2008 Love Story Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists

FIRST PLACE   ($2,500)
ELIZABETH STUCKEY-FRENCH  Interview with a Moron

SECOND PLACE ($1,500)
MAUD NEWTON  Conversations You Have at Twenty

THIRD PLACE ($750)
JANET BURROWAY  Blackout

TEN FINALISTS ($100 each)

Heather Brittain Bergstrom   Shallow Sea
Mermer Blakeslee    Digger’s God
William Borden  The Real Thing
Beth O’Gara Connor  Accommodations
Masha Hamilton  It Always Does
Christian Lewis  It’s a Joy to Serve You
Ron Tanner  Renovation
Sarah Towers  On the Universal Tendency Toward Debasement in the Sphere of Love
Lesley C. Weston  I Believe
Yuvi Zalkow  Blue

The Third-Person Story Contest, with a $3,000 First Prize, a $1,500 Second Prize, a $750 Third Prize, and ten finalists receiving $100 each. Open to fiction and nonfiction. All entries will be considered for publication. The contest runs from January 1 to March 31, 2009.