CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW's Annual Literary Contests

John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize

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Winners & Finalists

Year	Author	Title
2011 Winner	Erika Giles	"Flight from Hungary"
2011 Finalist	Jessica Hendry Nelson	"Another Day at the Beach"
2011 Finalist	Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo	"The Beginning"
2010 Winner	Barrie Jean Borich	"On a Clear Day, Catalina"
2010 Finalist	Jacob M. Appel	"Opting Out"
2010 Finalist	Brian M. Biggs	"Lessons from Vietnam
2009 Winner	J.A. Bernstein	"The Missing"
2009 Finalist	Elizabeth Enslin	"Ama"
2009 Finalist	G.E. Henderson	"Falling"

2008 Winner	C.T. Lawrence	"Cabbage"
2008 Finalist	Deb Everson Borofka	"Remembrance"
2008 Finalist	Anna Kushner	"Cementerios"

2007 Winner	Aria Minu-Sepehr	"My Own Revolution"
2007 Finalist	Laura Distelheim	"On Losing America"
2007 Finalist	Maureen Stanton	"The Cat Is a Haunt"

2006 Winner	Susan Sterling	"Radiation Blooms"
2006 Finalist	Erica Bleeg	"Stop"
2006 Finalist	Nate Lowe	"Handing It Down"

2005 Winner	Michelle Morano	"Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood"
2005 Finalist	Margaret Collins	"Purple"
2005 Finalist	Laura Distelheim	"For My Sister, Who Has Learned How to See in the Dark"

2004 - Crab Orchard Review's publication schedule is revised. No contests this year.		2004 - Crab Orchard Review begins the Richard Peterson Poetry Prize the following year.

2003 Winner	Debra Marquart	"Pilgrim Soul"
2003 Finalist	Betty A. Christiansen	"Good Friday"
2003 Finalist	Holly Leigh	"On Other Shores"

2002 Winner	Ned Balbo	"Walt Whitman's Finches: of discretion and disclosure in autobiography and adoption"
2002 Finalist	BK Loren	"The Road to Buffalo Bill's Grave"
2002 Finalist	Angela R. Morales	"Exhuming Abuelita"

2001 Winner	Faith Adiele	"Passing through Bandit Territory"
2001 Finalist	Marci Brown	"Things to Do"
2001 Finalist	Lee Zacharias	"The Village Idiot"

2000 Winner	Jane Satterfield	"Motherland"
2000 Finalist	Mimi Schwartz	"Under the Sun Block"
2000 Finalist	Bill Smoot	"Raking the Ashes"
2000 Finalist	Kwanlam Wong	"Tenderly"
2000 Finalist	Jackie Zakrewsky	"Coal Country"

1999 Winner	Rigoberto González	"Our Secret Other Worlds"
1999 Finalist	Sheryl St. Germain	"Eye of the Storm"
1999 Finalist	Faith Adiele	"The Master of the House"
1999 Finalist	Faith Adiele	"Transmigration"

1998 Winner	Ginny MacKenzie	"Games of Chance"
1999 Finalist	Judith Barrington	"Señor Serra's Romance: A Memoir"
1999 Finalist	Earl S. Braggs	"A Lesson in Love"
1999 Finalist	S.L. Wisenberg	"Flying"

1997 Winner	Holly Iglesias	"Companion Pieces"
1997 Finalist	Jessica Jordan Nudel	"Following Caroline"
1997 Finalist	Helen Ruggieri	"The Ghost in the Machine"
1997 Finalist	Andrea Simon	"Dead End to Flatbush"

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