| MOUNT ARROWSMITH NOVEL WRITING CONTEST - 2005 |
| FIRST HONOURABLE MENTION: JANE EMERSON (BLEWER) ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, U.S.A. FOR HER NOVEL: SIMON'S ISLAND. |
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| FIRST PRIZE - $1000 cdn: JOHN JEFFIRE, CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN, U.S.A. FOR HIS NOVEL: '67 THE JAMS RECEIVED LETTER, BIO & PHOTO FROM JOHN ON JULY 20th, 2005: John Jeffire was born in Detroit. He was formally educated at St. Lawrence University (NY), Northeastern University, and Boston University. He has taught writing and literature at Northeastern, Heidelberg College, Owens Technical College, and The University of Findlay. While at UF, he taught inmates at the Allen Correctional Institute for three years, and one of his students there won the university's annual writing award. In addition to teaching, he has also been a wrestling coach. While at Findlay, his team won the 1995 small college national championship and he was voted NAIA national collegiate wrestling coach of the year. He competed or coached in the following international exchanges: Sweden (1979, 1980, 1994, 1995), Denmark (1979), Africa (1980), Finland (1995), Soviet Union (1991), Germany (1992), Poland (1992), Sri Lanka (1993), Turkey (1995), Ukraine (1996), Belarus (2002), and Russia (2002). In 1996, he was an athlete escort in both greco-roman and freestyle wrestling at the Atlanta Olympic Games, and in 1998 he was inducted into the Hancock County (Ohio) Athletic Hall of Fame. The highlight of his athletic career occurred in 2004 when his son Jake coached him to a gold medal at the AAU Masters Grand Nationals. His essays, short stories, and poems have appeared in magazines such as Parenting, English Journal, America, Ex Libris, and South Coast Poetry Journal. His story; "The Gun Was Mi Gun;" won Whiskey Island's 1999 short fiction contest, while the story "A Rabbit" was runner-up in Current magazine's 2001 contest and "Even Angels Have Their Angels" was a finalist in the Gival Press 2004 contest. His poem "Personal Ad;" was grand prize winner in the detroiter.com's 2005 POE-try contest. During the summer of 2004 he became a Fellow of the National Writing Project. He currently teaches and coaches at Chippewa Valley High School in Clinton Township, MI, where he lives with his wife, son, daughter, and two very hyperactive Jack Russell terriers |
| SECOND PRIZE - $250 cdn: JUANITA KARPF, OBERLIN COLLEGE, OHIO, U.S.A. FOR HER NOVEL: THE OTHER SHORE RECEIVED LETTER, PHOTOS & BIO FROM NITA ON JULY 20TH 2005: Nita Karpf grew up in Rochester, New York, a couple of miles from Lake Ontario. After completing a bachelor's degree, she taught music to children of all ages in various schools and locations, including Alabama, Georgia, and her native New York state. Ten years and many moves later, she left teaching and began graduate studies at the University of Georgia where she earned a masters and doctorate in music performance and music history. She remained in Georgia for several years and taught in the University's School of Music and in the Womens Studies Program. Currently, Nita and her husband, composer Lewis Nielson, live in Oberlin, Ohio, and work at the renowned Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Nita is a member of the Dean's staff and Lewis chairs the Composition Department. Their Victorian house is a perpetual and challenging work-in-progress and occupies them during the summer when classes are not in session. They share their home with Cole, Noah, and Selah--the three gentle and graceful Greyhounds they adopted from a nearby rescue organization. Nita and Lewis passionately support the cause of retired Greyhound racers and do whatever they can to prevent cruelty and help find loving homes for dogs destined to be euthanized. Nita has many dozens of publications to her credit including poetry, non-fiction, scholarly articles, reviews, and a scholarly monograph. Recent writing awards include prizes in the International Alliance for Women in Music's Pauline Alderman Article Competition, the John Wood Community College National Creative Writing Contest, the Mississippi Poetry Society National Contest, and two Shadow Poetry competitions. "The Other Shore" is her first novel, written during a month-long residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta. She hopes to finish her second novel when she and Lewis return to Banff in January 2006 |
| THIRD PRIZE - $150 cdn : JAN RESICK & DEB GABER, BELLINGHAM, WA., U.S.A. FOR THEIR NOVEL: DYING TO GRADUATE RECEIVED LETTER, BIOS, AND PHOTO FROM JAN & DEB - JULY 18, 2005. Dying to Graduate is Deb and Jan's first novel. Both women live in the relative wilds of the Pacific Northwest with their families. They have been friends since their kids were in grade school together, and they started writing a few years ago. Everyone asks about writing as a team; the hardest part was getting to the point of criticizing something the other had written without hurting their feelings. Jan's favorite part was creating Lairmont High and getting to know the kids who go there. But Deb liked writing the scary bits! (The next one has lots of scary bits!) Out in the real world Deb is a newspaper editor with a lit/theatre background. Jan teaches gifted education, K - 8. |
| BEST PORT ALBERNI NOVEL. TRIP TO UCLUELET RETURN (OR) CASH EQUIVALENT OF $55 cdn: ALBEE HILL, PORT ALBERNI, B.C., CANADA. FOR HER NOVEL: COMPLICATIONS |
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| HONOURABLE MENTION - 2006 |
| HONOURABLE MENTION: MATTHEW BIN CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA. FOR HIS NOVEL: LMF |
| FOURTH HONOURABLE MENTION: MR. ELLIS J. CAMPBELL NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA FOR HIS NOVEL: NINE DAYS AT STARK RIDGE. |
| SECOND HONOURABLE MENTION: BARBARA BAMBERGER SCOTT DOBSON, NORTH CAROLINA, U.S.A. FOR HER NOVEL: CANTE HONDO. |
| Born and bred in Etobicoke, Ontario, Lorraine Beverley (Albee) Hill drifted across Canada during the 1990s. Attaching herself like barnacle to the coast, she now enjoys life as a journalist in downtown Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Interviewing hundreds of individuals, including Pygmy hedgehogs, miniature cattle and historian Gwyn Dyer, has led her to play with fiction rather than fact. Ms. Hill's first novel, "Complications," a murder mystery set in Tofino, British Columbia, marks her entry into the world of fabrication: "I felt badly knocking off the first murder victim," she admits, "But you quickly become accustomed to it." |
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| THIRD HONOURABLE MENTION: MS. MARCIA ZLOTNICK OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA FOR HER NOVEL: PEARLS. |
| HONOURABLE MENTION: STEVEN MAYOFF ELLERSLIE, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA. FOR HIS NOVEL: FATTED CALF BLUES |
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