Catfish Stew III - 2005 - Winners and Featured Authors
Listed below are the winners and authors featured in Catfish Stew, Volume III, the 2005 anthology of the South Carolina Writers Workshop.
Fiction
Best of Issue (Tie)Steve Heckman, “The Walk”
Melissa Port, “A Prop-Up Burial”
Second Place
Emily H. Avent, “Jazz Bar"
Third Place
Connie Hullander, “Lifeline"
Featured Authors - Fiction
Betty Wilson Beamguard, “Hard to Know”
Carol P. Beard, “To Keep Christmas Well”
Betty Rollins Busch, “On Second Thought”
Donna Campbell, “Old Familiar Home”
Donna Campbell, “Blood Relative”
Donna Campbell, “Gone Hunting”
Lee Cox, “Starving the Ghost”
Laurie Pfister Epps, “Marian's March”
Craig Faris, “Big Daze”
Craig Faris, “Silent Assault”
Steve Gordy, “Public Serpent”
Patricia Graney, “The Offering”
Louis N. Gruber, “The Emperor's Experiment with Democracy”
Steve Heckman, “Genghis”
Connie Hullander, “Ruff Love”
Carol Isler, “A Vague Recollection of a Conversation”
Grace W. Looper, “A Matter of Honor”
Brenda McClain, “A Prayer for a Mama and Her Boy”
Clyde E. McGoogan, “Isis and the Gnome King”
Roger D. Meadows, “Rivers Bridge”
John Migacz, “Hey Joe”
Nalley T. Osland, “Savannah's Garden”
Linda Rue Quinn, “Plagiarize This”
Charles P. Reeve, “Rest Area 1 Mile”
Charles P. Reeve, “Baking Sugar Cookies”
Wilma W. Reitz, “More Goodbyes”
Wilma W. Reitz, “Shooting Match”
Robert M. (Bob) Strother, “Rocker Mom”
David F. Westeren, “Delta”
David F. Westeren, “By Another's Leave”
Tammy Wilson, “The Parasites”
George Youngblood, “Where the Blue Dog Goes”
Nonfiction
Best of Issue
Debra Staples, “The River at Flood Stage”
Second Place
Howard A. Goodman, “My Hero”
Third Place
Jacquelyn Holmes Burnes, “Something of Arnie”
Featured Authors - Nonfiction
Phil Arnold, “Diet Red Dew”
Betty Wilson Beamguard, “Enjoying Holiday Stress”
Betty Rollins Busch, “The Forever Child”
Tom Curtis, “Suspended Disbelief”
Ruth King, “Made Crazy by Diets”
Roger D. Meadows, “Heirlooms “
Lorraine Ray, “"Dopey, “Grumpy and Phone-y”
Charles P. Reeve, “Boys Before Computers”
Patricia Webster Stewar,t Remembering the Dinner Party”
Robert M. (Bob) Strother, “Love Hurts”
Robert M. (Bob) Strother, “"Love Always, “Cecil"
Thomas E. Truitt, “Cheating”
George Youngblood, “To Whom It May Concern”
George Youngblood, “The Redhorse Sucker”
Poetry
Best of IssueKatherine S. Crawford, “Home”
Second Place (Tie)
Katherine S. Crawford, “Stone Angel in the Protestant Cemetary”
John Partin, “Pastures to Lie In”
Third Place
John Partin, “War Death”
Featured Authors - Poetry
Sheryn Billue, “Love Like Rivers”
Sheryn Billue, “Wind Rhythm”
Sheryn Billue, “The Man Who Cried I Am”
Dottie Boatwright, “My Granny Saved Her Grease”
Patricia Cairns, “Indian Summer”
Patricia Cairns, “Come Sunday Morning”
Clinton B. Campbell, “Split Pea Soup”
Kim Catanzarite, “To David, at the Accademia”
Faye Vester Dozier, “Privyleged Memories”
Cynthia Hodell, “Dyer We're Lost”
Doris J. Fields, “A Weird Sojourn”
Margaret B. Hayes, “Law Office in an Old House”
Margaret B. Hayes, “I Think Fall Came Today”
Steve Heckman, “The Only Sound”
Elsie T. Holcombe, “Stigmata”
Janet Carr Hull, “The Saving Graces”
Janet Carr Hull, “The Fire”
Sandee Mpony-McMullan, “Atara”
Sandee Mpony-McMullan, “And Should Winter Come to Africa”
Sandee Mpony-McMullan, “Coffee and Heels”
Emilie Warner Paille, “Progressions”
John Partin, “Gap Creek Church of God”
Karen M. Peluso, “Phone Call”
Bonnie Stanard, “Belief without Life”
Bonnie Stanard, “Another Man's Wife”
Bonnie Stanard, “Bunjee Jump”
Janet Swope Wade, “Shopping at the Five and Ten in 1946”
David F. Westeren, “Hit and Run on Highway One”
Play
Best of IssueBill Wellborn, “The Well"
Please note: Because of the limited number of entries and the way the scoring fell, only one play qualified for entry into this year's anthology.
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Catfish Stew, Volume III
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P.O. Box 7104
Columbia, SC 29202