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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE
23rd ANNUAL PALO ALTO WEEKLY

Adult Winners

From an elegant Hamptons hotel to the drab 1950s Soviet Union, from a girl's bedroom to a bloody Iraq battlefield, the winning entries in the Palo Alto Weekly Twenty-Third Annual Short Story Contest take us around the world.

Grabbing moments of spare time to craft and hone their imagined tales into words, this year's winners drew their inspirations from overheard conversations, current events, friends, kids, sports, books and the ordinary routines of daily life.

The Palo Alto Weekly thanks each of the 160 writers who entered this year's contest as well as writers Ann Hillesland and Judy Clement Wall, who selected the top ten entries in each category to send on to the judges. Thanks also to our judges, and to contest co-sponsors Bell's Books of Palo Alto, Kepler's of Menlo Park and Linden Tree of Los Altos.

First Place
Aleks Merilo
Little Moscow

Second Place
Jyoti Pande Lavakare
Riots and Duets

Third Place
Jill O'Nan
Naked Politics

Youth Winners

Children 9-11

First Place
Fiona Hon
The Dream Machine

Second Place
Ashil Koranne
Coke Nirvana

Third Place
Patricia Lin
Venice, 1804

Teen 12-14

First Place
Amelia Rosch
Back and Forth

Second Place
Sharon Lo
5-12-08

Third Place
Camille Von Kaenel
The Boy and the Elephant

Young Adult 15-17

First Place
Nicola Goldberg
Bliss

Second Place
Camilla McHugh
Tangerine Sun

Third Place
Cam Stein
The End of the Path

The Ceremony will be held Monday December 8, 2008 at 7 p.m. at Kepler's Books & Magazines at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.
Friends and Family are welcome.

Short Story Contest JUDGES

Past winners:
2007 winners
2006 winners
2005 winners
2004 winners
2003 winners
2002 winners
2001 winners
2000 winners
1999 winners
1998 winners
1997 winners
1996 winners

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2007 Awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association

Palo Alto Weekly

First Place
Local News Coverage
Local Breaking-News Story
Feature Story

Second Place
Feature Story
Environmental Reporting
Sports Coverage
General News Photo
Photo Essay
Freedom of Information

The Almanac

First Place
Environmental Reporting
Editorial Pages
Lifestyle Coverage

Second Place
Environmental Reporting

Mountain View Voice

Second Place
General Excellence
Editorial Comment
Front-Page Design

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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 23rd ANNUAL PALO ALTO WEEKLY

Short Story Contest JUDGES

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE
23rd ANNUAL PALO ALTO WEEKLY