Seacoast Writers Association

Home
About Us
SWA Writers Conf. 2009
Writers Contest
2009 Contest Winners
SWA Membership Applicatio
Writers Groups
Contact Us
Site Map
The Write Sites
SWA Newsletter
Events for writers
Currents Anthology
2009 SWA Writers Contest Winners - Congratulations! So many great entries.
Currents VI - Prize winning work anthology for 2006, 2007 and 2008 now available! See index at left. 



The Seacoast Writers Association has announced the winners of the SWA 2009 Writers Contest. 

 

For Poetry, first and third place was awarded to Wendy Galgan of Brooklyn, NY; second. Jean Doran or New London, NH; Honorable mentions to Charlotte Cox, Laconia, NH.

 

For Fiction, the first place winner was Thomas Griffin, Portsmouth, NH; second, Nancy Antonietti, Salem, NH; and third, Virginia DeLuca, Durham, NH.

Honorable Mentions to Frederick Pettigrew of Nottingham, NH and Mary Quale-Long of Rye, NH. 

 

For Non-Fiction: Personal Essay, the first place winner was Catherine Schillinger of Sanbornville, NH; Jennifer Decker of Rochester, NH was awarded Second Place; Norman Phillips, Exeter, NH won Third Place. Carol Goff of Derry NH and Jean Lecher of Garden Grove, CA were Honorable Mentions in the Personal Essay Category

 

2009 SWA Writers 19th annual Contest - 
 Poetry Winner - First Place
 Wendy Galgan, Brooklyn, NY

 

"YOU ARE TRAPPED IN THAT BRIGHT MOMENT WHERE YOU LEARNED YOUR DOOM"*

    • Samuel R. Delany, The Fall of the Towers

This morning, six fighter planes

flew over our barn, following

the roof line straight across the island

and on to Brunswick Naval Air Station.

Long before they appeared

– low, loud, swift against high azure

their rush and rumble announced them.

 

I stopped, standing between

my husband and my father,

and held my hand to my eyes,

searching the skies for whatever

made the air around me

and the earth beneath me thrum.

 

And, for a moment,

we were no longer nearly

three years and nearly

four hundred miles away

from that high blue September morning.