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**IMPORTANT CHANGE **

THIS IS NOW A “FIRST BOOK” CONTEST. WINNING AUTHORS IN CATEGORIES A, B, C AND D MUST HAVE NO PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK IN THAT CATEGORY.

Schedule for 2008 Contest:

April 1, 2008: Guidelines and entry form available on web site;

May 1, 2008: Entries accepted at Council offices:

Writing Contest
Utah Arts Council
617 E. South Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102.

June 27, 2008: Postmark deadline for entries;

September 19, 2008: Winners will be announced;

October 2008: Awards ceremony for the competition will be held at the Utah Book Festival. (time & date TBA).

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Winners of the 2007 Utah Arts Council Writing Contest

NOVEL:
1st
Cara Diaconoff, Salt Lake City “A Stranger to You”
2nd
Linda C. Peer, Salt Lake City “Fire Over the Mountain”

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
1st
Douglas K. Miller, Ogden “Caught in the Shift”
2nd
Will Bagley, Salt Lake City “Always a Cowboy”
Honorable Mention
Carolyn Owen, Provo "Shlomo”

COLLECTION OF STORIES:
1st
Paul Rawlins, Salt Lake City “Dreamsicle”
2nd
Stephen Tuttle, Provo “Undone by the Moon”
Honorable Mention
Franklin Fisher, Salt Lake City “The Painter”
Honorable Mention
Jeffery Chapman, Salt Lake City “Gigantomachy”

YOUNG ADULT BOOK:
1st
Janci Patterson, Orem “Haylee’s Journal”
2nd
Kerry Spencer, West Jordan “Secrets of the Mami Wata”
HM
Carol Lynch Williams, Springville “Numbers”
HM
Sydney Salter Husseman, Layton “My Big Nose & Other Natural Disasters"

TEN POEMS:
1st
Maria Melendez, Logan “Bridge”
2nd
Lucy Fairchild, Salt Lake City “The Red Dot”
Honorable Mention
Elaine Christensen, Sandy “Praying for Roothold”

SHORT STORY:
1st
Lynn Kilpatrick, Salt Lake City “What Idaho Offers”
2nd
Stephen Tuttle, Provo “Amanuensis”
Honorable Mention
Adrian Stumpp, South Ogden “All the Variables”

ESSAY:
1st
Halina Duraj, Salt Lake City “My Boyfriend is a Fascist”
2nd
Michael Greenfield, Salt Lake City “To Sire, With Love”
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Sinor, Logan “Headwaters”

If you have any questions about Utah's annual Original Writing Competition, contact Guy Lebeda, glebeda@utah.gov, (801) 236-7553.