2006 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Winners
Novel: Judged by Bret Lott
WINNER: Intercession by Susan Schoenberger of West Hartford, CT
Susan Schoenberger has been a journalist since 1984 at various newspapers, including The Baltimore Sun and The Hartford Courant, where she now works as a part-time copy editor. Her articles and essays have appeared in many publications, most recently in the CourantÕs Sunday magazine. Her short stories have appeared in Inkwell and the Village Rambler. Her winning manuscript, Intercession, is her first novel. Susan lives in West Hartford, CT, with her husband and three children.
FIRST RUNNER-UP: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up by Jacob Appel, New York, NY
SECOND RUNNER-UP: Cracks By Dedra Johnson, New Orleans, LA
FINALISTS:
Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence by David Ho Levinson, New York, NY
Levitations by Jere Hoar, Oxford, MS
Shady by Carlos Cunha,Hartford, CT
The Annotated Guide to Health and Beauty by Lisa Annelouise Rentz, Beaufort, SC
SHORT LIST FOR FINALISTS:
Courting Jane by Jennifer Veser, Dunedin, FL
Girl in the White Raincoat by Eugene Mora,Westbury, NY
Hibiscus Airport by Girija Tropp, Crodon, Victoria, Australia
House Concert by T. M. McNally, Scottsdale, AZ
Isabella's Journal by Gregory Bascom, Miami, FL
Little Iotas of Love by Scott D. Yarbrough, Mt. Pleasant, SC
Operating Within the Shadows by J. A. Markey, Lakeland, FL
Rebecca Farrar in White by Lev Olsen, New York, NY
Snapdragon Nightmares by James Donaldson, Summerville, SC
Stealing Wigs by Bevely Blasingame, Ocean Springs, MS
The Final Effort of the Archer by Michael Pritchett, Overland Park, KS
The Housekeeper by Jennifer Vacchiano, Arvada, CO
The House of Flowers by Ethel Morgan Smith, Morgantown, WV
The Lost Children of the Tabernacle by Doug Crandell, Marietta, GA
The Message Stick by Laine Cunningham, Hillsborough, NC
The Tattered Garter by Roz Unruh, Hockessin, DE
War Songs by Billy O'Callaghan, Douglas, County Cork, Ireland
Watching Walter Cronkite by Austin Ken Kutscher, Flemington, NJ
Zinzi by Phyllis MacBryde, New York, NY
SEMI-FINALISTS:
A Dream City is Risen by Brendan Short, Austin, TX
Anima by Neal Abbott, Las Vegas, NM
Apostle Walk: The Second Coming of Age by Curtis DeVedrine, New Orleans, LA
Ball and Chain by Eloise Holland, New Orleans, LA
Because Quicksand Is What It Is by Nicole Walker, Salt Lake City, UT
Beyond Belief by Therese Fowler, Raleigh, NC
Broad Street Lawyer by Stephen F. DeAntonio, Charleston, SC
Buried Alive by John J. Welch, Rutland, VT
Diner Rules by Jeniel Vereline, Laramie, WY
Earth to Kate Vespucci by Ingrid Lombardo, Monterrey, CA
Echoes of the Risen by Kaye Park Hinckley, Dothan, AL
Here Gods Lived by Helen Archeris, Newark, NJ
Heroes of the Halcyon Days by Karen Kasaba, Santa Barbara, CA
Hotwire by David Zimmerman, Ames, IA
Irina's Eye by H. W. Freedman,Castiglione del Lago, Italy
Master Plan by Marilyn Moriarity, Roanoke, VA
Morning in Havanna by John Foster, Baton Rouge, LA
Mother's Revenge by Jeffrey L. Tuller, Homestead, FL
My Nobody, My Love by Winnie Gonzalez, Houston, TX
Nightmare Or The Modern Romantics by Jacqueline M. Lyon, Cincinnati, OH
Occitania by Paul Byall, Savannah, GA
Queen of Hearts by William Coles, Chapel Hill, NC
Scarlet & Melanie by Joan Frank, Santa Clara, CA
Skinner Lake by Sarah Van Arsdale, New York, NY
Sweet Opium by Rosary O'Neill, New York, NY
The Answer by Jane Paull, San Jose, CA
The Apocrypha of Nod: Aristotle's Wall by Matthew Minson, Houston,TX
The Autobiography of Aiken by David Axe, Columbia, SC
The Hibiscus Airport by Girija Tropp, Croyden, Victoria, Australia
The Jazz Garden by Edwin Greer, New York, NY
The Taletellers by Peter Caputo, Boston, MA
This is It by Guy E. Owen, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
The Scales of Ethics by Bill Lundy, Sedona, AZ
Unfinished Business by Anne Converse Willkomm, Waxhaw, NC
Visible Signs by Grace Marcus, Doylestown, PA
Novella: Judged by Moira Crone
WINNER: Anthony Ryan's Aztec Century by Miriam Frendo of Dublin Ireland
Miriam Frendo born in Malta into a rather cosmopolitan family, no two members of which ever seemed to have the same passport. Ms. Frendo, however, has lived in Ireland all of her life. She studied law and languages and now works primarily as a translator. Her previous writing experience has been for the theatre. Her interests are literature, language(s), film and travel. She live by the sea in North County Dublin with " a lovable canine tyrant."
FIRST RUNNER-UP: Bed for Sale by Carlos Cunha, Hartford, CT
SECOND RUNNER-UP: Skywriting by Andrew Malan Milward, Iowa City, IA
THIRD RUNNER-UP: Tell Me This Isn't Clint
FINALISTS:
Balancing Against the Wind
Cooper's War by Timothy Jay Smith, Paris, France
Derrick Quinn by Joseph Pagano, Jr., Westfield, NJ
Lesson for This Summer by Sarah Van Arsdale, New York, NY
Quiet Desperation by Rodney Nelsestuen, Woodbury, MN
Why I Love Trinity Win by Jesus H. Christ, Xavier McCaffrey, Chicago, IL
SEMI-FINALISTS:
A Friend of the Family by Kate Betterton, Chapel Hill, NC
An Age of Marvels and Wonders by Perry Glaser, Haverhill, MA
Badlands by Cynthia Reeves, Wayne, PA
Between by Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Chicago, IL
Cast Down From Heaven by Patricia Madere Bercier, Lake Charles, LA
Come to Me by Michael Pritchett, Overland Park, KS
Concord, VA by Peter Neofotis, Buena Vista, VA
Cooper's War by Timothy J. Smith, Paris, France
Fireworks by William Reese Hamilton, Estada Aragua, Venezuela
Golden Calf by Charles Holdefer, Poitiers, France
It's Always Ourselves We Find in the Water by Kris Saknussemm, Castlemain, Victoria, Australia
Naked and Famous by Elizabeth Cantanese, Columbia, SC
No Turning Back by Randall Lavender, Los Angeles, CA
Of Love's Memory by Obert Fittje, Tallahassee, FL
Pamina by Emily Winslow, Cambridge, England
Sylvie by Emily Meier, St. Paul, MN
Skimmers by Matthew Franks, North Little Rock, AR
The Burning of Lawrence by Andrew Malan Milward, Iowa City, IA
The Note by Stian Rice, South Euclid, OH
The Switch by Deborah Firmin, Ferriday, LA
Zig Zag Love by Latha Viswanathan, Houston, TX
Novel-in-Progress: Judged by Michael Malone
WINNER: Sweet Magnolia Root by Jamey Maria Hatley of Baton Rouge, LA
Jamey Maria Hatley is an urban conjure woman descended from a long line of Mississippi conjurers and storytellers. A native of Memphis, TN, Ms. Hatley is a writer, artist, journalist, and letter writer. Born and raised in the Delta and inspired by the rich landscape of her birthplace, Ms. Hatley writes to weave a quilt of personal family history, black history, myth and magic. Ms. Hatley is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She studied with Percival Everett at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and Victor LaValle at the Voices of Our Nation Workshop. She is at work on her first novel.
EQUAL RUNNERS-UP:
Recipes for the Rapture by Bonnie West, St. Paul, MN
The Angels of Haphaza by George Bishop, Jr., Andhra Pradesh, India
The Grinding Season by Natalie Bazile, San Francisco, CA
FINALISTS:
A Knock at the Door by Madeline Hansen Brown, Shippensburg, PA
All Irreconcilable Things by Andrea Malin, Los Angeles, CA
A Thousand Suppers by Randy Susan Meyers, Boston, MA
Benjamin Stone by D. M. Gordon, Leeds, MA
Echoes of Love and War by Joyce Miller, Cincinnati, OH
Evie & Bedford by Rita Welty Bourke, Nashville, TN
Flesh and Stardust by Shlomzion Kenan, Tel-Aviv, Israel
How to Talk to the Devil by Elizabeth Catanese, Columbia, SC
Killer of Toads by Paul Tolliver Brown, Columbia, SC
Like Radiance by Jessica Brown, White Plains, NY
Never Played With by Tom Bligh, Tallahassee, FL
The Madman Theory by Harvey Simon, Washington, DC
The Perfect Journey by George Wen, New York, NY
The Shakespeare Papers by Mark Wiederanders, Carmichael, CA
The Sun Cut Flat by Carolann Malley, Granby, MA
Welcome to My Lucky Life by Geoff Schutt, Asheville, NC
White Shadows, Black Dreams by Justin Swingle, Beverly Hills, CA
SEMI-FINALISTS:
An American Year by Sally Green, Boulder, CO
An Invincible Summer by Mal King, Santa Paula, CA
A Time of Reckoning by Patrick Farrell, Bellevue, WA
Doc Butterfly by Debra Lew Harder, Gladwyne, PA
Finding Moses by Jennifer Veser, Dunedin, FL
Firefly Lane by Karen Hunt, Woodland Hills, CA
Just One of Those Things by Claire Applewhite, St. Louis, MO
Kyle Lan: The Rise and Fall of a CEO by Ania Savage, Littleton, CO
Letting Go by Tatjana Soli, Tustin, CA
Life Plus by Anne Funderburg, Mandeville, LA
Litany by Mary Travers, Seattle, WA
Moving From Mimosa by Valerie Winn, Gautier, MS
No Extraordinary Means by Shari Stauch, Summerville, SC
Rue New Orleans by Mary Arno, Clarence Center, NY
Say Goodbye to the Age of Reason by Franny Key, McLean, VA
Seasons Between Heaven and Earth by Sharon Kurtzman, Raleigh, NC
Sonny and the Santa Fe Chief by David A. Wright, Columbia, SC
Spectral Voyages by Agata Izabela Brewer
Surviving Clown Therapy by Wendy Langford, Bristow, VA
The Cooperative Husband by Gwen Florio, Helena, MT
The Glamour by Erica Obey, New York, NY
The Park by Julie Giese, New York, NY
The Jewels of Lake Kivu by Naomi Benaron, Tucson, AZ
The Madman Theory by Harvey Simon, Washington, DC
The Perfect Journey by George Wen, New York, NY
Under The Acacias by Andrea K. Sigler Castro, Seattle, WA
Waiting in Vain by Mishelle Shepard, Abbeville, LA
What Is Is by James R. Manton, Mesquite,TX
When St. Valentine's Babies Cry by Mry Eileen Cronin, Arlington, VA
Willie June by Brenda McClain, Edisto Island, SC
Short Story: Judged by Tom Franklin
WINNER: A Fork in the Road by Mary R. Arno, Clarence Center, NY
Mary R. Arno, formerly a reporter and editor at The Los Angeles Times, The Times-Picayune, and The Orlando Sentinel, is now a freelance writer and editor working on her first novel. A New Orleans native, she is married and has four children. She and her family live on a farm in upstate New York.
EQUAL RUNNERS-UP:
A Chocorua Funeral by Joe Ricker, Oxford, MS
My Father's Friends by Jackie Shannon-Hollis, Aloha, OR
Sanctuary by Joan Corwin, Evanston, IL
FINALISTS:
A Model Forest by Amanda Briggs
Beads by Joyce Miller, Cincinnati, OH
Captain Withers Wife by William Coles, Chapel Hill, NC
Chinese on the Beach by Vanessa Fabiano, Copenhagen, Denmark
Frame 36 by Michael Conn, Santa Fe, NM
Guam, 1988 by Kathleen T. Jabs, Virginia Beach, VA
Hardrock Miner by Julie Stern, Topanga, CA
In Exile by Billy O'Callaghan, Douglas, Cork, Ireland
St. Luis of Palmyra by Barbara Johnson, New Orleans, LA
Road to Somewhere Else by Twister Marquiss, San Marcos, TX
Scars of Imagination by Elsie Michie, Baton Rouge, LA
Slide by Laura Gibson,
The Art of Desire by Maureen Sherbondy, Raleigh, NC
The Work of Hunters is Another Thing by D. M. Gordon, Leeds, MA
Wisdom of the Accidental by Carlos Cunha, Hartford, CT
FINALISTS:
All the Human Trouble by Shannon Cain, Tucson, AZ
Are You Decent by August Tarrier, Philadelphia, PA
A Thousand Ways to Do It by Sarah S. Doyle, Santa Fe, NM
By Any Other Name by Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Captain Withers Wife by William Coles, Chapel Hill, NC
Carl by Rodney Nelsestuen, Woodbury, MN
Eat! by Patricia Brieschke, Waccabuk, NY
Fragile White by Joyce Miller, Cincinnati, OH
Frontlets by Milly Heller, New Orleans, LA
Imperfections by Hillary Plum, Northhampton, MA
It's a Jungle in Here by Andrea Malin, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed Prayers by Randy Susan Meyers, Boston, MA
Mordecai's Apprentice by Ken Ross, Cherokee, IA
Once Upon a Time in New Orleans by Joyce Blaylock, Nashville, TN
Rear View by Joan Frank, Santa Rosa, CA
The Secret by Michael Compagnoli, Rockland, ME
The Story Teller by Iain S. Baird, New Orleans, LA
The Yard Man by Dawn Ruth, New Orleans, LA
Watching for Amish by Mary F. Potter, San Francisco, CA
Who Stand and Wait by Kim Weland, New Orleans, LA
You're in My Yard Now by Bobby Damon, Matthew Minson, M.D., Baltimore, MD
Essay: Judged by Jack Davis
WINNER: Along the Wire by Ashley Rouen of Metairie, LA
Ashley Rouen was born and raised in New Orleans. Her parents are Rip and Debbie Rouen. She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart for 15 years and was graduated in 2005. She is currently in her second year at the University of Georgia and majoring in English. This summer Ashley worked in Washington D.C. as an intern for Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. She hopes to continue to strengthen her writing throughout the rest of her college career.
FIRST RUNNER-UP: The Language of Loss by Ellis Anderson, Bay St. Louis, MS
SECOND RUNNER-UP: Phoning Home by Jacob Appel, New York, NY
THIRD RUNNER-UP: Surfside Casino: Walking the Dog by Ruth Moon Kempher, St. Augustine, FL
FINALISTS:
Deposing the King by David Shields, Seattle, WA
Equilibrium by Gary Wallace, Powell, WY
HKC is a Pretty Good School by Gary Wallace, Powell, WY
Jordan The Dog by Joyce Blaylock, Nashville, TN
Love, Faith, Hope, Charity and Among the Ruins by Bill Roussarie, Marietta, GA
Nurses Crazy by Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Prison Refor, Georgia Style (1886-1887): One Couple's Crusade by Louise Staman, Macon, GA
Surprise Shot by Mindy Greenstein, New York, NY
The Crooked Track by Jane Satterfield, Baltimore, MD
SEMI-FINALISTS:
Alone, Betsy MacKay by Fairport, NY
Goodbye, Grandma by Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Looking for Some Action by Jane Satterfield, Baltimore, MD
The Agony of Deceit by Kerrie Houston Reightley, Bainbridge Island, WA
Timor Eyes by Karen Coates, Brookfield, IL
Tipsy Wizard by Gary Wallace, Powell, WY
Water Marked by Karel Sloane, Evacuated to Memphis, TN
When Mom Becomes a Three-Syllable Word by Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Poetry: Judged by Laura Mullen
WINNER: Invisible by Mary Ann O'Gorman of Ocean Springs, MSMary Ann OÕGorman has lived in Ocean Springs,MS for 14 years, having lived in the Midwest, the Northeast, and Italy before moving to the South. She currently teaches at University of Southern Mississippi, and has taught high school and college classes for almost 20 years. In 2005, she was a Writer-in-Residence for the Mississippi Arts Commission, and through this program taught in the Jackson County prison system. Her poems have been published in Desire Sreet and The Magnolia Quarterly.
FIRST RUNNER-UP: Kildeer, etc. by N. Colwell Snell, Salt Lake City, UT
SECOND RUNNER-UP: Buzzards of Time by Susan Terris of San Francisco, CA
FINALISTS:
Ancient Chants by Helen Archeris, Newark, NJ
August by Margaret Sharp, Pine, CO
Bach by D. M. Gordon, Leeds, MA
Encounter by Emily Tuszynska, Fairfax, VA
Fate by Diana "Kat" Clark, Houston, TX
Feast by Andrew Clark, Milwaukee, WI
How the Rain Must Feel by L. Edwin Greer, New York, NY
Kiss by Michael Christopher, Berecz, Arlington, VA
Kissing William Faulkner by Maureen Sherbondy, Raleigh, NC
Leaves in the Wind by Lauren Elizabeth Pacenta, Lewisburg, PA
Ode Champagne by Joachim Zemmour, Res St. Jean, Bordeaux, France
Poe in Storyland by Pat Kogos, St. Louis, MO
Rewriting Ithaca by Kiki Denis, New York, NY
The City of New Orleans January, 2006, Joyce Blaylock, Nashville, TN
The Missing Song by Manfred Pollard, New Orleans, LA
The Swans Pass by Christine Pontecorvo, Lawrenceville, NY
Twig by Julia Stockton, Bynum, NC
Waiting for Rescue by Maureen Sherbondy, Raleigh, NC
SEMI-FINALISTS:
Eve of Destruction by Bobbi Dykema Katsanis, Berkeley, CA
In the Sewer of the South by Susan Terris, San Francisco, CA
Letter to a Friend by Maureen Sherbondy, Raleigh, NC
Life is Gone by Camille Lombardi-Olive, Lewisburg, PA
Lifeless Stones by Joseph H. Gorman, III, Philadelphia, PA
My Five Breasts by Louise Staman, Macon, GA
My Melancholy Muse by Bill Berry, Richmond, VA
A Saraband with Alfredo de Palchi by Ned Condini, Etowah, NC
Savoring by Mary Ann O'Gorman, Ocean Springs, MS
Stars by R. D. Tyler, Santa Monica, CA
The Quick and the Dead by Brian Etta, New York, NY
The Shadow of an Icicle by Gail Waldstein, Denver, CO
The Swimming Hole by Sharon T. DiLorenzo, Clifton Park, NY
Two Angels by Zachariah Kamla, Havre, MT
Vienna, 1965 by N. Colwell Snell, Salt Lake City, UT
Your Shadow by Pat Gallant, New York, NY
High School Short Story: Judged by Tony Dunbar
WINNER: Blue by Amy Levenhagen of West Allis, WI
Amy Levenhagen grew up in West Allis, WI, a suberb of Milwaukee, with her parents Mary and Chris, her brother Connor, and the family cats, dogs, fish, and their pet rat. She has been "blessed with an oversized extended family and wonderful friends, one of whom inspired" her winning short story Blue. She attended Mary, Queen of Heaven. Grade School and Catholic Memorial High School. She was a member of the Milwaukee ChildrenÕs Choir. Amy is currently studying at Bard College in New York and continues to write, sing and "shamelessly read Bukowski."
FIRST RUNNER-UP: Freedom Lake by Elizabeth Maria Pzybylski Deatrick, Ann Arbor, MI
SECOND RUNNER-UP: The Farm William Barrett Clark, Mobile, AL
FINALISTS:
Burnt and Undercooked by Bri McDowell, Idyllwild, CA
Heart of Stone by Chistine Pontecoro, Lawrenceville, NY
Hopfurt Street by Carey Powers, Idyllwild, CA
Just Let the Sun Go Down on Me by Tim Applewhite, St. Louis, MO
Maison de Soul
Penance by Laura Ruffino, Idyllwild, CA
Silence in Southern California by Meredith Mantik, Idyllwild, CA
Skits On New Orleans by Jeremy Buras, New Orleans, LA
Slaves of the Wind by Christine Pontecorvo, Lawrenceville, NJ
The Countdown by Madison Clark, Montgomery, AL
The Water Rock by William Barrett Clark, Mobile, AL
SEMI-FINALISTS:
Brothers, Bluegrass and that Big Fat Blue Sky by Leah C. Knopf, Seattle, WA
Hitler and the Betty Page Lunchbox by Marlo Barrerg, Idyllwild, CA
Janis by Kathryn LLewellyn, Westport, CT
Letting Her Hair Down by Johnna Dominguez
Myriad by Carly Weil, New York, NY
Pacific Village by Laurel Fischer, Idyllwild, CA
Six Wings and a Black Bowler Hat by William Barrett Clark, Mobile, AL
The Honorable Anecedotes of My Childhood Sweetheart by Whitney Janis, New York, NY
What is Love? by Christine Pontecorvo, Lawrenceville, NJ
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