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The Edmonds Art Festival is this coming weekend (June 14, 15 and 16)
From 2 to 2:30PM each day of the Festival, poets from EPIC’s Poetry Group (led by poet Gerald Bigelow), will be reading their poems at the Frances Anderson Art Festival Gallery (700 Main Street in Edmonds). Please come out to support EPIC and the literary arts!
Winners of the 2019 EPIC Writing Contest

Adult Author Prose

First Place: Flawed Gods by Natalie Leif
Second Place: 1500 by Kipling Knox
Honorable Mention: The Exchange by Pat Power
Honorable Mention: Mark by Mary Pan

Adult Author Poetry

First Place: After the Snow by James Backstrom
Second Place: 12 Years by Natalie Leif
Honorable Mention: Near Paulina Peak by Chris Cantu
Honorable Mention: The Lost Girl by Regina Sadono

Student Author Prose

First Place: The Baker and the King by Emma Howlett
Second Place: Silent Enemy by Kathryn Pinto
Honorable Mention: A Familiar Face by Andy Haider

Student Author Poetry

First Place: Bottled Beach by Michael Skripalsh
Second Place: Another Scrapped Idea for a Poem by Devin Kyle
Honorable Mention: Glasses by Jasmine Boerner
Honorable Mention: Sunflower Daydream by Anonymous
Read the prose and poetry winners here.

Congratulations to Epic board member Paddy Eger for her latest win:

Paddy Eger has received a silver medal from the 2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards for her historical novel Tasman-An Innocent Convict’s Struggle for Freedom in the Australia/New Zealand regional fiction category.
Read the full story here.

EPIC member Kathleen Glassburn's short story collection, Where Do Stories Come From? is now available on Amazon.

The book contains nineteen previously-published short stories with nonfiction material telling about the inspiration for each one.

These stories originally were published in nineteen different literary journals. 

EPIC Members Published in Northwest Prime Time Magazine

New EPIC member Gretchen Murphy's poem "In the Blink of an Eye" was just published in the April edition of Northwest Prime Time magazine. Read the full poem here!

EPIC board member Susan Frederick's essay "Old Lady Babies" was just published on page 4 of the April edition of Northwest Prime Time magazine. Read the full essay here!
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Each year EPIC is proud to sponsor its Annual Writing Contest for Adults and Student Authors (grades 8 through 12) in Prose and Poetry categories. 
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