The Petigru Review: 2009 Winners

Under a Good Hat
Fiction by Donna Campbell

Anything for a Story
Nonfiction by Betty Wilson Beamguard

Wash
Poetry by Kathryn Etters Lovatt

The Knock
Fiction by Kim Catanzarite

To My Daughters, Who Will Dress Me
Poetry by Sally Arango Renata

A Sudden Man
Nonfiction by Bob Strother

Plastic Jesus
Poetry by Trilby Plants

Satan’s Lingerie
Fiction by Valerie Keiser Norris

Watch Out
Nonfiction by Betty Wilson Beamguard

Riding Double
Poetry by Millard R. Howington

Sailing Yarn
Poetry by Robin Lewis

Miz Audrey Goes to Church
Fiction by Valerie Keiser Norris

Fault Line Sonnet #5
Poetry by Michael Hugh Lythgoe

The Shoebox
Nonfiction by S. Jane Gari

Why the Snake Died
Poetry by Betty Wilson Beamguard

Smoke
Fiction by Maureen Sherbondy

Kitesurfer in New South Wales Hit by Tail
Poetry by Maureen Sherbondy

Quitting
Fiction by Kim Catanzarite

Myrtle Beach Sonnet
Poetry by Michael Hugh Lythgoe

Declaration of Independence
Nonfiction by Jim McFarlane

Home on the Road
Fiction by Steve Heckman

Sudden Death
Nonfiction by Missy Nicholson

Blues
Poetry by Donna Campbell

The Cruise
Fiction by Susan Boles

Reunion
Poetry by Millard R. Howington

Paradise Found?
Fiction by Lynne M. Hinkey

A Toast to the Dead
Nonfiction by Brenda Bevan Remmes

Stephen Post Queen, February 26, 1894
Poetry by Brittany Vandeputte

Long Silky Black Hair
Fiction by Donna Higgons

Biscuits
Poetry by Brenda Bevan Remmes

Coming Home
Nonfiction by Kimberlyn Blum-Hyclak

From Match.com to Reelfoot
Fiction by Betty Wilson Beamguard

Jesus on a Bicycle
Poetry by Bob Strother

A Tender Age
Poetry by Bob Strother

The Very Sick Passenger
Nonfiction by Kim Catanzarite

The Fire Ants
Poetry by Robin Lewis

The Last Word
Fiction by Grace W. Looper

You Are the Boy With the Sunlit Hair
Poetry by Kathryn Jeffcoat

In the Garden
Fiction by Dick Brook

Christmas Gift
Nonfiction by Elsie Holcombe

The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane
Fiction by Janet Sheppard Kelleher

Last Mother
Poetry by Nan Lundeen

Eulogy
Nonfiction by Trilby Plants

Private Horrors
Fiction by Steve Gordy

The Lost
Poetry by Robin Lewis

Elvis Lite
Nonfiction by Bob Strother

The Winter Before the Flood, He Crawled into Himself
Poetry by Sally Arango Renata

Food as Religion
Fiction by Paddy M. Bell

Pass Christian, Mississippi Mission Trip
Nonfiction by Martha T. Robinson

He Belongs to Mexico
Fiction by Billie Bierer

The Good Husband
Poetry by Marilyn N. Smith

No Time to Write
Nonfiction by Melinda Cotton

How to Succeed in Sales
Poetry by Maureen Sherbondy

Walls
Poetry by Michael Hugh Lythgoe

The Clown
Fiction by Richard Lutman

The Nature of Things
Poetry by Marilyn N. Smith

The World’s-Gone-Crazy Cotillion
Fiction by Bob Strother

Kudzu
Poetry by Will Jones

Brave Front
Poetry by Betty Wilson Beamguard

Blood Kin
Poetry by Elsie Holcombe

Herbert Slago’s Revenge
Fiction by Gene Hines

October
Poetry by Marilyn N. Smith

Check Your Battleship
Nonfiction by Robin O’Bryant

Flood Tide
Fiction by David F. Westeren

Freak Potential
Poetry by Bob Strother

Ships in the Night
Fiction by Charles P. Reeve

Tyrants
Poetry by Tim Harkins

Sun Patch
Poetry by Brittany Vandeputte

Squirrel Friends
Nonfiction by Brittany Vandeputte

Harley and the Mare
Fiction by Steve Heckman

Half Full
Poetry by S. Jane Gari

Strange Elvis Searches on Google
Nonfiction by Phil Arnold

A Moment of Silence
Poetry by Sally Arango Renata

The Country Road
Fiction by Lisa Wright-Dixon