ADELAIDE LITERARY AWARD 2020 WINNERS
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The Fourth Annual Adelaide Literary Award Contest 2020 ended, and the results were announced on January 31.
As many of you already know, there are several well-developed and tested methods in judging literary contests submissions, that help us apply numerical values to often abstract criteria for evaluation of literary excellence. By giving numerical values from 1 to 10 or more to author´s creativity, premise or idea behind the written work, presentation (spelling, punctuation, grammar, and usage), structure, style and tone, theme, characters & dialogue, or in the case of poetry to additional elements like poetic devices, rhyme and/or rhythm, comprehension and coherence, word selection, and universality of the message, we arrange judged literary works in accordance to accumulated points (to a maximum of 100) and those with the highest number of points are winners.
In the case of our literary competition in three categories – best poem, best short story, and best essay, after two rounds of readings, we ended up with the final 65 poems, 82 short stories, and 50 essays, each with the number of points of 90 and over. So much for having an easy job of choosing the winner.
We congratulate to all Winners, Shortlist Winner Nominees, and Finalists on their achievement.
Adelaide Literary Award Anthology 2020 will be released on February 27 with works of all 188 Finalists in four volumes with over 1600 pages in total of brilliant writings (Poetry, Essays, Short Stories I, and Short Stories II).
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Many thanks to all participants in our Literary Contest and for the support of the Adelaide Literary Magazine and Adelaide Literary Award 2020.
The following is the list of the Winners, Shortlist Winner Nominees, and Finalists in all three categories:
SHORT STORIES
The Winner:
THE OPTIMIST by Joram Piatigorsky
Shortlist Winner Nominees:
APPALACHIAN CURSES by Brooke Reynolds
SWEAT by Jonathan Maniscalco
GRANDPA by Douglas Walrath
STRUGGLE BUS by Steven Lebow
RUN, DON’T WALK by Monika R. Martyn
MOLDING by Jessamyn Violet
THE DAY OF THE JAGUAR by W. Royce Adams
A MOMENT IN TIME by Taylor Boughnou
A SECRET FOR UNCLE TEDDY by Edith Tarbescu
CELEBRATION by Magdalena Blazevic
HUNTER’S CABIN by Donny Barilla
Finalists:
Melody Sinclair
Viswanath Gurram
Steven Markusen
Robert Kelsoe
Brandy McKay
Leandro Almeida
Bil Johnson
Laura Dunn
Joanna Kadish
Tom Carter
M.F. Robinson
Michael Warren
Read Trammel
Kipp Van Camp
Roger McKnight
Julian Darragjati
Christopher Johnson
John Riebow
Robert Gamer
Ted Morrissey
Ron Singer
Ross Goldstein
Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz
Gregory St. Thomasino
Donna Lee Miele
Jack Coey
Martin Golan
Andrea Lorenzo
Phoenix DeSimone
Wayne Hall
Blake Rose
Parker Sterni
David Macpherson
Aaron Israel
Darrell Case
Edward Hunt
Paul Perilli
Tara Marta
Christine Hand
David Rich
Fleury Sommers
Robert Perron
Dan Carpenter
Ernesto Gomez
Maria Tsirona
Holley Hyler
Tony Whedon
Richard Rose
Erma Odrach
Bonita LeFlore
Ciaran McLarnon
Giusi Rotondo
Mehreen Ahmed
Boris Kokotov
John Weil
Gerald Winter
Jim Zinaman
Mark Massaro
Ray Tatten
Adelaide B. Shaw
George Held
Leah Holbrook Sackett
Heather Whited
Brian Feller
A.I. Fabler
Susan Pollet
Mike Cohen
ESSAYS
The Winner:
SINGING OUT LOUD by Ronda Beaman
Shortlist Winner Nominees:
DEEP DIVE by Susan Bloch
LEFT BEHIND by Kim Akhtar
HOW TO MARRY THE PERFECT MAN by Beth Mead
THE PORTRAIT OF A YELLOW BUTTERFLY by Marianne Song
A MURKY FUTURE by Jennifer Nelson
CHILDHOOD, INTERRUPTED by Aysel K. Basci
MORAL ARCHEOLOGY by Jeff Loeb
WHITEBOARDS AND COURAGE by Beth Burgmeyer
FOOLISH MORTAL Kevin Drzakowski
MY PLACE UNDER THE SUN by Jahnavi Misra
THE CORONA FRIENDSHIP TRILOGY by Sara Gelbard
Finalists:
Terry Engel
Ellen Birrell
Daniel Bailey
Mary Daurio
Deborah Paes de Barros
Jason James
Rafiki Chemari
Steven McBrearty
Megan Madramootoo
Wally Swist
Lisa Lebduska
Stephen Moore
Susan M. Davis
Steve Sherwood
John Bonanni
Pam Munter
Edward Reilly
Daniel Ruefman
Allen Long
Janel Brubaker
Sara Wetmore
Linda Murphy Marshall
Donald Secreast
Patrick Hahn
Broome Cole
POETRY
The Winner:
THE HARE by Lowell Jaeger
Shortlist Winner Nominees:
ANTHEM by Catherine Rohsner
SEMI by James Croal Jackson
PLAGUE 2020 by Andre DeCuir
NOT A COOKIE-CUTTER GREEK GODDESS by Jan Little
A BIRD ABOVE NEW YORK CITY by David Dephy
A POEM FOR A PALESTINIAN POET by Lali Tsipi Michaeli
CLOCKWORK ON AVOCADO STREET by Anahit Petrosyan
WHEN I LIVED ON ARCH STREET by Monique German
CONRAD HILTON by Richard Weaver
WING by Melissa Chappell
HOMESCAPE by Nathanael O'Reilly
Finalists:
Donny Barilla
Terry Scott Boykie
S.J. Stephens
Sonali Chaprana
Helen Hagemann
Deji Ayoade
Daniel Cureton
Joseph Reilly
Kathryn Merriam
Mohamed Mahou
Martin Altman
Aracelly Campo
Alex Hand
Peter Freeman
Carol Lynn Grellas
Laura Foley
Jeton Kelmendi
Valerie Angel
Frederick Pollack
Craig Kennedy
Zia Marshall
Bob Kirkley
Anannya Uberoi
Sophie Chen
Roseangelina Baptista
Abby Ripley
George Gad Economou
William Welch
Kimberly Crocker
Ernest DeZolt
PC Scheponik
Megha Sood
Taylor Boughnou
Leslie Howard
Clara Leo
José Recio
Chani Zwibel
Lazaro Perez
RC deWinter
Robert Knox
Ambrose Gibbs
Ann Christine Tabaka
BellaBianca Lynn
Korkut Onaran
Lazar Sarna
Andrea Cladis Hodge
Timothy Robbins
Rebekah Coxwell
Edward Bonner
Louis Gallo
Daniel King
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