After careful reading, our 2007 Judges, Clare Rossini and Keith Taylor have made their selections. It is with great pleasure we announce the winners of the Springfed Arts-Metro Detroit Writers 2007 Member Prose & Poetry Contest!

             Prose

First Place : John Jeffire   River Rouge

Second Place : Mary Minock Davy Crocket Rhodes

Third Place : Sheryl Morang Holmberg  The Lovers

Honorable Mentions:

Sharon MacDonell  News Junkie

Miriam G. Sherbin  Strange Intimacy

Poetry

First Place : Linda Nemec Foster    A Sign from God

Second Place : Terry Blackhawk   Chambered Nautilus with Tinnitus and Linden

Third Place : Christine Rhein    As If

Fourth Place : Mary Butler    Vultures

Fifth Place : Anne Doran    Mohican Lodge, November

Honorable Mentions:

K. Michelle Moran    The Darkness

Kristine Uyeda  The Woman with a Cloud in her Purse

Marc Maurus    call me firefly

N. S. Williams    Of Barnacles and Marsupium

John Jeffire   The Composition Teacher Ponders Questions Posed

by his Students at the Allen Correctional Institute

Catherine Huben   Words Like Water

Stephanie Matthews   In Search of the Positive

Mary Minock    Snapshot Found on the Street Outside the Senate Theater

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