1999 "Let's Write" Literary Contest Winners

ADULT FICTION

1st: AYLEENE THOMPSON, Copper Pennies & Sunny Dew Cola 
2nd: ROBERTA GRAHAM POWAISKI, Take Out 
3rd: NANCY BEELER, The Rooster 
HM: NANCY BEELER, Long Ago and Far Away 
ADULT NONFICTION
1st: GEORGIA YOST, From the Outside Looking In 
2nd: BEULAH CAREY, Cherished Memories of the Good Old Days 
ADULT POETRY
1st: CARRIE HODGES, What Mid Life Really Means (see her poem below) 
2nd: EVELYN J SMITH, Strive for Success 
3rd: JOHN FREEMAN, An Abandoned House in an Overgrown Field 
HM: BRENT NICK, Lights Out 
YOUNG WRITERS FICTION
1st: JENNIFER WALDROP, Gift of the Sea 
2nd: CECILY A CUMMINGS, Dagmar, I'll See You Soon 
3rd: SARAH BOOKER, If He Had Wings 
HM: MIKE MANNING, Southern California Days 
YOUNG WRITERS POETRY
1st: MAGGIE HARMANSKI, Pet Peeve (see her poem below) 
2nd: CECILY A CUMMINGS, Journey of the Way-Faring Soul 
3rd: JENNIFER WALDROP, Memories 
HM: GARRETT RYLE, Friends 

 
First Place, 
Young Writers Poetry 

Pet Peeve 
By Maggie Harmanski 

My hair is like a child 
whose age is nine. 
I just can't get, 
this stuff to mind. 
I've tried mousse, 
I've tried gel 
Nothing works!!! 
Can't you tell? 
Just like a lizard, 
whose colors change. 
Looking in the mirror, 
It's never the same. 
I'd shave my head 
... but what for? 
As fast as time, 
I'd have twice more. 
My hair is a time bomb, 
waiting to explode. 

What can I do?? 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 		  

First Place, 
Adult Poetry

What Mid Life Really Means 
By Carrie Hodges 

I heard Roy Rogers died today 
my first hero 
my larger-than-life man and his horse. 
I see myself at three 
guns and holsters on 
red hat, fringed red vest, and cowboy boots 
Trigger's mane twined in my hand, 
the smell of dust and the road in my mouth 
gallooping galloping away away 
to shoot the villain and win the day. 
I must have rocked a million miles. 
Always I was Roy 
never Dale, 
knowing even then who got top billing. 
Sometimes 
when I rode my stick horse 
I was Roy and Trigger, 
a simple turn of mind then 
to be two things at once-- 
a rhetorical question I couldn't know to ask. 
The world seemed safe 
knowing Roy was there 
(even after Trigger passed on to glory). 
Somehow 
somehow I thought Roy could stay, 
captured in time as well as celluloid, 
my hero 
smiling singing victorious. 

Happy trails, Roy 

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