^st	Alysse Riggs for “Forgiven" (Oak Ridge HS)			1^st	Kyle Poteet for “The Rising Sunset” (Oak Ridge HS)
	2^nd	Travis J. Labossiere-Hickman for “Scourge of the Mediterranean” (Brush Creek, TN home school)			2^nd	Kurt Smith for “Crashing Down” (Oak Ridge HS)
	3^rd	Chelsea Sue Conley for “The Story That Was Never Told” (Roane County HS)			3^rd	Kayla Sweet Gonzales for “The Soundtrack of My Life” (Oak Ridge HS)

Adult Competition

PATRICIA BOATNER FICTION AWARD				JOY MARGRAVE NONFICTION AWARD
	1^st	Luther Kirk for “The Bastard Child of My Oldest Sister Vivian” (Pulaski, TN)			1^st	Allen Russell for “Mule and the Razor-strop” (Hartford, KY)
	2^nd	Denton Loving for “Fiddlers” (Speedwell, TN)			2^nd	Jennie Ivey for “Scooter Chicks Rule” (Cookeville, TN)
	3^rd	Jacob P. Cline, III for “The Mine” (Middlesboro, KY)			3^rd	Ralph Bowden for “First Boat” (Cookeville, TN)

POETRY				WRITING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
	1^st	Denton Loving for “Your Very Flesh” (Speedwell, TN)			1^st	Randi Lynn Mrvos for "Maggie and the Third Grade Blues" (Lexington, KY)
	2^nd	Gretchen McCroskey for “Camouflage” (Bristol, TN)			2^nd	Marian Lewis for "Miss Bo Likes to Go" (Owens Crossroads, AL)
	3^rd	None araded.			3^rd	Linda Hudson Hoagland for “I Dare You” (North Tazewell, VA)

INSPIRATIONAL				SUE ELLEN HUDSON EXCELLENCE IN WRITING AWARD
	1^st	Jennie Ivey for “A Mother Who Read to Me” (Cookeville, TN)			Jennie Ivey for “A Mother Who Read to Me” (Cookeville, TN)
	2^nd	Karen Hebert for “I Miss You on Sunday ” (Oak Ridge, TN)
	3^rd	Susan Ray for “It's Not Much” (Cookeville, TN)