SCN Novel Pitch & 1st Five Pages Contest Winners

SMOKE CITY NARRATORS
NOVEL PITCH & 1ST FIVE PAGES CONTEST
2009 WINNERS

1st Place - $150: SECOND CHANCES … Theresa J. GRANT … Newaygo, MI
Pitch: Four dead girls, three years in hiding, two men with secrets; for forensic anthropologist Jo Birch, one second chance. 

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2nd Place - $75: CHIN LEE'S PLACE … Vance H. WHITE … Niceville, FL 
Pitch: Reporter Robert Gage turns detective in this hard-boiled thriller set in San Francisco on the eve of World War II. 

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3rd Place - $40: The BODY of HELEN … Tracy KORETSKY … Berkeley, CA  

Author hasn't given permission to post their pitch. 

2009 Honorary Mentions

HM #1: MY NAME is SADIA 
              by Erika Dusen TAMINDZIJA … Arlington Heights, IL

Pitch: A young slave navigates the 16th century Islamic World and struggles to regain her family.                       _____________________________________________________

HM #2: In the SHADOW of the LONE STAR
              by B. J. BATEMAN … Damascus, OR
Pitch: In 1938 Texas, a runaway white girl finds work and love in a colored nightclub, cultivating friendships and inciting violence.

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HM #3: The THIRD STEP
              by Ginger MARCINKOWSKI … Pella, IA 
Pitch: Two countries, two rivers, and her father's funeral cause a woman to confront the incestuous past that's haunted her life. 

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HM #4: KILLING RABBITS
              by Mary Ann KOHENSKEY … Maryland Heights, MO
Pitch: Joe Detrie runs away from an abusive family but returns to rescue his younger brother and kill their father.  

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JUDGE'S COMMENTS on SCN WEBSITE:

http://www.janicewiley-dorn.com/contest.html 

NOVEL PITCH & 1ST FIVE PAGES CONTEST: SEMIFINALISTS

Novel Pitch & 1st Five Pages of a Novel Contest

Sponsored by Smoke City Narrators

2009 SEMIFINALISTS by TITLE ONLY (alphabetically)

The BODY of HELEN
CHIN LEE'S PLACE
The END of ALL ROADS
The FIRST YEAR
IN and OUT of MADNESS
IN the SHADOW of the LONE STAR
INVISIBLE VAMPIRE
KILLING RABBITS
LETTERS from the DEAD
MY NAME IS SADIA
NO LIFE but THIS
RISEN
SECOND CHANCES
SHADOWS of the COMANCHE
SOMEWHERE HOME
The SOUND of INK
THICK and THIN
The THIRD STEP

Winners notified by end of the first week of February. A list of the winners posted by mid-February, along with a few comments by the final judge and contest director highlighting how the winners grabbed our attention.

We'll also give general pointers on how the entries that didn't reach the semifinalist level can be improved. We hope this will help writers find success when entering future contests or submitting their fiction for publication.