Honorable Mention
(In Alphabetical Order by Author)

TREASON
By Sallie Bingham, Santa Fe, NM

THE JACARANDA TREE
By Alex Broun, Petersham, NSW, Australia

HOME/OFFICE
By Joshua Faigen, Newburyport, MA

SUS MANOS
By Lauren Gunderson, Decatur, GA

THRUWAY DIARIES
By Samuel L. Kelley, Cortland, NY

GREEN MAN
By Jim Knable, New York, NY

THE SEA KING
By Dean Purvis, Los Angeles, CA

We were pleasantly astonished by the overall quality of the scripts we received.

We urge you all to continue the fine work you are doing and we very much look forward to hearing from you again.

Over the weeks to come we will be adding more information on venues, dates and locations for this years winners as well as submission information for next yearÌs competition.

Thank you for participating and best of luck in all your efforts.

Whit Andrews
Literary Manager

Kim Terrell
Artistic Director

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WINNING PLAYS

GRAY AREA by John Ahlin

The North meets the South in a wonderfully funny, provocative, modern-day
clash between rivals who have never met one another outside the realm of
comfortable, predictable, stereotyped thinking. In the verbal fisticuffs
and physical hijinks that ensue, reality blurs as neat categories crumble
under the weight of human contact.

IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE WITH ELVIS by Kato McNickle

A young girl comes to terms with her father's madness as she goes on a quest
"In Search of a Better Life with Elvis". The voice of Africa has called Jezzie to
Memphis, but she thinks the voice meant Tennessee when it really meant Egypt.
So Jezzie steals her mother's Honda and her father's ashes and sets off on a
mission to learn to play guitar so she can lay her father to rest in Memphis
by giving him a gift of his favorite Elvis song. Only trouble is she has no money,
no friends, no intention of singing, and she wasn't listening when the voice
said "Egypt".

N by Laura Harrington