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On December 10th, 2005, Women Who Write held its Ninth Annual Poetry and Short Prose Awards Ceremony at
the Pollard Gallery, Kentucky Derby Museum, in Louisville, Kentucky.
The winners have been published in the current volume of Calliope and read excerpts
from their winning works during the ceremony.
Co-Sponsor
This publication was partly funded through a grant from the University of Louisville Women's Center, which was founded
at U of L in 1992 "to promote Women's equality, increase women's self-reliance, and highlight women's contributions to all
cultures and societies." For further information, please call (502) 852-8976 or, on the Internet browse to the University
of Louisville Women's Center.
Contest Judges
Catherine Anne Fosl, our prose judge, is an Assistant Professor of Communications and Women's and Gender
Studies at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle
for Racial Justice in the Cold War South and Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom. Her recent scholarly work has focused on collecting stories of activists from across
Kentucky.
Pamela Steel, our poetry judge, has previously published a chapbook of poems, Other Rivers, Distant
Songs (1997, Spring Tree Press) and was a Fishtrap Fellow in 1997, as well. Her poem "The Boarders" was awarded
the 2004 Kentucky Writers' Coalition's Jim Wayne Miller Poetry Prize, and she was also chosen as the winner for the coalition's
2004 chapbook contest. In addition, she was a runner-up for the William Stafford Poetry Prize in 2002 and an alternate
for a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2003. Her poem, "The Fire Bringers" received
second place for the Appalachian Writers' 2005 James Still Poetry Prize, while "Mingo County" received an honorable mention.
"The Disappeared" was a runner-up in the louder ARTS Awake at the Wheel competition. Pamela is a graduate of Spalding
University's Master of Fine Arts in Writing program and a co-founder of the InKY Poetry Reading Series. She lives on
the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Oregon.
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Women Who Write 2005 Contest Winners
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First Place Barbara Blackburn - "Shorebirds"
Second Place Ruthie N. Burden - "Jenny and Jim"
Third Place Ruth Fields Plock - "Succession"
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First Place Thelma Wyland - "The Buttoned-Down Leopard"
Second Place Jolie Mandelbaum - "The Poetry of Work"
Third Place Jo Strong - "Time in a Rum Bottle"
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