The winner of the Fiction category is Mandy Haynes-Bailey of the Pediatric Echo
Lab for her story “The Day I Threw the Rock,” a remembrance by a young girl with a great pitching arm who comes to the rescue
of her friend Sara Rose.
The Nonfiction category winner is “What
Everyone Dies Of,” by Ginger T. Manley of Psychiatry, a story about the deaths of two elderly
relatives in England, and how she will never hear “Onward, Christian Soldiers” quite the same way again.
The Poetry winner is “Change
of Plan” by Peg McNabb of Network Computing Service, a look at what might keep an
erstwhile globetrotter closer to home.
There were almost 50 entries to the Writing Contest this year, and the quality
of the entries as a whole was impressive—again presenting ample evidence that the Medical Center is full of writers
walking around disguised as normal people.
But the stories and poems don’t stop there: contest honorable
mentions are here on the House Organ Website.
You’ll find:
Fiction honorable mention “Seeing
Red,” by Joanne Merriam of Otolaryngology, a puzzle of a story about interlocking
lives and the random way that fate puts us together.
Two additional entries from Joanne Merriam, Poetry honorable mentions “Mirror
Points” and “Hotel,” as well as “A
Dollop” by Jan Rosemergy of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center; “Uncomplicated” by Brenda Butka of Allergy, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care; and “Toy
Story” by Jeff High, of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, a longtime friend of the writing
contest.
Thanks to everybody who entered the writing contest and, on behalf of those
whose work is here and online, thanks for reading.
