Winners of the 2007 Spirit of Writing Contest

The Grand Prize was awarded to Kathleen Morelock, Coupeville, This Old House, memoir.

Poetry

First Place: Janice O'Mahony, Langley, To the Women in My Support Group

Second Place: Erik Christensen, Coupeville, Radio

Third Place: Sheryl Clough, Clinton, Dinner at Sambuca;

Fourth Place tie: Sharon J. Nicholson, Oak Harbor, The Calling and Marilyn Brownstein, Coupeville, 10/11/01: at the Corner of High Street and Arcadia

Short Fiction

First Place: Diane Adair, Coupeville, Measure of Thanks

Second Place: Richard Bennett, Clinton, The Second Coming

Third Place: Sharon J. Nicholson, Oak Harbor, Stalag VII

Fourth Place: Barbara Aiello, Oak Harbor, The Apocalypse of August

Nonfiction

First Place: Sheryl Clough, Clinton, Muted Feast

Second Place: Barbara Sheffield, Oak Harbor, The Secret

Third Place: Mary Knight, Langley, The Bottom Line

Fourth Place: Erik Christensen, Coupeville,  A Man at His Workbench

Memoir

First Place: Kathleen Morelock, Coupeville, This Old House

Second Place: Sheryl Clough, Clinton, Mothers on Ice

Third Place: Terrence J. Kandzor, Christmas 1949

Fourth Place: Dale Ann Kerslake, Clinton, The Far Horizon

Children's Literature

First Place: Elizabeth Hubbard of Oak Harbor, Accidentally on Purpose

Second Place: Mary Knight, Langley, Horse Beautiful

Third Place: Martha Martin, Langley, Hens on Strike

Fourth Place: Heidi Hammer, Langley, The Raven Kingdom of Fernville Forest.