Winner of the 2007
Brenda L. Smart Fiction Prize ($500)
Whit Coppedge, "Paint" (Chapel Hill, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Josh Eure, "Balloon Vine" (Hertford, NC)

Megan Roberts, "Corners" (Greenville, NC)

Finalists

Robin Follet, "Sarcasm" (Cary, NC)

Parfait Gasana, "Equilibrium"  (Chapel Hill, NC)

Cathy James, "Mr. Chinese Right" (Weaverville, NC)
Molly McCaffrey, "The Other Man" (Laurinburg, NC)
Katherine Pearl, "Unscheduled Departures" (Raleigh, NC)

Eric Roe, "Notes from Lazarus" (Raleigh, NC)

Maureen Sherbondy, "The Final Simcha"  (Raleigh, NC)
Jodi Lynn Villers, "ABC"  (Raleigh, NC)

Brendan Walsh, "Bruised" (Raleigh, NC)

Lisa Ward, "Road Side" (Raleigh, NC)

Anne Woodman, "Cherries in the Snow"  (Morrisville, NC)

Winner of the 2007
Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction ($250)

Jodi Lynn Villers, "Vocabulary Builder "  (Raleigh, NC)

Honorable Mention
Tommy Jenkins, "The Scar "  (Raleigh, NC)

Finalists
Jane Andrews, "Frames" (Raleigh, NC)

Whitman Bolles, "Down There"  (Chapel Hill, NC)

Whit Coppedge, "Irritated " (Chapel Hill, NC)
Paul Dixon, "Snap" (Winterville, NC)
Molly McCaffrey, "Look Away " (Laurinburg, NC)
Robert McGee, "That Woman That Night"  (Asheville, NC)
Shailen Mishra, "Performance Behind A Theater" (Raleigh, NC)

Megan Roberts, "R Like Me " (Greenville, NC)
Sarah Simpson, "Conservation" (Raleigh, NC)
Jennifer Weathers, "Triplets"  (Wilmington, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Fiction Prize ($100)
Josh Eure, "Balloon Vine" (Hertford, NC)

Here are last year's winners.  (Recent winner Amy Knox Brown has a debut collection of short stories, Three Versions of the Truth, published by Press 53 this September... so finally someone else can win the darn thing!)

2006 NC State

Short Story Contests

GUEST JUDGE:  SHANNON RAVENEL

Winner of the 2006
Brenda L. Smart Grand Prize for Fiction ($500)
Amy Knox Brown , "Why We Are the Way We Are" 

         (Winston-Salem, NC)

Honorable Mentions

Mitch Conover, "A Short Story for the Last Man Who Still Liked

         Whistling Dixie" (Chapel Hill, NC)

Molly McCaffrey, "The Lake in Winter" (Laurinburg, NC)

Fellow Finalists:
William Boggess, “There”  (Burnsville, NC)
Danielle DeRise, “Small Bodies”  (Wilmington, NC)
Paul Dixon, “Precious Memories”  (Winterville, NC)
Mary Hennessy, “Chicago”  (Raleigh, NC)
Nell Joslin, “Danny”  (Raleigh, NC)
Kathleen Laughlin, “Persons in Need of Supervision”  (Cary, NC)
Shailen Mishra, “The Fifty Year Old Dream”  (Raleigh, NC)
Jeanne Mullins, “On the Spectrum”  (Wilmington, NC)
Melinda Shail, “Pluto—Not A Planet Anymore”  (Raleigh, NC)
Stella Ward Whitlock, “Bear Train”  (Fayetteville, NC)

Winner of the 2006
Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction ($250)
Megan Mayhew Bergman, “The Wet Bones of Eldress Parker Comar”
(Raleigh, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Jane Andrews,  “Nautilus”  (Raleigh, NC)

Fellow Finalists:
David Bell, “Second Choice”  (Laurinburg, NC)
Melissa Bickey, “November Water”  (Winston-Salem, NC)
Vicki Crouser, “In Holyoke Hell”  (Winston-Salem, NC)
Adam Currie, “Cleaning House” (Wendell, NC)
Cathy Freeman, “Daisies”  (Chapel Hill, NC)
Zackary Vernon, “Birthday Suit and the Texture Flat”  (Hillsborough, NC)
Jodi Lynn Villers, “Church Bells”  (Raleigh, NC)
Robert Wallace, “Why Do Cold Brown Chickens Wear Watered-Down Pants?”  (Durham, NC)
Kate Wheeler, “Mark and Jane Talk About Math”  (Carrboro, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Fiction Prize ($100)
Adam Currie, “Cleaning House” (Wendell, NC)
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2005 NC State

Short Story Contests                  

GUEST JUDGE:  LEE SMITH


NCSU professor emeritus and 2005 Guest Judge, novelist LEE SMITH (center) with this year's winners:  AMY KNOX BROWN (for the short-short) from Winston-Salem, NC and WHITMAN BOLLES (for the grand prize) from Chapel Hill, NC.