Debra Christiansen

Small Town Anthology IV Debra Christiansen

In the Spring of 2018, 32 writers answered the call of the challenge to compete, not with swords, but with words. Entries again came via handwritten pages, hand typed pages, email, and hand delivery to the library. Sometimes not only with words, but with photos and drawings. We added a new category this year-Graphic Novel. There was only one entry for this category with a story so beautiful, our teen artist/author took one of the two Grand Prizes (there was a tie). Our other Grand Prize came from Adult Fiction. The author takes you on such a journey in Living in the Moment that to reveal the subject beforehand would diminish it. Her story opens Small Town Anthology IV, and the graphic novel Can You Hear Me? closes it. This is a small town competition. The entries come, not from tons of nameless faces, but our friends and neighbors celebrating their unique vision, fantasies, and experiences. Here all the entries are presented in published form.