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Winter / Spring 2010

 

Color Impressions: Photography by Amie TannenbaumAnnouncement: Summer 2010 Awards Issue will be posted July 8th, 2010. Stay tuned! First Annual SOLSTICE CONTEST Award Winners:

FICTION/NONFICTION: Final Judge, ANDRE DUBUS III (Initial Judges, Solstice editors)

First Prize of $1,000 to Fred Setterberg, author of the story “Our Golden State.”

Runner-up: Jose Skinner, author of the story “The Edge.”

Finalists: Sara Flood, “The Hiding Place;” Lisa Friedlander, “Remains from the Winking Place;” Karima Grant, “Kings;” Sybil Wilen, “The Dead Garden.”

Honorable Mention from Solstice editors: N. Ayres, “The Tomato Farm;” Michael Miner, “Ice;” and Jean Trounstine, nonfiction, “Meeting Karter.”

POETRY: Final Judge: TERRANCE HAYES (Initial Judge, Solstice poetry editor)

Winner: Emily Van Duyne, for three poems.

First runner-up: Andrea Walls for “3rd House Down From the Corner Behind the Red Door.”

Second runner-up: Leslea Newman for “Poem for Two Dogs Hanged in Salem, l692.”

Honorable Mention from Solstice editors: Melanie Drane for “Year of the Snake” and “The Knifemaker.”

Many CONGRATULATIONS to the winners who will appear in our special 2010 awards issue by July 8, along with other submissions. And many THANKS to all who submitted to the contest. We hope you will submit again in the future. Do check out our terrific present Winter/Spring Issue posted now!

Lee Hope, executive editor

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes

  • Winter/Spring 2010 Editor’s Note
    by Lee Hope

Fiction

  • The Tomato Farm
    by N. J. Ayers
  • Alien Hand
    by Grace Talusan
  • Decker
    by James Sprouse
  • Street Theatre
    by Louis Panagotopulos
  • Pomegranate
    by Helen Elaine Lee

Nonfiction

  • Moon Water
    by Damien Echols
  • Claiming Kin
    by Gerald Duff
  • The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
    by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Photography

  • Color Impressions
    by Amie Tannenbaum

Poetry

  • Thinking of the Anhinga
    by Helena Minton
  • Playing Games
    by Helena Minton
  • Devotion: Hawk
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • Through Birds, Through Fire But Not Through Glass
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • Radium City
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • Coping Strategies at Sasakawa Restaurant
    by Laban Hill
  • Mowing with Cutlasses
    by Laban Hill
  • At the Window
    by Betsy Sholl
  • Elegy with Sacred Heart
    by Betsy Sholl
  • Notes from the Night Shift
    by Theodore Deppe
  • Vertigo & Adagio
    by Theodore Deppe
  • Smoke Break
    by Sandi Johnson
  • On Sex and Insects
    by Ben Berman
  • The Unseasoned
    by Ben Berman
  • Hard Work
    by Kathleen Aguero


Contributors

avatar for Amie TannenbaumAmie Tannenbaum
avatar for Ben BermanBen Berman
avatar for Betsy ShollBetsy Sholl
avatar for Damien EcholsDamien Echols
avatar for Dennis HinrichsenDennis Hinrichsen
avatar for Gerald DuffGerald Duff
avatar for Grace TalusanGrace Talusan
avatar for Helen Elaine LeeHelen Elaine Lee
avatar for Helena MintonHelena Minton
avatar for James SprouseJames Sprouse
avatar for Kathleen AgueroKathleen Aguero
avatar for Laban HillLaban Hill
avatar for Louis PanagotopulosLouis Panagotopulos
avatar for Marie Myung-Ok LeeMarie Myung-Ok Lee
avatar for N. J. AyersN. J. Ayers
avatar for Sandi JohnsonSandi Johnson
avatar for Theodore DeppeTheodore Deppe

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