Categories for 2013 Literary Prize Submissions

9 Shades of Crazy

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Deborah J Taranto 917-992-0459 9 Shades of Crazy (an except from my memoir) This year my mom celebrated her 94th... Read Story

Deerfest

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Deerfest by JZ Holden To cull, or not to cull: that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to suffer the... Read Story

Gillhampton

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

The inaugural GrillHampton was an evening of fine food and a festive atmosphere, enjoyed by guests and chefs from the... Read Story

A New Home

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

A NEW HOME Our first house always felt as if it was alive, as if it was a member of... Read Story

Intruders

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Intruders Early quiet. For some perhaps, although not the Northern Flicker with his red mustache pecking at my deck while... Read Story

Nature’s Nudge

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

NATURE’S NUDGE Last fall, as super storm Sandy barreled through the Northeast, we gathered with family in our New York... Read Story

Crescent Moon Bay

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Crescent Moon Bay Today as the snow lightly cascades down unhampered by any wind, it melts along the pavement of... Read Story

Our Beach

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

It’s just a stretch of sand and too many rocks connecting a dead end road with Little Peconic Bay in... Read Story

Aids Benefit

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Irina Martkovich 425 9th Street Greenport, New York 11944 (631) 477-6912 / Irina@OhWhataMassage.com Words: 602 AIDS BENEFIT The sun was... Read Story

Monarch Mother

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Mommy is sitting on the stool in front of the easel by the yellow slide painting green apples and coke... Read Story

All The Same

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

All The Same Old and tired is how I feel – not everyone who spends summers in the Hamptons is... Read Story

SPEAK-easy

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

SPEAK-easy It’s never the guy with the dog that gets the girl. It’s the dog with the guy that get’s... Read Story

The Eastern Carousel

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Near the end of the Island there stands an old carousel equipped with exuberantly lifeless horses, mockingly stationary lion benches,... Read Story

You Again

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

My relationship with my mother improved greatly after she died. While she lived, there were a few outright gifts she... Read Story

House Thoughts

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

New age loonies say well water and septic tanks equal bad mojo. The house in Noyac where I used to... Read Story

Idyll Love

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

The expressway became a dirt road, back then, at exit 73. We cut through a ghost town called Riverhead and... Read Story

A Little While

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

A Little While Our playground was a country farm-fenced street in Remsenburg, NY. Former potato fields had sprouted a handful... Read Story

Butterfly Eyes

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Driving on the serpentine roads, fields of wildflowers turn my eyes into butterflies. Summer has overcome me, my skin so... Read Story

One Fish

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

“Are the blues running? Or are you going for stripers?” “Too early in the season for stripers on the inside.... Read Story

Gray Smoke

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Gray smoke By Maria E. Sandoval Burns I’m sitting on this old stool of metal and leather with my eternal... Read Story

A Montauk Memory

May 28, 2014 9:12 am Published by

Whitecaps roll in. I watch as they collide and break, spreading white foam in arcs that bubble and pop before... Read Story