The Ooligan Press Annual Short Story Contest
Since 2005, spring term students in the advanced book editing class have held a short story contest open to all members of the Portland State University community. Each year the Ooligan editors select four or five winning authors as writers to watch. The editors’ ongoing credo: “We’ll know good writing when we see it.”
2009 Winners:
Dolphins and Crocodiles by Sean Davis
Together, Separate, Nowhere by James Norton
Eleanor Roosevelt by Bryan Beck
What We Lost in the Storm by Helyn Trickey
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2008 Winners:
Movement to Contact by Sean Davis
Swamp Woman by Rebecca English
Thomas by Chelsea Harlan
You Got the Silver by Amanda Johnson.
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2007 Winners:
Second Hand by Blythe Butler
On the Night Vinnie Phelan Nearly Did the Worm by Dave Devine
Mary Me, Life by Kristin Thiel
The Hidden Self by Evan Matthews
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2006 Winners:
Before the Beginning by Twila Nesky
La Ciudad de las Fresas by Virginia Ulrich
Scrabble Night by Jacob Aiello
Spec of Love by Melanie Jennings
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2005 Winners:
After the After by Katie Sinback
Black or White by Mike Bales
Cold Spell by Loretta Stinson
The Jump Rope Queen by Nancy Hill
Silly Putty by Twila Jo Nesky