http://www.santafenewmexican.com/rss/[Category]/[Slugline] Santa Fe New Mexican en-us http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Editor_s_note The winning stories, essays and poems published here are just the tip of the 2007 Holiday Writing Contest iceberg: We received more than 225 entries t ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Christmas_Cheer First Prize, Children’s PoetryLoris Volkle has stamina. In 60 lines of rhyming verse, Volkle narrates the dawn-to-dusk adventures of a child on Christ ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/A_Winter_Solstice_Dream First Place, Children’s StoriesNothing is as magical as a child’s imagination. Isabel Rodriguez’ sweet prose allows us to share her vision of fairies, ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Winter_Solstice First Place, Children’s EssaysSonja Houpt’s recreation of her attendance at a winter solstice concert at the Lensic Theater engages a number of senses ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Untitled_Essay Second Place, Children’s EssaysAnothy Adkins’ love of playing in the snow is infectious. Even grown-ups who now cringe at the thought of plowing their ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/One_Winter_Day Second Place, Children’s PoetryLike a good baseball game, Jimmy Aranda’s poem hits home runs at surprising moments. Imagining what snowmen do at night ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/The_New_Year_s_Celebration Second Place, Children’s StoriesMicaela Reininga’s rendition of a day in the life of a young woman explores just about all the emotions a teen could e ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/The_Best_Part_of_the_Holidays Third Place, Children’s EssaysA commitment to helping others lights Corrina Leatherwood’s young life — and brings life to her story. Leatherwood makes ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Untitled_poem Third Place, Children’s PoetryA short meditation on winter solstice, Natasha Farmer’s poem evokes the many aspects of winter, from its occurrence as a ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Lights_On_Alex_Chastler Third Place, Children’s StoriesChance Willey used his imagination (and some knowledge of history) to create a distinctive time, place and character fo ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/The_40_Winter_Beatitudes First Place, teen poetry Elizabeth Bates pays tender, humorous homage to everyday people, places and things. In paying tribute to the holidays, she cl ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Winter_Walk_ First Place, teen essays"Someone has to walk the dog" — and we're glad that it's Sara Hartse, who uses crisp prose, close observation and inventive im ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/I_Took_the_Red_Pill_at_Christmas First Place, teens, storiesCould Santa be a genetically modified creature under the control of aliens from outer space? Do presents get delivered on C ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/A_Clean_Slate Second Place, teen essaysMalia Byrne offers us a candid look at a New Year's resolution — and the impact it has had on her life over the past year. Or ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/The_Name_of_Winter_ Second Place (tie), teen storiesAnsel Carpenter blends fiction, fantasy and history to create a distinct moment in a universe far from — but not entir ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Between_Those_Holidays__and_Happy_Times Second Place (tie), Teen StoriesJohn Paul Valdez's bittersweet story of the relationship between a father and son indicates an ability to observe the ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/New_Year_s_Resolution Third Place (tie), teen essaysNo longer a child and not yet an adult, Sylvia Holland offers us a brave and intimate look at her inner world. As she fa ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Sledding Third Place (tie), teen essaysWhat is Christmas all about? Sledding, and getting to be a kid again, Kiera O'Brien tells us. After sharing her snow-pac ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/One_More_Blessing Third Place, teen stories A young teen's ability to vividly imagine and empathize with the emotional lives of creatures in the forest that surrounds h ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Making_Cider First Place, adult essayDonald Davenport makes fine use of dialogue and biographical detail to bring his friend, "Earl," to life. As we wait for the c ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Swift First Place, adult poetryThrough a modern-day trucker's no-nonsense persona, Mike Sutin expertly drives into the field of time. Smoothly picking up me ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Bubby_s_Christmas Second Place, adult essayLouise Diamond uses richly realized dialogue to inject humor and feeling into her remembrance of her grandmother, Bubby — a J ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Cordelia_s_Last_Christmas Second Place, adult storiesAging and loneliness can be difficult — and never more so than during the holiday season. As Betsy Burke's protagonist unwr ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Not_a_Creature_Was_Stirring Third Place, adult essayDrew Bacigalupa uses a present-day visitor to his gallery to reach back into his past, stirring memories of the ending of Worl ... Winners http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Winners/Santa_in_a_Down_Market Third Place, adult storiesEric Church frames his highly creative take on the Santa story with up-to-the-minute global financial practices and the deta ... Winners