First Prize
Our first prize went to Gregory Huffstutter from California, USA for Katz Cradle;
"In order to solve his partner's murder, a homophobic rookie cop is forced to team up with a gay-rights activist."
Visit Gregory's Web site here.
Gregory's story is read by Gord Mackenzie. Gord is a professional actor living in Windsor, Ontario and the co-founder of Actors Theatre of Windsor. He is also a regular contributor to Librivox, and you can find a listing of his free recordings here.
Read Chapter 1 of Katz Cradle here
Download and listen to Katz Cradle mp3 here
Running time: 20:53
File size: 20 megabytes
Second Prize
We had two second prizes to award. The first went to Scott Middlemist from Arizona, USA for Name Drop Zone;
"A soldier returns to civilian life as an air traffic controller but snaps and causes a horrible crash. He is institutionalized and copes with debilitating nightmares and migraines by using an experimental drug. The drug opens a realm reserved for the dead where he tries to recover the pieces of his shattered soul."
Scott's chapter is read by Shane Young. Shane Young (goodrevdoctor@yahoo.com) is a producer, engineer, and disc jockey at WFHB Community Radio in Bloomington, Indiana.
Read Chapter 1 of Name Drop Zone here
Download and listen to Name Drop Zone mp3 here
Running time: 18:25
File size: 18 megabytes
Second Second Prize
Our second second prize went to Stacie Penney from Wisconsin, USA for Is There Life Out There?;
"A young widow returns to her Midwestern hometown to pick-up the fragments of her life."
The first chapter of Is There Life Out There? is called "Journey and Arrival."
Stacie's chapter is read by New York actress Kymm Zuckert, who describes herself as the most unsuccessful child actress of the 1970's. She has been performing since the age of three, and has been working with Love Creek Productions since 1988, acting in and directing something over 100 plays with them over the past 18 years.
Read Chapter 1 of Is There Life Out There? here
Download and listen to Is There Life Out There? mp3 here
Running time: 15:50
File size: 16 megabytes
Honorable Mentions
These chapters were very popular with our judges. Our honorable mentions went to:
Kent Blackwood from Alabama, USA for Everybody's Fool;
"This is the story of a young Marine who, after his parent's deaths at the hands of a relative, struggles to decide whether to seek revenge or use the event to break completely free of his family."
Read Chapter 1 of Everybody's Fool here
John Ling from New Zealand for Righteous Fire;
"When the favoured son of the Chang family dies, it is up to his outcast sister to unravel the truth."
Read Chapter 1 of Righteous Fire here
Mark Leslie from Ontario, Canada for Morning Son;
"A grieving man uncovers deeply buried family secrets on his quest to lay his father's ashes and memory to rest!"
Read Chapter 1 of Morning Son here
Charleen Touchette and S. Barry Paisner from New Mexico, USA for Real and Fake Indians;
"American Indian athletes Shonto Benally, Shane Yazzie, and Nadema MacCleod race against Maude Meanobee's ring of artifact marketers to retrieve inscribed stones in an adventure that brings Indian Country to Washington, D.C."
Read Chapter 1 of Real and Fake Indians here
Congratulations to all our winners! And to those who didn't win, there will be many next times, so please keep those entries coming.
Thanks again to all our judges for their hard work!