Previous Write Now Finalists

Finalists:
Blu – Gloria Bond Clunie
The Hero Twins: Blood Race – Ramón Esquivel
A Squirrel Boy, A Robot Cat, But Also Parents – Jonathan Graham
My Name is Loofa Tutu – Nicholas Kryah

Finalists:
Había Una Vez – Kristen Boers
Kid Turboni Brings The Rain – Mark Costello
Three Excellent Cows – Eric Appleton
Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven – Reina Hardy

Semi-Finalists

Making Gnocchi With Grandma – Bill D’Agostino
Making Mochi On The Moon – Wendy Gourley
My Hemisphere – Eric Schmiedl and Adaora Nzelibe Schmiedl

Finalists:

The Smartest Girl in the World – Miriam Gonzales
 The Boy Who Loved Monsters and The Girl Who Loved Peas – Jonathan Graham
Birdsong – Nicholas Kryah
Bloom – Andrew Morton

Semi-Finalists

Three Little Girls With Curls and the Old Man – Esther Almazán
OyMG  – Amy Fellner Dominy
What We Lost Along the Way – Corrie Glanville
Shaking Earth  – Patricia Moore Zimmer
Pink Think  – Eric Pfeffinger
A Decent Fellow – Aimee Reid
Grandpa’s Stars – Jeremy Schaefer

Finalists:

The Lost Princess – Nicole B. Adkins
Red Anima – Melissa Cooper
Taste of Sunlight in December – Janis Craft
With Two Wings – Anne Negri

Semi-Finalists

The Line – Jeremiah Clay Neal and Louis Farber
Talkin’ Trash  – Nicholas Kryah
The Fighting Frogs vs. Victoria Vanderbilt  – Valerie Work
Ash Tree  – Georgiana Hernandez Escobar
Monarch Ashes – Jeff Jenkins
The Story Stone – Wendy Gourley
Shaking Earth  – Patricia Moore Zimmer
Chasin’ the Bird – Jason Tremblay

Finalists:

Somebody’s Children – Jose Casas
Little Medea or Medea’s Daughter – Melissa Cooper
Air Guitar High –  Laura Schellhardt
Wild Horses – Rhiana Yazzie

Semi-Finalists

Cully’s Gold –  Carol Korty and Susa Wuorinen
Gathering Blue –  Matt Omasta
Habia Una Vez: A Real Life Fairytale – Kristen D. Simpson
Peer Gynt –  Barry Kornhauser
Purple Heart – Jeff Jenkins,
Role Play – Bruce Post
The Sound of Stars Reflecting – Janis Craft
Mothballistic –  Mark Eisman

Finalists:

By Candlelight – Claudia Haas
Dulce – Ramon Esquivel
The Gift of the Pirate Queen – Tammy Ryan
Muddy Boots – Deni Krueger 

Semi-Finalists:

Mama Tomcat’s Flying School – Spring Herman
A Southwest Desert Tale – Nikki Harmon
Captain of the Sea – Camille Travis
From Every Mountainside – Max Bush

Finalists:

Can’t Believe It – R. N. Sandburg
Pennies in My Hand – Deni Krueger
La ofrenda – Jose’ Casas
The Realm – Sarah Myers

Semi-Finalists

The Glass Box – Philip Stockton
The Great Tree – Anna Kay France
Cast Away in Time – Claudia Haas
Maria of the Light – Margaret Hernandez
Lost and Foundling – Eric Pfeffinger
River Rat and Cat – Y York

Finalists:

Tengu of Kami – Ed Mast
Cathy’s Creek (Musical) – Elise Forier; book, and Tina Lear Music
Freedom Is My Home – Jan Lucas
Stone Girls Dreaming – Lisa Railsback
Lily Plants a Garden – Jose Cruz Gonzalez

Semi-Finalists:

Civil Wrongs — Crystal Rhodes
Power of One — Frumi Cohen
The Vine — Jose’ Casas
DeMilo’s Tears – Mryon Stein
Elves and the Shoemaker – Ric Averill
Waiting for Whimsey – Sherry Miller
Master Skylark – Sylva Ashby

Finalists:

In the Garden of the Selfish Giant – Sandra Fenichel Asher
Threadheads – Dean Corrin
Panadero’s Dream – José Cruz Gonzalez
Tortilla Moon – Margaret Larlham
Puzzles – John D. Newman

Semi-Finalists:

Buried Treasure – Tom Ballmer
Frankenstein’s Children – R. N. Sandburg
Eagle Into the Sun – Matt Webster
The Pig’s Picnic – Joy Chaitin, (Sarah Stevens-Estabrook, Catherine Marchese, andEmile Naoumoff)

Finalists:

Bless Cricket, Crest Toothpaste and Tommy Tune – Linda Daughtery
The Music Lesson – Tammy Ryan
To See the Stars – Cynthia Mercati
Young Eugene – Lowell Swortzell

Semi-Finalists:

Black Heart of Jaio Long – Gene Longen
Belongings – Daniel Fenton
The Boy Who Would Disappear – Craig Fols
The Cottingley Caper – Christopher W. Czajka
The Elements of Style – John Walch
Flower Face – Jennifer Fell Hayes
Joan of ARK – Sandy Fenichel Asher
Nurse, Soldier, Spy – Ric Averill
The Raccoon – Dano Madden
Sarah – Max Bush
Searching for Cindy Crawford – Susan Anner
Searching for David’s Heart – Cherie Bennett

Finalists:

Drop – Dano Madden
Reliable Junk  – Ric Averill
Home Safe – Ellen Cooper
The Riddling Child – John Urquhart
The Wonderful Machine – Coleen Neuman

Semi-Finalists:

Tales of Molly Malloy – Sylvia Ashby
A Show of Hands – Frumi Cohen
Certain People – Richard Hahn
On the Line – Carol Korty
Absconding Alice – Patrick Shanahan
Jack’s Adventure With the King’s Girl – R. Rex Stephenson
On the Winds of Kill Devil Hills – Jo Ann Weatherly
Finn Huck – Sherry Miller

Finalists:

The Wolf and Its Shadows – Sandra Fenichal Asher
Alex and the Shrink World – Ric Averill
The Ghost of the River House – Max Bush
Selkie – Laurie Brooks Gollobin

Semi-Finalists:

Buried Treasure – Tom Ballmer
Aunt Alice’s Summer – Vicki Bartholomew
Anne Frank & Me – Cherie Bennett
Pollyanna – Jeffrey Bush
FrankenTeen – Frumi Cohen
Tucker’s Ridge – Peggy Devitt Katz
Oz – Patrick Shanahan
Blessings – Mary Hall Surface
WYSIWYG – Pat Hale Whitton

Finalists:

Garden of the Witch – Bryan Williams
Another Columbus – Barry Kornhauser
And the Tide Shall Cover the Earth – Norma Cole
The Prince and the Pauper – Travis Tyre 

Semi-Finalists:

Candy Store Window – Cherie Bennett
Pecos Bill & Billie – Toby Bernstein
Little Lord Fauntleroy – Gail Erwin
Certain Arrangements – C. E. McClelland
Class Clown – Kim Oler
Foreigners – Laura Schlitz
Three Wishes – Ted Sod
Endangered Species – Kathy Sorensen
Cinderella – Anne Thurow

Finalists:

Rachel’s Night – Julie E. Brinker
Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes – Brian Kral
Amber Waves – James Still
Totty – Young Eleanor Roosevelt – Sharon Whitney

Semi-Finalists:

Conestoga Stories – Susan Beck
Lundi’s Child – Joan Clark
The Starcraft Orion Discovery – Wil Denson
Scrimmages – Joseph Fedorko
Call Me Graham – Mark Grimsich
Gruff! – Gene Mackey
The Secret Garden – Kim Oler
Gilgamesh – William Shore

Finalist:

Devil’s Orphan – Joanna Kraus (Winner) 

Semi-Finalists:

Journey to the Light – Sarah Schlesinger and David Evans
The Man-Child – Arnold Rabin
A Woman Called Truth – Sandra Fenichel Asher

Finalist:

Becca – Wendy Kesselman (Winner)

Semi-Finalists:

The Kimchi Kid – Joanna Kraus
Remus Tales – Stanley Longman
The Silver Saucer – Sandra Fenichel Asher

Finalist:

Hallelujah Hopscotch – Rachel C. Burchard (Winner)

Semi-Finalists:

The Treasure of Grouch Forest – Max Bush
Secret of Hasserman House – M. L. R. Goodman
Mountain Molly – Nancy Kierspe Settlemyre
The Thunderer – Marilyn Mattys
The Dragonstar – Jeffery Hegy