2011 Annual Contest, Delaware Beach Life and Rehoboth Beach Writer’s Guild

Thank you for entering the contest. As always we enjoyed reading all the work sent to us and count ourselves lucky to live in a place where so many people are thinking and writing creatively. We are very proud of the first place winners that will appear in Delaware Beach Life’s April issue and are thrilled as well with the writing from our second and third place winners that will appear on our website. Please know that whether you are an “official” winner or not, you are always welcome to participate in Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild events and readings—even if you are not a member. Our stories matter, in whatever form they take: published or not, poetry or prose, written in a notebook or on a laptop.
--Maribeth Fischer

Winners

Fiction: Judged by Marisa de los Santos, author of Love Walked In, and Falling Together   

• First Place: “Two Hundred Ways to Call Something Beautiful” by Lauren Fasnacht of  Hershey, PA
• Second Place: “Columbus Day” by RBWG member, Sarah Barnett, of Rehoboth Beach, DE
• Third Place: “Storms of Time” by RBWG member, Bruce Krug, of Lewes DE

Poetry: Judged by Jeanne Murray Walker, author of New Tracks, Night Falling

• First Place: “Rehoboth Beach, August 6” by RBWG member Liz Dolan of Rehoboth Beach, DE
• Second Place: “The January Beach” by Tina Raye Dayton of Salisbury, MD
• Third Place: “Fleeting” by Patricia L. Goodman of Wilmington, DE

Nonfiction: Judged by  McKay Jenkins, author of  What’s Gotten Into Us

• First Place: “Getting My Feet Wet” by RBWG member, Lisa Graff, of Lewes, DE

* Our judge declined to choose a second and third place in this category

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