Canadian Wins Ernest Hemingway Prose Contest

By SVKCVB
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

A Canadian has won the Third Annual Ernest Hemingway Festival ‘Prose for Papa’ fiction writing contest. William Dexter Wade, a graduate of the University of Colorado and currently a Senior Scholar in Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, earned the $500 cash first place prize with his submission The Poet, which will be published in the forthcoming festival magazine. Dr. Wade has published a paper, chapter, or monograph once a year, on average, during a thirty-year academic career. Turning to fiction in retirement, he has a short story, with a coincidental Hemingway focus, entitled Take No Prisoners, Write No Adverbs included in the Silver Anniversary Anthology of the Manitoba Writers Guild and is nearing completion of a novel. He lives in Manitoba, Canada.

Second place was awarded to Megan Williams, a lecturer in the English Department at Santa Clara University, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her winning entry Horse Graveyards is part of a collection of stories she is writing about Maine and Pennsylvania.The third place prize goes to Sun Valley resident, W.W. Kirchherr for his submission The World of Parmenides. A retired professor of mathematics and computer science at San Jose State University, California, he has written short stories as a hobby for years but has never had any published. He is originally from Chicago.

The three winning entries can all be read on-line at www.ernesthemingwayfestival.org.