Winners of the 2008 Spirit of Writing Contest

A Grand Prize winner be announced December 17^th and will be awarded a full scholarship to the 2009 Whidbey Island Writer's Conference.

Poetry

First Place: Sheryl Clough, Clinton for her poem, Upon Hearing that the Last Native Eyak Speaker Has Died

Second Place: Diane Adair, Coupeville, Waiting

Third Place tie: Jerry Mercer, Greenbank, The Edge of the Okefenokeeand Sharon J. Nicholson, Oak Harbor, Montana Girl

Fourth Place: Luanne Raavel, Coupeville, Beautifully Broken

Short Fiction

First Place: Paul Michel, Langley, For Love or Money

Second Place: Susan Jensen, Clinton, The Method

Third Place: Jerry Mercer, Greenbank, Maxine’s Tale

Fourth Place: Spencer Schankel, Langley, Rubin

Nonfiction

First Place: Luanne Raavel, Coupeville, None for Me, Thanks

Second Place: Sandra McGillivray Ortgies, Coupeville, The Hackberry Tree

Third Place: Janis Schulte, Greenbank, Boiled Bee and Perfect Potatoes

Fourth Place: Pat Brunjes, Clinton, The New Year’s Drunch

Memoir

First Place: Sheri Mar Carlberg, Langley, Brucie

Second Place: Martha Martin, Langley, The Great Flight

Third Place: Diane Adair, Coupeville, Confessions of a Crazed Caretaker

Fourth Place: Allan Ament, Tiptoe Through the Juleps

Humor

First Place: Jerry Mercer, Greenbank, The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Gardening

Second Place: Sharon L. Collver, Clinton, Before You Leave

Third Place: Rick Lawler, Oak Haror, The Book Club I Didn’t Join, and Why

Children's Literature

First Place tie: Jerry Mercer of Greenbank, The People in the Trees and Sharon J. Nicholson, Oak Harbor, Coyote who Steals Lilacs

Second Place: Diane Adair, Coupeville, The Soldier and the Angel-Fish

Third Place: Julie A. McCoy, Oak Harbor, The Magic Quilt