Catfish Stew I - 2003 - Winners and Featured Authors

Listed below are the winners and authors featured in Catfish Stew, Volume I, the 2003 anthology of the South Carolina Writers Workshop.
 

Fiction

Second Place
"The Truth about Tooth Fairies" - Steve Vassey

Third Place
"The Need to Fall Apart" - Berry Beamguard

Featured Authors
"Quitters" - Betty Almond
"My Shining Eyes" - Betty Beamguard
"Bemused" - Leland Beaudrot
"Casing" - Betty Busch
"The Good One" - Nuke DeLoach
"Freddy Is Missing" - Art Dexter
"Cinders in the Attic" - Craig Faris
"August Moon" - Sue Heiney
"Convergence" - Millard Howington
"Justifiable Homicide" - Grace Looper
"Aftermath" - Grace Looper
"The Worrier" - Virginia Loring
"Willie June" - Brenda McClain
"The Gift" - John Migacz
"Chance Meetings" - Sue Minix
"Arriving" - C. Nyman
"Packing Heat" - Cathy Perkins
"Selling Knives" - Melissa Port
"Reality Check" - Freddie Silva, Jr.
"Tom and the Killer Icicle" - Patricia Stewart
"Witness to a Murder" - Faye Tollison
"Judas’ Lament" - Steve Vassey
"Napoleon’s Retreat" - Arch Wakefield
 

Essay

Best of Issue
"One Man’s Weeds" - Shari Stauch

Second Place
"Billion Baby Midwife" - Tom Curtis

Third Place
"Writing Basics: Don’t Send Your Manuscript into the World Without Them" - Susan Renault

Featured Authors
"Observations through the Smoke of a Burning Flag" - Phil Arnold
"Bo and the Basketball" - Phil Arnold
"Succession" - Russ Burns
"Forewarned" - Russ Burns
"Sharecroppers and Mud Pies" - Faye Dozier
"Oyster Stew Christmas" - Faye Dozier
"The Manicure" - Linda Elmore
"Reading Aloud" - Maureen Griffin
"Fix ‘Em While They’re Hot" - Elsie Holcombe
"How I Learned to Dance" - Millard Howington
"Two Stories of September" - Susan Renault
"Snakes" - George Youngblood
"Waiting for the Butter to Come" - George Youngblood
 

Poetry

Best of Issue
"Cities" - John Farewell

Second Place
"Lake Flower" - John Farewell

Third Place
"Harsh Words for a Rebellious Brain" - Janet Wade

Featured Authors
"Paul Potti" - David Axe
"My Children are Coming Today" - Betty Busch
"Life Goes On" - Betty Busch
"And the Old Woman Danced" - Faye Dozier
"While Refusing to Support the War" - John Farewell
"Trying to Figure It Out" - Doris Fields
"Rose Petals" - Maureen Griffin
"Winfred’s Tale" - Larry Hamilton
"Serendipity" - Margaret Hayes
"Jack-O-Lantern" - Margaret Hayes
"Numbers" - Elsie Holcombe
"Wings" - Millard Howington
"December Twenty-Seven" - Bill Huggins
"Your Autobiography" - Bill Huggins
"Sonya" - Kami Kinard
"In Memoriam" - Jean McKinney
"Nine Hours Away" - Daine Norris
"My Mother’s Mittens" - Susan Renault
"Cotton" - Steve Vassey
"Brainspeak" - Janet Wade
"A Gardenia for Mother" - Janet Wade
"It Was the End of the Year" - Donna Wylie

Plays

Best of Issue
"Broken Anvil" - Craig Faris

Second Place
"Final Arrangements" - Laura Pfizenmayer

Third Place
"The Coffee Club" - Barbie Cooper
"Eight Days" - Woody Needham