Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition

2005 Competition Winners

The North Carolina Writers’ Network would like to congratulate the winner and runners up of the Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition.

First Prize - Jewel Deane Love Suddath, for "Remnants from a Mill"

Jewel Deane Love Suddath was born the daughter of a weaver and a draw-in hand in the textile town of Concord, North Carolina. She has drawn heavily on her mill town background when writing essays, short stories, and a recent novel. When Concord’s last mill closed, she traveled from her home in Raleigh to walk through old Cannon Plant 6, where her parents once earned their livelihood. Her prize-winning essay, Remnants from a Mill resulted from that experience. Suddath taught English and creative writing and served as advisor for the literary magazine at Raleigh’s Sanderson High School. Often she did the same writing assignments she gavea her students. Her Southern mystery novel, Murder in Harmony, grew from one of those assignments. Her work has appeared in Bobbin and Shuttle, the News & Observer, and twice in The Bishop’s House Review.

Second Prize - Catherine McCall, for "Marital Twist"

Catherine McCall’s first book, Lifeguarding, a memoir, will be published by Harmony Books in 2006. She has done regular commentary for regional public radio and has published work in the New York Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Wilmington Star-News and the North Carolina Literary Review. She received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In addition to writing, she has a private practice in psychiatry.

Third Prize - Shawna Kenney, for "Alpha Centauri"

Shawna Kenney's memoir, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award in 2000, has been published abroad and optioned for film. Kenney co-edits Herbivore Magazine, while her freelance work has appeared in the LA Weekly, Transworld Skateboarding, Juxtapoz, Alternative Press, and Surfer Girl, among others. Her latest essays appear in anthologies Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache (Alyson Books), and Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (Seal Press). Kenney graduated from the American University in Washington, DC in 1995, then moved to Los Angeles. She recently relocated to Wilmington, NC, where she pursues an MFA in UNCW's Creative Writing program.