2023 Winner: Gerrit Marshall
July 2012. I finished reading “Snows”, (that is, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, for non-Hemingway folks), for the second time. I think back and I give thanks that my 1970 Sophomore High School English teacher, Mrs. Barnes, who was dedicated to her students and exposed us to literature that made us think and experience emotion through […]
2022 Winner: Jon Auvil
Looking back now it is plain to see it was The Call of the Wannabe that beckoned me to Sloppy Joe’s those years from 2014 to 2022. In 2014, despite a bit of hesitancy on my part, I ventured to Key West and entered the “Papa” Contest and was astonished by the newfound friendships of […]