Heritage Writers Guild
Warm Up Contest Winners 2020
POETRY: 21 entries
1st place – Denis Feehan, The Bluest of Jays
2nd Place – Sue Leth, Denton Benson
3rd Place – Marilyn Richardson, Aquarium Illusion
Honorable mention (in no particular order)
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Marie Tollstrup, Black Swan
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Marilyn Richardson, Om Sweet Om
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Colleen Callahan, An Ode to Substitute Teaching
NON-FICTION: 11 entries
1st place — Marie Tollstrup, Stringing Beads
2nd place — Marilyn W. Richardson, Visiting the Past
3rd — Shelia Kinneer Robb, Strength for the Journey
Honorable mention (in no particular order)
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Colleen Callahan, A Court Dance
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Sue Leth, Once in a Lifetime
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Chris Jones, Winner, Ruffles and Truffles
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Marilyn W. Richardson, The Nursing Home
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Colleen Callahan, Blessed Art Thou Amongst Women
FICTION: 22 entries
1st Place – Greg Deluca, Farb
2nd Place – Krystal Anderson, City of Rocks
3rd Place – Jared Davis, The Hair and the Elastic
Honorable mention (in no particular order)
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Joe Gordon, Dr. Geffen
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Marie Tollstrup, Death on Holiday
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Shelia Kinneer Robb, Broken Eggs
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Andrew A. Christophersen, Bloodlines
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Linne Marsh, Terminus
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Elizabeth Empey, Cursed Heads
"Warm Up" Writing Contest Winners 2019
Fiction
1st: Christopher Jones Hey Soos
2nd: Christopher Jones Maybe Two
3rd: Adell Kirkman Neighborly
1st HM: Marilyn Richardson
Fanny Elssler and the New World
2nd HM: Marie Tollstrop Paris Fallout
3rd HM: Marie Tollstrop Solo Quest
Flash Fiction
1st: Marie Tollstrop
For the Good Times
2nd: Marie Tollstrop After the Fall
3rd: Denis Feehan Shelly's Dad
HM: Sue Leth
The Ballerinas
Poetry
1st: Sue Leth
Hormonal Women
2nd: Denis Feehan
Love
First Chapter
1st: Michael Banebrook Cogency
2nd: Amanda Empey Bracing the Storm
3rd: Christopher Jones All That Glitters
1st HM: Michael Banebrook
Written in Romance
2nd HM: Jelene Kirkland
My Blue Heaven