Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Sussex-Surry Dispatch Entry Title: Queenie Cooks Entry Credit: Terry Harris Judge Comment: These are more than recipes, they’re conversations with readers! Full engagement!
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Times-Virginian Entry Title: Late Night Radio by Josh Urban Entry Credit: Josh Urban Judge Comment: Great conversations, “sage” advice, nostalgic notions, even some “bittersweet” conclusions. Sometimes “telling” stories forgets the audience, the readers.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Times-Virginian Entry Title: Hunt Smart, Fish Hard by Leon Mettler Entry Credit: Leon Mettler Judge Comment: Nice stories with the “first person ‘I’.” Good narrative style.
Competition Comment: Columns should engage readers, not merely tell stories. Style, language, conversation work well together. Each entry had one or more of these elements, but the finishing order, in this judge's view, also defines a column's rules of engagement.
