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Fall and Winter 2009
Volume 2 | Number 2
Grand Prize Winner:  Cinthia Ritchie / “Pig Road”

Things started to fall apart the year the girl was murdered up on Pig Road, little more than a rutted trail, and along it the charred remains of a pig farm that had burned down so many years before that no one remembered.  My sisters and I played there, among the ruins, inside the blackened cement foundation, digging around for treasures: canning jars, leather shoes, pieces of cloth we folded and stuck in our pockets.

The rest of the road was undeveloped; woods on one side, marsh on the other.  The air was heavy with a rot that made us feel drunk as we ran through the weeds, our legs scratched and bitten beneath the cheap shorts we wore.

Excerpt from “Pig Road” by Fall and Winter 2009 Grand Prize Winner Cinthia Ritchie  

Second Prize for Memoir in Prose or Poetry:
Marcia S. Popp / “what my father did and did not bring home in 1943”
Third Prize for Memoir in Prose or Poetry:
Liane Kupferberg Carter / “Love is Like This”
Prize for Graphic Memoir: 
Marguerite Dabaie / “The Making of a Woman Terrorist”
Photography: Twenty Artists Stand Alone

Additional Contributors Include:
James Arnold, Dianne Bilyak, Natalie Brown, Mauro Criscenti Bull, Katie Cappello, Mauricio Alcaraz Carbia, Liane Kupferberg Carter, Kim Chau, Jeffrey Clarke, Marguerite Dabaie, Nhung Dang, Dante, Dillon, Anna Donlan, Zahie El Kouri, Scott Eubanks, Emily Ganus, Donald Illich, Benjamin Kaplin, Zachary Kluckman, Lucy Lambriex, Paul Lindholdt, Christopher Locke, Irene McKinney, Mary-Anne McNeney, Melthon, Tendai R. Mwanaka, Alberto Nolazco, Ken Paquette, Eric Parey, Matthew D. Penning, Marcia S. Popp, Rambo Rob, Russell Reece, Cinthia Ritchie, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, David Rompf, Amber Rossino, Afiq Rostam, Charles Rutter, Jeroen Schoonderbeek, Richard Fenton Sederstrom, Seth Courtney Siegel, Bernie Stritzke, $ucka Free, Janet Sylvester, Allen Tunget, Tiffany S. Wallace, Andrea L. Watson, Johnson Wong. 

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