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Local Gems NaPoWriMo Poetry Chapbook Contest! 
April 2014 Contest Results



In honor of National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) Local Gems Press announced the introduction of our NaPoWriMo Chapbook contest for April 2014

30 poems in 30 days. A poem a day for April. 

All participants took part in the NaPoWriMo) Challenge of 30 poems in 30 days.


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Contest Winners:

1st Place Prize:

dawn zahra
Chapbook: "Poems from Angkor"
Theme: Children of Cambodia

2nd Place Prize:

Donald E. Allen
Chapbook: "April 1861"
Theme: April 1861 Historical Poetic Fiction

3rd Place Prize:

Margarette Wahl
Chapbook: "School Days"
Theme: Autism/Education


Honorable Mentions:

Waifette
Chapbook: "30"
(a poem for each year)

Karen Jakubowski
Chapbook: "Burned at the Stake"


Carolyn Nemic
Chapbook: "Cherry Cheesecake"
(Poems filled with love and hope for women with breast cancer)
 
George H. Northrup
Chapbook: "You Might Fall In"

Lawrence Jaffe
Chapbook: "In Plain View"


Other Distinguished Finalists:

Sharon Anderson
Evelyn Kandel
Gene McParland
Linda Dickman
Shannon Curtin
Nicole Fuschetti
Barbara Kauffmann
Maureen Hadzick - Spisak
Martin Willitts, Jr  

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