AND THE WINNERS ARE...

The winner of the fourth biennial X. J. Kennedy Award for Creative Nonfiction

  • with its $1000 prize is Elizabeth Bernays for her poetic and sensitive memoir

“Flying With Lepidoptera.”

Runnersup receiving $100 prizes include:

  • Lucy DuPertius for “Stone Money Won’t Buy You a Beer”

 

  • Freema Gottlieb for “The Visitor”

 

  • Phaedra Greenwood for “You Can’t Possibly”

 

  • Amy Jenkins for “Close to Home”

The names of the winners, the judge’s comments on these marvelous pieces, and the winning pieces themselves will be published in the August issue of ROSEBUD, #39. The judges, Roderick Clark and Robert Wake, once again found themselves deeply impressed and somewhat overwhelmed by the mass of fine writing submitted. “I feel honored to have been access to the vital life experiences of so many remarkable people from the U.S. and around the world,” Rosebud Editor and Publisher Clark observes. “I feel as though hundreds of people had invited me to share some of the most profound and intimate moments of their lives. I am impressed by their talent and courage, and feel privileged and somewhat awed to have had their work pass through my hands.” The deadline for the next Kennedy award is December 31st, 2008.
 

ronellis@hughes.net 04/17/08