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Challenge

Creative Writing Awards

What is it?

Twice a year, in February and August, awards are made to WritersTalk contributors. You need take no special steps to enter this competition; if your piece in one of the designated genres is published in WritersTalk, you are a contestant in the Challenge.*

Eligible Genres

Fiction
Memoir
Article/Essay
Poetry

Judging Periods

January 16 through July 15
July 16 through January 15


Prizes
One winner will be selected from each of the eligible genres. Each winner will be awarded a cash prize of $40.

Judging
Judging will be done by WritersTalk contributing editors and other Club members whom the contributing editors may ask to assist.

* Eligibility for the WritersTalk Challenge is limited to members of the South Bay Branch of the California Writers Club; judges may not judge in any category in which they have an entry.

Winners, February 2009–August 2009

Fiction Luanne Oleas, "Why Gladys Stuben Turned to a Life of Crime"
Essay Carolyn Donnell, "Eating Weeds"
Memoir Anna M. Thumann, "That Haunting Clank in the Clink"
Poetry Victoria Ballard, "Remembering Naomi, Dead at 39"

Carolyn Donnell, Challengemistress Andrea Galvacs, Luanne Oleas