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Voices of Alaskans: Winners of the 2013 UAA/ADN Creative Writing Contest
Winners in this year' s statewide Creative Writing Contest came from a wide range of Alaska towns, backgrounds and ages. Here they are.
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2013 Creative Writing Contest: List of Winners
Winners and honorable mention entries in the 2013 Creative Writing Contest, sponsored by the Anchorage Daily News, University of Alaska Anchorage and the Alaska Center for the Book.
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Editor's Choice and First Place, Poetry, Grade 10-12 : That Mountain Village
Mother -- long ago you awoke on the golden corn husk matete that you called your bed; curled on the dirt floor inside that callous stick house.
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Grand Prize and First Place, Nonfiction, Open to the Public : The Island (excerpt)
The Island was never mine -- leased but not possessed. The only proprietary interest that mattered belonged to the River. Cartographers gave it no note, this five-acre kidney of land tucked in close but not contiguous with, the shore land my wife and I purchased in 1973. We never were consulted ...
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First Place, Nonfiction, Grade 3-6 : Katrina
Brooke Dexter, an 11-year-old sixth grader at Chugach Optional Elementary, wrote a journal-style essay about her feelings on the suicide of a former Chugach student and friend of her older sisters, Katrina Bryant. This excerpt describes an evening memorial service held at the school.
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First Place, Fiction, Open to the Public : Evan of the Rains
Evan Banks always came with the rain. He would show up, just after dinner, his shirt speckled and slick, and he would sit in our den and drink scotch with my father. A nightcap, he called it, as if that made it all right. As if that made him not sixteen.




