2007 Jack London Writers Conference

2007 Writers Contest Winners

Two writing contests were offered for the 2007 Jack London Writers Conference. The Jack London Writers Contest, sponsored by SF/Peninsula Writers honored Short Story, Nonfiction, and Poetry writing. The Charles and Lois Cook Writing Prize, sponsored by KOMENAR Publishing awarded prizes for Novel excerpts.

And the winners were...

2007 Jack London Writers Contest

For Poetry:

1st Place: Karen Church-Terhune $100
2nd Place: Michael Cooper $ 50
3rd Place: Robert J. Miller $ 25

For Non Fiction:

1st Place: Kara Jane Rollins $100
2nd Place: Jing Li $ 50
3rd Place: Anny Cleven $ 25

For Short Story;

1st Place: Jocelyn Paige Kelly $100
2nd Place: Toni Martin $ 50
3rd Place: Suzanna Quintana $ 25

The Charles and Lois Cook Writing Prize

First Prize $250: Sempervirens by Theresa Donovan Brown

Runners-Up $125 each:

Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Vanitha Sankaran

Paper Daughter by Emily Jiang

Special Honorable Mention: Punta de Sangre by Theresa Donovan Brown

Honorable Mention:

Tears and Trombones by Nanci Lee Woody

The Dolphin Experiment by Helen Bonner

Still Life with Castro by Deanna McCusker

Apple Pots and Funeral Plots by Peggy Dulle

The Siren Dialogues by Lisa Meltzer Penn

The Straits of Taiwan by Forest Rouse