KATHERYN KROTZER LABORDE CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE CATEGORY

 

1st Prize: $100.... 2nd Prize: $50.... Third Prize:.... $25

Category Details

A narrative of up to 3,000 words that takes an experience or event and gives it personal meaning. Creative nonfiction is the child of fiction and journalism. Unlike fiction, the characters and events are real, not imagined. Unlike journalism, the writer is part of the story she tells, if not as a participant then as a thoughtful observer. I will be looking for a strong voice, a solid sense of the story, and a clear sense of one's writing style. One last note: think about the STORY you are trying to tell and don't be a slave to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. This is art, not sworn testimony!

About Judge/Sponsor

KATHERYN KROTZER LABORDE (Metairie, LA) is a writer of prose: fiction, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction. In the realm of general nonfiction, she has published two books, Do Not Open: The Discarded Refrigerators of Post-Katrina New Orleans (McFarland Publishers 2010) and The Story behind the Painting: Frederick J. Brown's Assumption of Mary at Xavier University (Xavier Review Press). Creative nonfiction works have appeared in Callaloo, CrossRoads, nola diaspora, Xavier Reviewand Connotation Press. 

As a fiction writer, she was named the recipient of the Pirates' Alley Faulkner Society Medal for the Novella in 2010; a few years before she was awarded the Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist's Fellowship in Literature. She is currently at work on a book of flash fiction.

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Essays by Katheryn



LAST YEAR'S WINNERS (2015)

First Prize: Lynn Sunday of Half Moon Bay, CA for “The Visit”

Second Prize: Katharyn Howd Machan of Ithica, NY for “Gino's”

Third Prize: Brenda Hammond of San Jose, CA for “Andy”

Honorable Mentions: Shawndra Miller of Indianapolis, IN for “How I Healed my Shaman Sickness”; Ben Gagnon of Orleans, MA for “News in a Box”; Sarah Marxer of San Leandro, CA for “Mid-Life Love Letter”

 

SPECIAL NOTICE:

KATHERYN KROTZER LABORDE HAS GENEROUSLY OFFERED TO GIVE A BRIEF CRITIQUE TO ALL WHO ENTERED THE CREATIVE NONFICTION CATEGORY...E-MAIL HER AT [email protected] WITH THE TITLE OF YOUR ESSAY AND SHE WILL RESPOND WITH A FEW SENTENCES REGARDING YOUR ENTRY. . . OFFER ONLY GOOD THROUGH JANUARY, 2016.