First-Person Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.





   FIRST PLACE   ($3,000)
   GINA OCHSNER  On Principle




   SECOND PLACE   ($1,750)
   HEATHER BRITTAIN BERGSTROM  Celilo Falls




   THIRD PLACE   ($1,oo0)
   HOLLY WILSON  Night Glow



TEN FINALISTS   ($125 each)

Alethea Black   Mistake
Abby Frucht   But You’re Not
Lisa Fugard   The Ghost of Anton Viljoen
Ed Gray   Freedom’s Cross
Barb Johnson   Turn It Up
Twister Marquiss   Spectator Sports
David Torrey Peters   The Dressing Room
Marc Petersen   Shopping in the Middle of the Night
Debra Spark   46
Terese Svoboda   Recon


DON’T MISS: 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.