Jerry Kilbride 2008 Memorial Haibun Contest Winners:

CHO is pleased to present the winners of the 2008 Kilbride Contest sponsored by the Central Valley Haiku Club. The judges were Michael Dylan Welch and Garry Gay and Michael provides a commentary on the competition and winners' work.

Renée Owen, Fields of Cotton, First Place
Anne French, Kansas off the Interstate, Second Place
Ellen Compton, Epitaph, First Honorable Mention
Jeffrey Harpeng, The Day After, Second Honorable Mention
Michael Dylan Welch's Comments
About the Annual Kilbride Memorial Competition

Editor Bruce Ross' Selection from This Issue

In each issue, one of our editors selects and comments on a haibun that was in some way outstanding for him. For this issue, Bruce Ross picked Christopher Pachel's "First Love."

Christopher Patchel, First Love & Bruce Ross' comments

CHO Haibun Selection

Hortensia Anderson, Fleurissimo
Hortensia Anderson, Lantern
Hortensia Anderson, Remains of Myself
Ludmila Balabanova, Little White Bunny
Eric Berg, The Whiteness of the Winnowing Fan
Matthew Caretti, Dark Whistling
Matthew Caretti, Short Gone
Susan Constable, A Matter of Color
Tish Davis, Breaking Waves
Tish Davis, Night Padding
Joshua Gage, Tragedy
Jerry Gill, Today
Michael Harper, Layers
Ruth Holzer, Gorsehayes, Ipswich
Ruth Holzer, Via dei Fiori
Nancy Esther James, Almost Heaven
Nancy Esther James, Tsuyu
Clyde Kessler, Hat
Michael Kiella, Aboriginal
Bob Lucky, Aftermath
Victor Maddalena, October
Victor Maddalena, The First Snow
Don Miller, Busy Signal
Mike Montreuil, Apollo
Mike Montreuil, Parka
Robert Moyer, Just Like Always
Peter Newton, Oscar and Evelyn
Renée Owen, Beach Week
Renée Owen, Drink a Toast
Christopher Patchel, A No Passing Zone
Christopher Patchel, Polarity
Carol Pearce-Worthington, Heaven
Carol Pearce-Worthington, One Good Man
Carol Pearce-Worthington, The Scholarship
Carol Pearce-Worthington, The Shape of Wind
Patrick Pilarski, Church Doors
Patricia Prime, Paper Boats
Patricia Prime, The Pack House
Ray Rasmussen, Deliverance
Adelaide Shaw, A City Corner
Adelaide Shaw, Family
Diana Webb, Biography 1
Diana Webb, Biography 2
Neal Whitman, Hold That Line
Tad Wojnicki, Looking for Steinbeck’s Ghost

Haibun by the Editors

Ken Jones, Dying in Luxury
Jim Kacian, Parable
Bruce Ross, An Old Vase

Content Editors Ken Jones, Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross review submissions independently and then collaborate to accept submissions for two categories: I. contemporary haibun, an annual anthology from Red Moon Press and, II. contemporary haibun online. All selections are published in cho, our online journal and the writers are notified as to whether their haibun will also appear in the annual.

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