Winning writers announced
Winners in the 2010 Writing Contest of the Seacoast Writers Association were announced
at the recent SWA Spring Writers Conference at the McConnell Center, Dover. First,
second, and third place winners received checks for $100, $75, and $50, and first place
winners read their winning entries.
In Poetry, the winners were, first place, Amy Dengler, Gloucester, Mass.; second, Nancy
Wheaton, Portsmouth; and third, Frederick Chormann, Concord. Honorable Mentions
were Meg Petersen, Plymouth; Emma Duffy-Comparone, Portsmouth; and Roger Finch,
Cape Neddick, Maine. The poetry judge was Kimberly Cloutier Green of Kittery Point,
Maine, a workshop and retreat presenter and author of a poetry chapbook,
“What Becomes of Words.”
In Fiction, the winners were, first place, Michael Wade, Stratham; second place, Patricia
Salome, Portsmouth; and third place, John Bubar, Durham. The Honorable Mention
winner was Noreen Hyde, Durham. The fiction judge was Cynthia Neale, Hampstead,
author of two young adult novels, “The Irish Dresser” and “Hope in New York City,”
and a frequent presenter at Irish cultural events.
In the Personal Essay, the winners were, first place, Clare Moore, York, Maine;
second place, Sue Quinlan, Newmarket; and third place, Linda Argenti, Nashua.
Honorable Mentions were Mary Ann Hendry, Hampton; Heather Seeley, Brentwood;
and Taylor Filiaut, Hampton. The non-fiction judge was Dean Merchant, Stratham, a
free-lance author who writes on local history and archeology for area publications.
The winning entries will be published in “Currents VII,” the Seacoast Writers anthology
of contest winners. Guidelines and entry forms for the 2011 contest will be available at
the fall, 2010, SWA writers conference and on this website at that time.