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Contributors to Veterans’ Voices receive $10 for every published story, poem or drawing. Photographers receive $5 for every published photograph. Published submissions also qualify for special prizes made possible by generous donors. Find out how you or your organization can regularly sponsor a writing prize. A list of special prizes follows:
STORIES — Fact or Fiction
Adult Learning Center Award: “Humor in the Face of Adversity” by Ed Goldsmith (Story) $15
Alpha Chi Omega Award by Gamma Gamma Chapter, New York, In memory of Elizabeth Fontaine (4 Stories) Each $25
Walter H. Bockting Award: “As I Remember My Parents” (Story, Perpetual) 1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25
Catholic War Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary, Washington, D.C. (Story, Perpetual) $15
DAV, Arlington-Fairfax Chapter 10 Award 1st Prize $60 2nd Prize $40
DAV, Ernestine Schumann-Heink Chapter 2 “Military Service Award” (Story, Perpetual) 1st prize $60 2nd Prize $40
DAV, Four Chaplains Memorial Chapter 108: Editor’s Choice (Story) 1st Prize $25 2nd Prize $15
DAVA, State Dept. of Kansas (2 Stories) Each $25
Dept. of Kansas, Ladies Auxiliary to VFW: Personal Story (Perpetual) $25
Elizabeth L. Fontaine Memorial Award: Story expressing compassion and understanding (Perpetual) 1st Prize $20
2nd Prize $15
In Memory of Daniel Goodman, brother, by Ruth G. Waskey (Story) $25
Florence E. Kenny Award (Story, Perpetual) 1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25
Phoenix Writers’ Club Award: “My Favorite Author or My Favorite Book (Story) $20
In Memory of Jane Piatt, WOSL, Lansing Unit (Humorous Story) $25
In Memory of Dr. Thomas Dick Slagle by Franklin and Lee Banning-Morris (Story, Perpetual) $15
Major Katherine Stull Valor Award: Story expressing special courage (Perpetual) $20
Pallas Athene Best Story Award: National Women’s Army Corps Veterans Association (Perpetual) $25
WAC Veterans Association, San Diego Chapter 50, written by a woman veteran (Story) $25
WOSL Washington Unit (2 Stories) Each $15
POEMS
Elizabeth Bohan Memorial Award (Beginner’s Poem, Perpetual) $10
The BVL Fund, supported by the Bowlers of America (Poem, Perpetual) 1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25 3rd Prize $15
Elizabeth Anderson Campbell Memorial Award (Poem, Perpetual) $10
Hazel Christenson Award (Poem) $10
Lillian Donner-Jacobson: Editor’s Choice (Poem) $10
Chaplain Earle V. and Ellen C. Conover Award (Best Religious Poem, Perpetual) $25
DAVA, Harry L. Herron Chapter 49, Waynesville, Missouri: Editor’s Choice (Poem) $25
DAVA, Birmingham Hospital Chapter 73 Award (Poem) $20
DAVA, State Dept. of Kansas (3 Poems) Each $25
In Memory of Henrietta Benn Evans, sister, by William W. Benn (Poem, Perpetual) $35
Gladys Feld Helzberg Award (Best Poem, Perpetual) $15
Sally-Sue Hughes Perpetual Award (3 Poems each issue) Each $10
Lt. Kalled Vern Kalled Memorial Award by Emily K. Lovell (Poem) $10
Women’s Overseas Service League, Kansas City Unit (Poem) $10
SPECIAL CATEGORIES
Art Award by DAV, Eugene P. Long Chapter 32, Albuquerque, New Mexico $25
DAVA, State Dept. of Florida (Story or Poem) $30
Gladys M. Canty Memorial Award by Northern Chapter 33, WAC Veterans Association (Story or Poem) $30
General Melvin J. Maas Chapter 17 DAV & DAVA (Story, Poem or Art) $30
In Appreciation of WOSL Members by Doris Cobb, Editor’s Choice (Story or Poem) $15
Joseph Posik Award: Given to a veteran who has written for Veterans’ Voices and encourages other hospitalized veterans to write. Medical center administrator nominates; publisher approves $50
BVL Fund Bowling Award: Stories and Poems written about bowling 1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25
Earl S. Hardin Memorial by Military Order of the Cooties, Auxiliary 39, Paris, Texas. Story about experience in Vietnam.
(Story) $25
Jerry Baker Award by Military Order of the Cooties, Auxiliary 39, Paris, Texas. Story about POW experience, by a POW
(Story) $15
Jack “Pea Picker” Owens Memorial by Military Order of the Cooties, Auxiliary 39, Paris, Texas. Story about special courage, by or about a POW (Story) $15
WAC Veterans Association, Oveta Culp Hobby Chapter 61, Dallas: Editor’s Choice, In Memory of Our Women Veterans (Story or Poem) $30
WAC Veterans Association, Bay State Chapter 14: Written by a woman veteran (Story or Poem) $30
WOSL, Santa Clara/Peninsula Unit: Written by a woman veteran (Story or Poem) $25
Military Order of the Cooties, Grand of Michigan, Best Humor Award (Story or Poem) $30
SPRING ISSUE:
Charles Rettinger Memorial Award: Editor’s Choice (Story, Poem or Art) $50
DAVA, Chapter 1, Phoenix: Editor’s Choice (4 Stories) $25
WAC Veterans Association, Columbus, Ohio, Chapter 3 (Short Story and Poem) Each $25
In Memory of Mother, Ada Benn, by William W. Benn, Writing Aide Annual Award: For exceptional, competent devotion, and wholesome, warm, fine spirit in aiding hospitalized veterans. Decision by publisher $100
In Memory of Capt. William W. Benn, brother, by Stanley and Sydney Benn (Story, Perpetual) $50
The McCullough Brothers (Four) Combat Infantryman’s Badge Award: For any story of an experience in combat by an Infantryman, Marine Infantryman and/or Combat Medical man. Please state branch of service. (Story, Perpetual)
1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25
SUMMER ISSUE:
Charlotte Dilling Memorial Award by United Republican Fund of Illinois, “Why Veterans Should Vote/Why We Should Perpetuate the Two-Party System” (Story) 1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25
The McCullough Brothers (Four) Combat Infantryman’s Badge Award: For any story of an experience in combat by an Infantryman, Marine Infantryman and/or Combat Medical man. Please state branch of service. (Story, Perpetual)
1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25
National VFW Annual Award: Story about veterans’ hospital experiences — coping with hospitalization, recovery, rehabilitation, etc. (Story) 1st Prize $50 2nd Prize $25
FALL ISSUE:
How My Disability Made Me a Better Person Award, National Amputation Foundation and National Amputation Chapter 76, Disabled American Veterans (Story) 1st Prize $85 2nd Prize $65
DAVA 18, Byers, Moorehead & Glover Annual Award: Editor’s Choice (Story) $25
WAC Veterans Association, Long Beach 57, written by a woman veteran (Story) $25
In Memory of Capt. William W. Benn, brother, by Stanley and Sydney Benn (Poem, Perpetual) $50
In Memory of James Grant, brother, by Matthew Grant (Positive, Upbeat Story) $25
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