Fall 2006
Ania Maluszek
Steve Duncan

Spring 2007
Lora Trueblood
Amanda Sebastiano
David Elliott
William Greisheimer
Courtney Keen
Sreven Duncan
Chad Griffith
Lauren Keen-Piatt
Ryan Knapp

Pentangle 2007: Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-Fiction Winners

Poetry Judge Judith Kerman

1st Place: Kimberly Schanz “Songs of Autumn”

2nd Place: Tyeisha Hilton “While Sitting Stand-By at terminal B”

3rd Place: Rae Crider “Painfully In Love”

Honorable Mention: Stacey Moss “Egg Shells”
Honorable Mention: Jessica Arrant “26th”
Honorable Mention: Morgan Zablauskas “Poison”
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Dalhover “Iceburg”
Honorable Mention: Sara Heristchi “ Gathering at Reza’s House In Rockville, MD in November 2001,” “ Lost,” “February in Florida”
Honorable Mention: Kia McDuffie “As I Enter”
Honorable Mention: Rebecca Way “A Kid at Heart”
Honorable Mention: Kimberly Schanz “Summer’s Bane”

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"Sudden fiction is a very difficult form. It's deceptively simple; two pages and you're done! Unfortunately, as many have found out, it's easy to get off on a tangent and the story is ruined by the second or third paragraph. There were many fine stories in the group I read. Kudos to everyone for attempting to create stories that reveal passion and a small part of the human soul. You should be proud of your work and I hope you continue to write stories which reveal a lot about you as well as your characters." -- Paul W. Dean, Ph.D.

Fiction Judge Paul Dean

1st Place: Scott Nguyen “Excerpt from a Dead Man”

-- "This clautrophobic tale of an apparent unrepentant murderer resonates with bathos and bravado."

2nd Place: Ginny Bacon “Einstein Said”

-- "The narrator uses humor and wit to reveal the truth of her situation; slowly the reader realizes that she speaks with a forked tongue: we hear what she wants to say, yet herf ellow workers hear and believe the polite tripe she gives them."

3rd Place: William Glennon “Aleph”

-- "This is almost a prose poem. The cascading images give pleasure to the reader and stimulate thought. "Aleph" is a most appropriate title."

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Creative Non-Fiction Judge Jeff Grieneisen

1st Place: Jessica Arrant “How to Sit”

2nd Place: Jamie Minton “To the Advocation of Motivation”

3rd Place: Joni Deckert “Three Fragments”

Honorable Mention: Benjamin Meyer “My History”
Honorable Mention: Benjamin Dictor “The Floor of my Brother’s Room”