Chi-Zine Rannu Award fiction/poetry winners announced...

SteveVernon · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 6:06 am

I came home from work last night to find this e-mail waiting for me.

Dear Competitors,Thank you for your fiction and poetry submissions to the 2010 Rannu Fund. We have finally found our winners and honourable mentions in both the fiction and poetry categories.

**Please note that all judging was done blind; names, bios, e-mails, etc. were stripped from all entries prior to judging.**

Fiction Winner:
"Foretold" by Barbara Gordon

Fiction Honourable Mentions:
"Little Escher" by Robert Borski
"A Swarm of Shadows" by Francine Lewis

Fiction Judges: Don Bassingthwaite, Nick Stokes, Sandra Kasturi

Poetry Winner:
"Barren - A Chronicle in Futility" by Steve Vernon

Poetry Honourable Mentions:
"A Good Catch" by Colleen Anderson
"Manifesting Universes" by Francine Lewis

Poetry Judges: Gemma Files, Helen Marshall, Sandra Kasturi

We would also like to note the entries that made it onto one or more judges' shortlists:

Fiction:
"Freedom's Just Another Word" by Colleen Anderson
"Water of Life" by F.J. Bergmann
"Bat Story" by Michael Colangelo
"Book of Kishon" by Ivan Faute
"Gentle Awakening" by Maybelle Leung
"The Official" by Eric Sandler
"Simulove Industries, Model #69" by Myna Wallin

Poetry:
"Nephology" by F.J. Bergmann
"Overtures" by F.J. Bergmann
"Polterguest" by Robert Borski
"Yeti-Nessie: A Cryptid Love Story" by Robert Borski
"Persephone Depressed" by Adrienne J. Odasso
"For the Reverend Adelir Anton de Carli" by Matt Schumacher
"From a Little-Known Collection Entitled 'Legends of Spiders & Water'" by Matt Schumacher

Thank you all for participating in this competition, and I hope you will all enter again next year--check the website for details in the fall.

PLEASE NOTE that for next year's competition, the Rannu Fund Awards will be sponsored in part by ChiZine Publications.

And thank you for your patience as the judges got through the entries. (And thanks again to the judges!!)

Congratulations, all.

Sandra Kasturi

SteveVernon · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 6:12 am

Winning first place in the poetry section was both a thrill and an honour and the prize money will definitely pay a few bills.

The poem is an epic recounting of the 1820 presidentially-commissioned hunt for the Jersey Devil.

An excerpt from the five page poem will be posted on the Rannu website.

In the fall the entire poem will appear, online, in the pages of Chi-Zine.

ECH · **Joined:** Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:41 pm **Posts:** 46

Awesome Steve, this makes me want to read a five page poem about the 1820 Presidentially commissioned hunt for the Jersey Devil, and I never thought I would type that sentence.

SteveVernon · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 10:34 am

Thanks man, I appreciate it.

And everyone will be able to read this poetic yarn by October - in the pages of ChiZine.
http://www.chizine.com/fiction.htm

TMLCrow · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 3:42 pm

Way to go, Steve!

Steve Vernon--author, award-winning poet and all-around man about town.

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 12702

Wow...first fiction and now poetry! Congrats man!

Tt

Craig Cook · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:25 pm **Posts:** 5340

Awesome news! You certainly deserve it!

horrordude · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2010 1:42 am

Damn! The Mighty Vernon writes poetry that wins competitions ... this guy is like the Jim Thorpe of the writing world.

Of course, I'd love to see a 300 page poem on Captain Nothing ... I can always dream, can't I?

Good job, Steve!

SteveVernon · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:37 pm

The poem is now available for viewing over at Chi-Zine.

http://chizine.com/barren.htm

SteveVernon · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:54 pm

Just placed a second poem at ChiZine, entitled "My Mother Married Bigfoot".

It should be in the April issue.

I'll keep you all posted.

SteveVernon · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:53 am

Hooray!! I have just recieved word that my Rannu award-winning long poem "Barren: A Chronicle in Futility" has been nominated in the long poem category of the SFPA's Rhysling Award!

I am both honoured and highly excited!

Or, in the words of the bard - hot diggedy doo-daw day!

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 12702

Super congrats Steve!

(You know, I knew that guy when...)

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