Poetry
First Prize: Guvas Coomer Solicits Furioso in Tramp Ms., by Albert Stewart (Spring).
Second Prize: Going Home--The Road to Paint Lick, by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt (Fall).
Third Prize: Buddha, by Tina Rae Collins (Fall).
Honorable Mention: Gore Hotel, by Hood Frazier (Summer); Passage, by Albert Stewart (Spring); Flood Time Festival, by Noel Smith (Spring); and Innocents Lost, by Rusty Freeman.
Short Fiction
First Prize: When TV Came to Punkin River, by Bo Ball (Fall).
Second Prize: The Lunch Box, by Chris Woods (Spring).
Third Prize: Snails, by Jay Solka (Summer).
Honorable Mention: Uncle Pete's Shoulder, by Aaron Gwyn (Winter); The Sitting Up, by Donna Morgan (Fall); Humble Lessons, by Bruce Greene (Fall); When You're A Kid, Everybody Wants Something, by Christina Adams (Summer).
Non-Fiction Prose
First Prize: A Level Place in Up-Hill Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman, by Jane Eblen Keller (Summer).
Second Prize: The Miltonic Meadow: Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Paradise Lost, by Greg Neikirk (Summer).
Third Prize: Borderlands, Homelands and Flatlands, by Steven Salaita (Winter).
Honorable Mention: Long Live the Appalachian Funeral, by G.C. Compton (Winter); The Givens Home Place: The Fate of a Mountain Farm, by Fred Carlisle (Fall); Ballad Form and Catholic Chastity in Elizabeth Madox Roberts's Black is My True Love's Hair by John P. Langan (Summer).
Judges
- Amanda DeWees recieved her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. She has won numerous prizes for her fiction writing and is a full-time copy editor in Athens, Georgia.
- Tracy Heinlein teaches English at North Seattle Community College, in Washington, and serves as advisor to the campus literary and art magazine, the Licton Springs Review
- Andy Plattner is an editor and professional writer residing in Athens, Georgia.