I’m pleased to announce that my personal essay Bombshell has been chosen as runner-up for the 2015 creative nonfiction prize in Briarpatch’s fifth annual writing contest. Thank you to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, who judged the creative nonfiction entries.
Bombshell faced some serious competition. The winning CNF entry, Living Death by Siku Allooloo, held me glued to my screen, absorbing the words. When I reached the end, I read the piece a second time.
Laurel Albina’s thought-provoking poem Energy Series: Surface Mining won the poetry category, with Phillip Dwight Morgan’s powerful piece Free Trade Agreement chosen as runner-up by poetry judge Stephen Collis.
Iryn Tushabe won the Best of Regina category for her story Gone.
Congratulations to the winners, whose pieces have been published in the March/April issue of Briarpatch, available now. I can’t wait for my copy to arrive! Congrats, too, to my fellow runner-up.
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Congratulations, Chris!
Thanks so much, D.D.! And thanks for being a steadfast reader!
Scary essay. So glad it ended the way it did!
Congratulations! That’s wonderful!
Erin, thanks! I agree, it’s wonderful!
Congratulations again! An eye-opener for me!
Thanks, Susi. It was a constant eye-opener for me at the time.
Good job Chris!
Thanks, Mary Jane!
Congratulations. A very sobering piece to read. You are so right, war never leaves a place, certainly not for very many years and generations after ceasefires. You were lucky, but I suppose we all occasionally do irrational things although we know we shouldn’t, and never know quite what drives us. One plus point of your action is that it let you write this essay to be enjoyed by others. Well done.
To be enjoyed by others or to scare others, I imagine.
Thanks, Dorothy!