Paradise Review: A Literary Anthology

Paradise Review: A Literary Anthology

Every year the Creative Writing Program of Paradise Valley Community College sponsors a literary contest in which student-writers submit original work to judges of PVCC Creative Writing Competition. Student-writers may enter one piece in each of the following genres: poetry, short shorty, creative non-fiction, one-act play and (the best of) journalism. There are cash awards for first, second, third and honorable mention categories.

However there is only one award for journalism . Winners of the PVCC Creative writing contest will be published in the Paradise Review, the student literary anthology. The competition Judges may also select "Writings of Merit" that will be published in the Paradise Review . The "Writings of Merit" have no cash awards.

This year PVCC Creative Writing Competition Winners are:

Creative Non-Fiction:

First Place
Joe Daigneault
The Life

Second Place
Sandra Hoopes
Daughter of an Alcoholic

Third Place
Rose Fields
Tse’yi Canyon with Slick Walls

Honorable Mention
Diana Koontz
Por Amor de la Nina

Creative Non-Fiction, Essays of Merit

Frances Weidner
Touching the Core

Ben Moreno
Silent Movie

2007 Award in Journalism

Janice Semmel
“New SIS Perpares To Go Live in October 2007"

One-Act Play:

Barbara Sheerin
The Golden Apple-Bar and Grill

Second Place
Zona Lawrence
At Last–Friends

Third Place
Rachel Zappia
Guitar Rebel

Poetry:

First Place
Diana Koontz
I Had Never Slept With a Bayonet Under My Pillow

Second Place
Irene Harkelroad
Travel Plans for the Afterlife

Third Place
Derik Roof
Landscape

Honorable Mention
Tifarah O’Neill
In Spaces Where Time Has Left the Rest for Slaughter

Poems of Merit

Cailin Carey
Alcoholic’s Relapse

Ben Moreno
Morning Glory

Frances Weidner
Sipping Darjeeling

Short Story:

First Place
Rose Fields
Boarding School, 1946-1950

Second Place
Joseph Daigneault
Tequila and Magic in the Mexican Garden

Third Place
Stephanie Sparer
Vacant

Honorable Mention
Frances Weidner
Hot Time in the Cold War

Short Stories of Merit

Zona Lawrence
A Folktale for Children and Monkeys

Anastasia Grace
Alethea Illuminated

Barbara Sheerin
In the Big Blue Semi