Books on the Bosque Writing Contest Winners

POSTED: Sunday, October 29, 2023

Congratulations to all award winners in our  2nd Annual Writing Contest and many thanks to award sponsors First Security State Bank, Douglass Ford, and Roland & Joyce Jones, who each contributed $1,000 for cash prizes.  We also want to thank Dr. Richard Rankin Russell and Matt Turnbull from Baylor and Dr. Moumin Quazi, Jeri Martin, and Dr. Jacob Brewer from Tarleton State for serving as judges in this year’s contest.

Best of the West Award
“Tess Clarion: Redwing, 1888”
by Katharyn Howd Machan
ITHACA, NY
$1,000 Prize sponsored by Roland & Joyce Jones

Category Awards Sponsored by
First Security State Bank & Douglass Ford

SHORT STORY

1st Place
“Please”
by Laura Ruth Loomis
Pittsburg, CA
$300 Prize

2nd Place
“Good Neighbors”
by Callum Schlumpf
Clifton, TX
$200 Prize

3rd Place
“When the hammer falls”
by Keith Goedecke
Clifton, TX
$100 Prize

Honorable Mention
“Telling Whitetail Tales”
by E. Brett Voss
Clifton, TX

POETRY

1st Place
“Tess Clarion: Redwing, 1888”
by Katharyn Howd Machan
ITHACA, NY
$300 Prize

2nd Place
“In the Desert”
by Candace Smith Ingram
Clifton, TX
$200 Prize

3rd Place
“Fall in Circles”
by Linda Fyke
Clifton, TX
$100 Prize

Honorable Mention
“Yearning to Breathe Free”
by Kathryn Jones
Walnut Springs, TX

ESSAY

1st Place
“To My Dad”
by Randall Madden
Sparta, TN
$300 Prize

2nd Place
“The Shelter of Place”
by Kathryn Jones
Walnut Springs, TX
$200 Prize

3rd Place
“In the Room”
by Theo Boyd
Whitney, TX
$100 Prize

Honorable Mention
“Baby; Both Plural and Singular”
by Candace Smith Ingram
Clifton, TX
Prize

HIGH SCHOOL PROSE AWARD
“Beyond the Myth”
by Johanna Freiss
CLIFTON, TX
$100 Prize

HIGH SCHOOL POETRY AWARD
“Song of the Eclipse”
by William Goolsby
CLIFTON, TX
$100 Prize

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