3. DAVID BATES, “Revenge Bittersweet”

4. GAIL BURWELL, “A Rose by any Other Name Would Still Have Thorns”

5. NANCY E. TRUDEL, “Yellowbird”

6. KELSEA BEST, “The Antelope”

7. BILL CARRIGAN, “A Roof Over our Heads”

8. STEPHANIE BURKHART, “Spontaneous Decision”

9. MAX NEWTON, “The Firefly Next Time”

10. K.P. ROBBINS, “Resiliency”

 

JUDGE: DEBBY MAYNE (writer, teacher and editor) has been an author of fiction and nonfiction for nearly 20 years. Upcoming book releases include Georgia Weddings in April 2009 and Love Finds You in Treasure Island, Florida, in June 2009.

NON-RHYMING POETRY
1. KATHLEEN OLIVE PALMER, “Moonflowers”
2. LEE NETZLER, “The Bear at Glenwood Springs”
3. SYBIL L. HOLLOWAY, “Snack Time”
4. NORMA J. LIPP, “Souvenir”
5. SUSAN CALDERONE, “Two Historic Houses”
6. NICHOLAS YOVANOVICH, “The Harvest Fly”
7. SACHIKO OGAWARA, “Silence”
8. SHIRLEY WINWARD, “The Ring”
9. WILLIAM B. YOUNG, “White Goddess”
10. CHRIS LORD, “Ghost on Water”

JUDGE: MIRIAM SAGAN’s newest book of poetry is Map of the Lost. She founded and runs the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College.

She has recently been a writer-in-residence at Everglades National Park, Petrified Forest National Park and The Land/An Art Site, where she has been working on poetry about ecological issues and land use.

RHYMING POETRY

1. ANNABELLE MOSELEY, “Bull-Vaulting”

2. ROBERT DASELER, “Toys on the Grass”

3. HERB WAHLSTEEN, “William Cowper and Mary Unwin, 1776”

4. MARLA ALUPOAICEI, “Constellation”

5. ROBERT DASELER, “Ton Deaf”

6. ROBERT DASELER, “Skiing the Mekong”

7. SHIRLEY WINDWARD, “Four Sonnets Concerning Eden”

8. BELLE ROLLINS, “Garden Walk Sonnet”

9. MELISSA CANNON, “Two Masks”

10. LINDA KNOWLTON APPEL, “Fade to Black”

JUDGE: JAMES CUMMINS is the author of five books of poems, most recently Then and Now and Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man, co-authored with David Lehman. He has an

MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and is the curator of the Elliston Poetry Collection at the University of Cincinnati, where he’s also an English professor.

His first book, The Whole Truth, was a sequence of sestinas, a type of troubadour, formal poem. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Maureen Bloomfield, a poet and art critic, and their two daughters.

STAGE PLAY
1. ROBERT TAYLOR, “Falling Away”
2. RON RADICE, “Won’t Happen Again”
3. S.R. ANZALONE, “Marvin’s Fetish”
4. JACOB M. APPEL, “Causa Mortis”
5. SCOTT OPENSHAW, “The Elevator”
6. JERRY MAHONEY, “(ditto)”
7. JACOB M. APPEL, “The Library of Tomorrow”
8. JENNIFER BOGUSH, “Traffic Jam”
9. BARBARA PINSOF, “Flora Toscana”
10. NICHOLAS WARDIGO, “Exit, Corpse”

JUDGE: AURY WALLINGTON is the author of The New York Times bestseller Heroes: Saving Charlie. Her TV credits include “Sex and the City” and “Veronica Mars.” Her one-woman show “Virgin of the Vieux Carre” had a sold-out run in New York in 2003. She currently has two TV pilots in development at ABC Family and the USA Network.

TELEVISION/MOVIE SCRIPT
1. CHARLES C. NWACHUKWU, “American Salesman”
2. NICOLETTE VAJTAY, “Best Christmas”
3. YAPHATHTOAR COLEBROOKE, “Untitled”
4. JAY BIEDERMAN, “South Park: Celebrititus”
5. K.C. OTENTI, “The Simpsons: NASCARgot”
6. LARRY BRENNER, “Blood Chrysalis”
7. DAVID M. THOMAS, “Homeland”
8. JAMES C. BURAU, “Ruby Cube”
9. KIM GERBER, “Entourage: Pimped”
10. CASSANDRA E.O. WINTER, “Ten Gallons”

JUDGE: CHAD GERVICH is a television producer, published author and an award-winning playwright. He created and produced the Style Network’s hit comedy/reality series

“Foody Call,” and executive produced “Celebrity Drive-By,” a talk show pilot for E! Entertainment. He has also developed and produced Internet series for Fox and Warner Bros., and he’s currently writing for “Reality Binge,” a talk/sketch show on the Fox Reality Channel.

You can read more from Gervich on Script Notes, the Writer’s Digest screenwriting blog, at blog.writersdigest.com/scriptnotes, or in Gervich’s book, Small Screen, Big Picture: A Writer’s Guide to the TV Business.