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2021 Writing Competition Winners

Non-Fiction-Technical-Published

Second Place Covid-19 Impacts On-Campus Law Enforcement Operations

John M. Weinstein


Non-Fiction-Non-Technical Published

First Place- An Overview of Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment Tools…

David Cropp

Third Place – Dead Weight…

Claire O’Brien

Fourth Place So, You Want to Be a Supervisor?..

John M. Weinstein/Dan Dusseau


Non-Fiction-Non-Technical Unpublished

First Place For Twenty Dollars There Wouldn’t Have Been a Murder

Keith Bettinger

Second Place Scooby-do’s Hats

Joseph B. Haggerty Sr.

Third Place A Friend Forgotten

Joseph B. Haggerty Sr.


Poetry

Second Place Shots Fired

Joseph B. Haggerty Sr.

Third Place Who Can I Talk Too

Joseph B. Haggerty Sr.


Screenplay (Published)

First Place Life After Oblivion 

Tommy Anderson


Flash fiction Non-Published

First Place Seeing Red

Darlene Record


Short Story Published

First place Welcome to the Sisterhood

Ellen Kirschman


Short Story  Non-published

First Place Too Much to Handle Alone

Barbara Lloyd

Second Place Double Deceit

Lynn Hesse

Honorable Mention Shots Fired

Joseph B Haggerty Sr.


Non-Published Fiction Book

First Place The List

John Schembra

Second Place When Silence Screams

Mark Edward Langley


Third Place Under The Black Flag

Jim Guigli

Honorable Mention

The Dutch Winter

Albert Vandesteeg

Hide and Seek

Kierstin  Marquet


Non-Published Book (Non-Fiction)

Honorable Mention… Nothing Left To Prove…

Danny R Smith


Published Fiction Book

First Place…Tangled Webs

Susan Tuttle

Second Place…Unwritten Rules

Danny R Smith

Project A

H.S. Thompson

Third Place

Felony Murder Rule

Thonie Hevron

Death Waits In The Dark

Mark Edward Langley

Honorable Mention

Dead Horses

David E Knop

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