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Previous Years:
2003 & 2004 NC State
Short Story Contests
SHORT FICTION CATEGORY
(5000-word limit, no more than 20 pp. double-spaced)
The Brenda L. Smart Grand Prize: $500

SHORT-SHORT STORY CONTEST
(1200-word limit, no more than 5 pp. double-spaced)
The Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction:  $250

RULES: 
1) You must be an N.C. resident. 
2) You may not have had a published book.
3) The story may not have been published elsewhere.
4)  You may not be a previous winner (sorry!)
5) Previous finalists must submit new stories.
6) You may not be a professor in the UNC system; TAs,
grad students and adjuncts are okay, however.
7) All entries must be double-spaced and typed.

Last year:
the 2004 Contest Finalists:
GUEST JUDGE: RANDALL KENAN

fiction winners 2004

TRACIE FELLERS (an adjunt professor at NC A&T, from Greensboro, NC), Guest Judge
RANDALL KENAN (author of Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and A Visitation of Spirits),
and MISHA ANGRIST (a science editor at the Duke Medical  Center, from Durham, NC) 
revel in literary glory [November 18, 2004]

2004 Winner of the
Brenda L. Smart Fiction Grand Prize
Misha Angrist, "Paper Boy" (Durham, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Tim McBride, "Mr. Wittington" (Cary, NC)
Robert McGee, "Ed Ramirez" (Asheville, NC)

Fellow Finalists
Kate Betterton, "When They Ring the Orchard Bell"
                                           (Chapel Hill, NC)
William Conescu, "The Bridge Group" (Durham, NC)
Whit Coppedge, "Towers" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Claire Guyton, "Where Your Head Goes" (Raleigh, NC)
Irene Harvley-Felder, "Naming the Stars" (Burlington, NC)
Vishal Khanna, "Garbo's Eyes" (Winston-Salem, NC)
Paul Koning, "The Ends of the Earth" (Raleigh, NC)
Nicholas Perros, "Break Up" (Raleigh, NC)
Penelope Robbins, "Girlfriend" (Raleigh, NC)
Denise Sherman, "Gift From A Sinister Santa" (Raleigh, NC)
Mallory Tarses, "Boy At Sea" (Wilmington, NC)
Art Taylor, "Mrs. Marple and the Hit-and-Run" (Raleigh, NC)
Tara Thompson, "Bald" (Wilmington, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Fiction Prize
Millie Breedlove, "I'm Not Afraid, Exactly" (Raleigh, NC)

Winner of the 2004
Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction
Tracie Fellers, "Reverb" (Greensboro, NC)

Honorable Mention
Kevin Boyle, "Palm" (Burlington, NC)

Fellow Finalists
C.L. Dowd, "By The Numbers" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Linda Finigan, "Simple Mission" (Durham, NC)
Mary Hennessy, "In Over Her Head" (Raleigh, NC)
Colin Hickey, "Courage" (Raleigh, NC)
Michael Jasper, "Tiny Disaster" (Wake Forest, NC)
Sharon Kurtzman, "Fresh Air" (Raleigh, NC)
Jason Lundberg "The Artists' Penaptych" (Raleigh, NC)
Greg Shemkovitz, "When You Get Home Late At Night"
                                                 (Greensboro, NC)
Shelley Stout, "Comfort in the Poetry of Songs"
                                        (Matthews, NC)
Mallory Tarses, "World Series, 1979" (Wilmington, NC)
Art Taylor, "Here For You" (Raleigh, NC)
Jodi Lynn Villers, "H is for Husband, B is for Baby"
                                        (Raleigh, NC)
Brent Winter, "I Wish I Could Tell You" (Carrboro, NC)
Leslie Youngblood, "Daddy's Biscuits" (Greensboro, NC)

The 2003 Contest Finalists:
GUEST JUDGE: MARGOT LIVESEY

Winner of the 2003
Brenda L. Smart Fiction Prize

 L.H. Finigan, "Rain, Heavy at Times" (Durham, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Mallort Tarses, "Details" (Wilmington, NC)
Lisa Ward, "Those Who See"  (Rocky Mount, NC)

Fellow Finalists
Misha Angrist, "Venn Diagram"  (Durham, NC)
Amy Knox Brown, "Habeas Corpus"  (Winston-Salem, NC)
Gerard Canavan, "When the Boys Comes Out to Play"
                                                         (Greensboro, NC)
Kim Church, "World Without Columbo"  (Raleigh, NC)
William Conescu, "Cam and Collin"  (Durham, NC)
Brian Crocker, "Late Skate"  (Greensboro, NC)
Timothy Davis, "Mexican Space Shuttle"  (Charlotte, NC)
Therese Fowler, "Outside the Lines"  (Raleigh, NC)
E.F. Harabin, "Do You KNow What It's Like?"  (Wake Forest, NC)
Louisa Jones, "Viet"  (Burlington, NC)
Rebecca Lanning, "Leaving Paradise"  (Wilmington, NC)
Laura Grant McGuire, "Heads or Tails"  (Raleigh, NC)

Winner of the 2003
Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction

 Jennifer Garrison Stuber, "Clown Baby" (Raleigh, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Wes Saylors, "This Just In: Bear Drinks Sodas for Money" 
                                                                        (Boone, NC)

Fellow Finalists
Misha Angrist, "Holidays"  (Durham, NC)
Amy Knox Brown, "Dr. Faustus in Lincoln" (Winston-Salem, NC)
Russell Campbell, "Jake"  (Durham, NC)
Whit Coppedge, "Drought"  (Chapel HIll, NC)
Brian Crocker, "Mill Town, NC"  (Greensboro, NC)
Paul Dixon, "Empty Nest"  (Winterville, NC)
Patrick Egan, "Like We're Talking"  (Greensboro, NC)
L.H. Finigan, "Birth Mothers, Seeking"  (Durham, NC)
Lisa Hartman, "Bald Mountain"  (Durham, NC)
Jordan Hester, untitled  (Raleigh, NC)
Mel Jones, "MIssissippi Funeral"  (Chapel HIll, NC)
Charles Merwarth, "Think of the Alternative"  (Raleigh, NC)
Tom Sowders, "Special"  (Raleigh, NC)