Arizona Authors' Association Announces 2016 International Literary Awards Finalists

The Arizona Authors' Association announced the finalists in Arizona's finest literary competition. Winners will be presented in Phoenix on November 5, 2016 at the Association's 35th Annual Awards Gala and Silent Auction. Works by all finalists will be published in the Arizona Literary Magazine 2017 scheduled for release in late Fall 2016.

GREEN PIECES PRESS 2016 ARIZONA BOOK OF THE YEAR and all category winners will be awarded during Arizona Literary Awards Gala and Silent Auction, Saturday, November 5, 2016, Embassy Suites Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona. For Ticket Information, email Lisa at AzAuthors(at)gmail(dot)com or call 602-554-8101. Reservation deadline is October 14, 2016.

Established in 1980, the Association's awards program honors both unpublished and published international literary excellence and has launched the career of many authors. The program expanded last year to include the Green Pieces Press Arizona Book of the Year. Literary prizes and honors are listed at http://www.azauthors.com/contest_index.html.

A list of the 2016 literary finalists (alpha by title) follows:

UNPUBLISHED LITERATURE

POETRY
Bereft, by Bruce L. Reynolds
Earth's Core Made of Candy, by Katherine Atwell Herbert
Freediving for Pearls, by Chelsea Grieve
Guitars Weep Into Wineglasses, by Sarah Leonard
Just Not West 47th Street, by Bruce L. Reynolds
Love's Sequence, by Joseph Ridgway

NEW DRAMA
Muffins, by Wendy Memoli
My Mother's Voice, by Nancy Scheneman-Brehm
Tears Speak Spirits Soar, by Linda S. Bierwagen

SHORT STORY
Aunt Gussie and the Enemy Within, by Robert Natiello
Sweet Water, by Nancy Chaney
The Case of the Old Colt, by John Hansen
The Moment, by Katherine Atwell Herbert

ESSAY / ARTICLE / TRUE STORY
Charlie's Story, by John Hansen
How Are Things With You?, by Diane Phelps Budden
The Bat is Dead, by Terryl Warnock
The Waiting Room, by Laurie Wilson Fatland

UNPUBLISHED NOVEL
Hidden Ones - A Veil of Memories, by Marcia Fine
Midnight Landing, by Casey Thorne
The ISIS Affair, by J. David Rich
Voiceless Whispers: A New Shaman's Calling, by Jane Ruby

PUBLISHED LITERATURE

FICTION
Burning Sky, by R.S. Scott
Filtered, by G.K. Lamb
Knocking on Heaven's Door, by Sharman Apt Russell
Last Tango in Timbuktu, by Tim Schaefer
Peril by Ponytail, by Nancy J. Cohen
The Permanent Solution, by Merle McCann
The Presence of Justice, by Elvis L. Bray

NONFICTION
Arizona On Stage: Playhouses, Plays, and Players in the Territory 1879-1912, by Thomas P. Collins
Chatto's Promise: An Apache Saga, by John Sandifer
Remember the Prisoners: He Came to Set the Captives Free, by Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba
Stories from History's Dust Bin, Vols. 1-3, by Wayne Winterton, Ph.D.
Tremors in the Cloister: A Memoir, by Allan Spiegler

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Blueberry Bear, by Eileen A. Pieczonka
Ellie Adventure Picking Out Puppies!, by Colleen Dougherty
The Ghost in the Convent, by Marianne Mitchell
Train to Glory, by Lisa Y. Potocar