1999 Denny Plattner Awards


Poetry

First Prize: Trains Passing, by Jerry L. Clark (Winter).

Second Prize: Soudan Mine, by Nancy Sather (Summer).

Third Prize: Snow, by David Alan Payne (Fall).

Honorable Mention: The Evening is Now, by Silas Dwane House (Winter), Mountaintop Removal, by Steve Rhodes (Winter).

Short Fiction

First Prize: Cassie Faye, by Garry Barker (Winter).

Second Prize: Jesus Loves Me, by Jim Frisby (Spring).

Third Prize: Buy Skinny, Sell Fat, by Ralph Price (Fall).

Honorable Mention: She Was My Momma, and I Loved Her, by Lainie West (Summer), Beneath the Cleansing Flood, by William E. Ellis (Winter).

Non-Fiction Prose

First Prize: These Old Hills, by Tony Smith (Summer).

Second Prize: Stories Told Around the Quilting Fire, by Jamie Griggs Tevis (Fall).

Third Prize: When the World Was Flat, by G.C. Compton (Fall).

 

Judges

  • Terry Engle teaches writing at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
  • Melanie Hendricks is a Henfield Transatlantic Award winner and has published stories in numerous journals.
  • Jean-Marc Sens is an established poet who teaches at the University of Mississippi at Oxford.

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