The festival's annual writing contest attracted more than 700 entries this year, and today we will meet the three winners: Tara Kramer, Kim Merrill and Isabel Lanzetta. One of these days, we may see them again ... here at the festival with their own books!
| Where: | Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89, Wheelchair accessible)    |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm |
| Genres: | Fiction / Literature, Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction, Poetry |
| Moderator: | Meg Files |
Tara Kramer won the nonfiction division of the festival's Literary Awards Writing Competition. Earlier in her career, she spent 15 years working in Greenland, Antarctica, and Canada for the U.S. Polar Programs, which does research in the Arctic and Antarctica....
Isabel Lanzetta was the first-place winner in poetry in the festival's Literary Awards Writing Competition. Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Oakland Arts Review, New Reader Magazine, Leviathan, Curios Magazine, and Convergence....
Kim Merrill was the winner of this year's Literary Awards Writing Competition in fiction. Her plays have won awards and been produced regionally and off-off-broadway. Her memoir, "Red Girl Jumping," won the 2024 Kenneth Patchen Award for Experimental Fiction....
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