On the 2006 Volume 26 Captain Pentangle issue: "What an interesting contemporary cartoon twist on the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight hero legend--all rolled into "the pen(cil) is mightier than the sword" idea. Content is interesting. Graphics are very cool. The gold seal you have to break through gives Pentangle that very mysterious hero journey feel."

--Darlene Wedler-Johnson, Associate Dean

Pentangle 2006 Staff:

Spring 2006
Thomas Aposporos
Jared Kelly
Lacey Hurt
Wislie Gilles
Bridget Wheeler
Tanya Baird
Alisha Conrad
Mark Stonehouse

Fall 2006
Ania Maluszek
Steve Duncan

Advisors
Courtney Ruffner
Jeff Grieneisen

Consultants
Joe Loccisano, art consultant
Jeff Grieneisen

 

Fiction Contest:
Judged by Rich McKee
Writer and Professor Rich McKee is not your stereotypical college professor/university press author. Over a decade ago he resigned from a tenured teaching job in West Virginia and moved to Sarasota, Fla., to write fiction, play acoustic guitar professionally, teach English part-time, and work occasionally as a mate on a sailboat charter. His latest book titled The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology, by B.M.W. Schrapnel, Ph.D. was published by University of Alabama Press.

First Place: "Good morning, my captain" by Matt Murphy

Second Place: "72 Hours" by Camille Heistand

Third Place: "The Cotton House" by Jacob Durrance

Honorable Mentions: "Mustard Stains" by Stephen Jaquith

"Some Velvet Afternoon" by Mike Landy

 

Poetry Contest:
Judged by Pablo Medina
Cuban-born American writer PABLO MEDINA is a poet, novelist and essayist. His works include the novels The Return of Felix Nogara (Persea Books, 2000) and The Marks of Birth (1994), the poetry collections The Floating Island (1999) and Arching into the Afterlife (1991), and the essay collection Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (1990). His work has appeared in American Poetry Review and Iguana Dreams among others.

First Place: "Ten Minute Spill" by Stephanie Knox

Second Place: "Mind's Eye" by Sharon Thomas

Third Place: "Tortoise" by Jeff McDaniel

Honorable Mentions: "An Atlanta Alligator Baseball Abecedarian" by Ardith Heemskerk

"Looking for a Different Man" by Ardith Heemskerk