Wyoming Arts Council

Wyoming Writers, Inc., announces awards


Award winners were announced today at the 34th annual Wyoming Writers, Inc., conference in Casper.

At the conference luncheon, results were announced for the fiction writing contest:
First Place: Tom Bass, Budapest, Hungary, and Torrington, Wyo., for “Live the Legend,” an excerpt from a novel, “Pleasure and Progress.”
Second Place: Tom Bass, “Raskalnikov’s American Dream,” an excerpt from an adaptation of “Crime and Punishment” for the 125th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s death.
Third Place: Gretchen Dawn Yost, Philipsburg, Mont., “Pumpkin Carving.”
Honorable mentions: Jerry Sanders, Rawlins, “Cat’s Cradle;” and Mary Beth Baptiste, Laramie, “Yellow-Haired Boys Scaling Lemon Trees.”

Results for the free-verse poetry contest:
First Place: Robert E. Druchniak, Evanston, “My Wife Bird Watching.”
Second Place: Cameron Byrne, Riverton, “a strong desire for something filling.”
Third Place: Cameron Byrne, “We Are What We Piece Together.”
Honorable Mentions: Pat Frolander, Sundance, “Prairie Reclamation;” “Robert E. Druchniak, “Walking to Work;” Cameron Byrne, “Moment;” Aaron E. Holst, Sheridan, “First Day of Autumn;” A. Rose Hill, Sheridan, “Chemo;” and Cameron Byrne, “Near the Oyster Beds at Marennes.”

Results for the traditional poetry category:
First Place: Shelagh Wulff-Wisdom, Douglas, “Giving Wishes.”
Second Place: Fred Savage, Rawlins, “Bronco Fred.”
Third Place: Shelagh Wulff-Wisdom, “Fences.”


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