Winners of the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.

Congrats to the winners of the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.

THE WINNERS:
Novel:            Millard Salter Will Kill Himself This Evening, Jacob Appel, New York, NY
Runners-up:  The Last Bird, (The Life of Adrian Mandrick), Chris White, Bainbridge, IN

Narrative Non-Fiction:    How to Eat Ali’s Mother, Adriana Páramo, Kissimmee, FL
Runners-up:                   Land’s End: Field Notes and Photos from “the End of the World,”
                                                C. E. Richard, Lafayette, LA
                                      Losing Glynnis, Roz Kuehn, New York, NY

Novella:           Terminal, Andrew Plattner, Atlanta, GA
Runners-up:    Drunk with Fire, Daniel Turtel, New York, NY
                       The Sealed Room, J. L. Montavon, San Francisco, CA

Novel in Progress:   Took, Brenda McClain, Ashland City, TN
Runners-up:            Letters from the Front, Barnes Carr, Houston, TX
                               River, Steal, Rachel Lyon, Brooklyn, NY

Congrats to Jacob Appel who last year was runner-up in both the Novel and Novel-in-Progress.

As for Taking the Expat Exit, it remains as a finalist in the novel category.

*Taking the Expat Exit repeats as finalist in 2017, though double the amount of entries. 


  —Borneo Expat Writer