Stories and essays - winners of Writers Intl Forum's competitions

Writing Competition Winners

January 2003

Stories from Around the World!
Congratulations to our many winners! It was a tough decision with so many fine stories from the U.S., Europe and New Zealand. The following are our top winners - thanks to all of you who participated!

Read Winning Stories (plus our Editor's Comments)!
Click HERE for a complete list of our published winning manuscripts from previous competitions.
Click an underlined story title below to read our top winning stories from this competition!

	1st Place Overall: Joli Allen of California	"How to Make a Stellar Friend"
	1st Place Story for Children: Bob Moseley of Connecticut	"Wendy the Warthog is Beautiful"
	2nd Place: Kenneth Boles of Washington	"PJ's Candy Caper"
	3rd Place: Donna Surgenor Reames of South Carolina	"Loving Lucy"

Runners-up - Prize winners:

Thanks to Writers' Digest Books for providing the great books on writing for these prize winners.

Author	From	For
JoAn Martin	Texas	Tall Tale Teller
Mika Hadani Melamed	New York	The Chance Encounter of Mr. McCrinkle and Ms. McFlatten
Annamaria C. Lalevee	New Jersey	Poppy

Top Honors for a Young Author

Author	From	For	Age
Britt Coello-Grundler	Spain	The Little Book	10 years old

Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical)

Author	From	For
Jennifer A. Castro	Tennessee	After School Hours
Margaret Katchur	New Zealand	Tordy Tortoise the Tortured Artist
Jerry Martin	Missouri	Rush
Jason S. Parker	Georgia	In the Park
Shauna Adams Pope	Tennessee	The Window Frame
Jennifer M. Smith	Mississippi	The Little Witches
Larry Sweitzer	Virginia	Rudy Can't Wait
Sharon Whitehall	Michigan	The Impossible Dream
Carole Wyatt	Indiana	The Other Side of the Street
Frankie Yanez	Arizona	The Man Who Could Change His Appearance

"Thank You" to Writers' Digest Books for sponsoring
the following books for our three Runners-Up Winners!

Writing & Illustrating Children's Books for Publication
by Berthe Amoss and Eric Suben
Classic book for every children's book writer!
(Compliments of Writer's Digest Books.)

Creating Fiction
Edited by Julie Checkoway
Creating Fiction is a fiction-writing course from top writing instructors. It includes 23 never-before-published essays about fiction writing--each accompanied by a few writing exercises.
(Compliments of Writer's Digest Books.)

Writer's Market FAQs
by Peter Rubie
Fast answers about getting published and the business of writing.
(Compliments of Writer's Digest Books.)

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