The Binnacle
Production Updates
Eighth Annual Ultra-Short Competition
We are proud to announce the prize winners and honorable mentions of out Eighth Annual Ultra-Short Competition (in alphabetical order):
Prize for Poetry
SuzAnne C. Cole - Granite Woman
UMM Student Prize
Myra Merritt - Wonderland and Oz Collide
Prize for Prose Poetry
Shannon Schuren - Puddings
Prize for Prose
Philip Simondet - Grocery List
Our Fifty-Three Honorable Mentions
Greg Beatty - Homage
F.J. Bergmann - Containers
Jen Campbell - Catwoman
Kathleen J Clauson - Survival by Shamrock
Zachary Cole - Grey
Sue Ann Connaughton - Baby Love
Amy Corbin - Dear Mr. Barlow
Robert Craig - New Life
Carol Leonetti Dannhauser - Family Portrait
Susan Desrocher - Fire Lilies
Mike DiChristina - Old Lovers
Christina Wos Donnelly - Love Song
Anne Earney - One Side of Things
Meg Eden - with stacking,
Rachel Fenton - Inherited
Andy Fogle - One Ring
Claire Gillian - TSA Urban Legend #4
Tammy Guzman - Postpartum
Maryanne Hannan - Soft Skills for Today's Job Market
Tania Hershman - In Memoriam
Kasey Hewett - Dehydrated
Debbie Okun Hill - Before Our Future Wrinkles
Sylvia Hiven - No Choice
Christopher Irvin - The Man in the Cold
Julie "Jules" Jacob - Night Games
Cassidy Jones - Two of a Kind
Oonah Joslin - Death of the Father
Clare Kirwan - The Tattoo
Ellen LaFleche - Love on the Rocks
Ruth Lehrer - Lion Winter
Melissa Lindstrum - All I Have of His Is This Navy Reserve Sewing Kit
Katherine Lopez - Neat Gardens with a Sudden Rose
Adam Lucas - True Story
Barb McMakin - Breakfast of Champions
Caroline Michalicki - No Need
David Mohan - Reduce
Kari Nguyen - The Dispensary
Alysson Parker - Black-Eyed Susan
Barbara Fleming Phillips - Living Will
Meagan Reeves - Fairy Wings
Jun de la Rosa - Mangoes
Lynn Veach Sadler - After You're Dead
Maureen Sherbondy -The Princess Strikes Out On Her Own
Jennifer Sirrico - The Ride
Diane Smith - Can You?
Jenna Pashley Smith - Bala Perdita
Dawn Sperber - Heart Games
Scott T. Starbuck - We Are Not Mermaids
Erik Svehaug - Myth or Mom
Ann Swann - Aftermath
Donna Turello - Karma
Mercedes Yardley - Blossom Bones
Melissa Yuan-Innes - Hunting and Gathering on Earth
Updates on Other Editions
The Spring 2011 edition is complete and available for purchase.
The Seventh Annual Ultra-Short Competition edition is is also complete and available for purchase.
We will be accepting submissions for our Fall 2011 edition until October 15, 2011.
We are making arrangements to make The Binnacle (past, present, and future editions) available on Kindle.
