2020 William Faulkner Literary Competition Winners
Short Story:
1st “Piano Solo”
Rhiannon Lewis
Abergavenny, Wales
2nd “The Woman Child”
Khanh Ha
Silver Springs, Maryland
3rd “The Other Woman”
Tristan Marajh
Toronto, Canada
One Act Play:
1st “A Train to Laugh”
Mitchell P. Ganem
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
2nd “A Shared View”
Mary Caroline Rogers
Tucson, Arizona
3rd “Nothing New Under the Sun”
John Doble
New York, New York
Honorable Mention “Kissing Jennifer in the Moonlight”
Peter Hardy
Atlanta, Georgia
Honorable Mention “Ducks on a Junebug”
Dennis Moore
Bothell, Washington
Poetry:
1st “More Distinct than Olympus”
George Drew
Poestenkill, New York
2nd “Blur”
Katherine Vandermel
Closter, New Jersey
3rd “Reminiscense”
Kate Stukenborg
Memphis, Tennessee
Honorable Mention “In My Dreams, the Heedless Cattle”
Rachel K. Embry
Iuka, Mississippi
Honorable Mention “Motherland”
Dot Courson
Pontotoc, Mississippi
Novel:
1st Where is the Glory: The Cader Daniel Mitchell Story
Neil Mitchell
Provo, Utah
Honorable Mention Crossing the Same Sea
Helen Montague Foster
Richmond, Virginia
Student Short Story:
1st “Of the Wolf’s Party”
Madeline Tressie Bonds
Tupelo, Mississippi
2nd “Layers of Uncertainty”
Callie Matthews
Meridian, Mississippi
3rd “Sunday Mornings”
Stephyne Weathersby
Byram, Mississippi