1st Place

Current Events by Eric E. Wallace, Eagle, ID

What Eric won:
$300 Cash Prize
Publication of winning story on the WritersWeekly.com website
1 – Freelance Income Kit Includes:
— 1-year subscription to the Write Markets Report
— How to Write, Publish and $ell Ebooks
— How to Publish a Profitable Emag
— How to Be a Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Special (includes the book; database of 6000+ newspapers; and database of 100+ syndicates)

2nd Place

Time Passages by Maryann Strickland, Prospect, KY

What Maryann won:
$250 Cash Prize
Publication of winning story on the WritersWeekly.com website
1 – Freelance Income Kit Includes:
— 1-year subscription to the Write Markets Report
— How to Write, Publish and $ell Ebooks
— How to Publish a Profitable Emag
— How to Be a Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Special (includes the book; database of 6000+ newspapers; and database of 100+ syndicates)

3rd Place

Joyous Departure by Jim Lambert, Carbondale, IL

What Jim won:
$200 Cash Prize
Publication of winning story on the WritersWeekly.com website
1 – Freelance Income Kit Includes:
— 1-year subscription to the Write Markets Report
— How to Write, Publish and $ell Ebooks
— How to Publish a Profitable Emag
— How to Be a Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Special (includes the book; database of 6000+ newspapers; and database of 100+ syndicates)

23 – Honorable Mentions (In no particular order):

Flat Stanley Redux by Lori Mitchell, Fresno, CA
Estate Sale by Stephanie DeVries, Vernon, NY
Days End by William Naze, Hudson, MA
Dancing in the Rain by Cassandra Gosselin, Menard, ON, Canada
The Tempest Has A Name by Todd M. Parisi, Maple Shade, NJ
Message in a Bottle by Jim Driesen, Ocean Shores, WA
The Dead Letters by Dina A. Leacock, Medford, NJ
Love, Kara by Rachel Heim, Laurel, MD
Do What You Have To Do by Sam Conley, Beaverton, OR
Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be by Ann-Louise Truschel, Buckeye, AZ
She Be Walkin’ Yet by Michelle Rice Greener, Asheville, NC
A Safe Haven by Malia Letourneau, Rumford, ME
Condemning Correspondence by Janelle McHugh, Palatine, IL
The Lonely Pen by Wayne Alden IV, Norwood, MA
The Two Madonnas of Positano by Eileen Arthurs, Pittsburgh, PA
A Cottage by the Sea by Danielle Grandi, Richardsville, VA
The Logistics by Brandon Mead, Winter Park, FL
No by Carol Young, Amherst, MA
Addressee Unknown, Moved No Forwarding Address by R L Simpson, Cape May Court House, NJ
The Letter by Phil Terrana, Virginia Beach, VA
An Act of Love From Alex by Deborah Jones, Deltona, FL
Obsession by Deborah Dionne, Framingham, MA
The Island of Warr by Stephanie Phoebus, Beltsville, MD

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15 – One year subscription to The Write Markets Report

Dennis Klotz, Dearborn Heights, MI
Robin Park, Mission Viejo, CA
Taryn Della, Halifax, NS, Canada
John Helmon, Kirkland, WA
Nicolas Hoover, Seattle, WA
Marianne Dayton, Royal Oak, MI
Marianne Royston, Virginia Beach, VA
Kamala Platt, San Antonio, TX
Norm Burke-Yale, Independence, MO
Krisan Murphy, Newport, NC
Carol Tillyer, Doncaster, East Vic, Australia
Sue Henninger, Trumansburg, NY
Kerry A Hartjen, Friday Harbor, WA
J.L. Hohler III, Kalamazoo, MI
Luis Carlos Perez, Weatherford, TX

5 – Book Proposals That Worked: Real Book Proposals That Landed $10-$100K Publishing Contracts

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Alison Cox, Durham, NC
Jennifer Hand, Tuscumbia AL
Michael Leath, Carrollton, TX
Johnny Blackchurch, Detroit, MI

7 – Query Letters That Worked

Bess Lewis, Greensboro, NC
Andrea R. Cooper, Humble, TX
Aubrey Scheffey, Chicago, IL
Edith Knehans, Northglenn, CO
Junege Hong, Scarsdale, NY
Renee’ La Viness, Broken Arrow, OK
E M McIntyre, Magalia, CA

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Stephanie Cunningham, New Rochelle, NY
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Samia Bouzid, Levittown, PA
Holly A. Hartranft, Fort Irwin, CA
Julie Nash, Weston, ID
Ashley Shepard, San Francisco, CA
Dorothy Vazzana, Lansdowne, VA
Leslie Bicknell, Eugene, OR
G.J. Hurtubise, Kingston, ON, Canada
Diane Marie Perrine , Dunnellon, FL
Karen R Samford, Frisco, TX
Cathy Vonderau, Pittsburgh, PA
Marci Mangham, Dallas, TX
Linda Cook, Fortuna, CA
Sai Kalvapalle, Waterloo, ON, Canada
M. Julie Pierce, Burnsville, MN
Christine Zaccagnini, Rye, NY
Tanya Daene, West Point, NE
Martie Gigantone, Morganville, NJ
Donna Simonds, Lakewood, NM
Roelien Reinders, Amsterdam, NZ, Netherlands
Minden Pettengill, Bullhead City, AZ
Julie Matherly, Tallahassee, FL
Brenda Granger, Walnut Creek, CA
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