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2010 Open City RRofihe Trophy Winner Amy Bonnaffons' Story Published...

Read the 2010 OPEN CITY RRofihe Trophy
Short Story Contest Winner HERE:
"The Wrong Heaven" by AMY BONNAFFONS
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...

Amy Bonnaffons holds a BA in literature from Yale University and an MFA in fiction writing from New York University. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches writing, sings Balkan folk music, and works on her first book of short stories. "The Wrong Heaven" is the 2010 Winner of the Open City RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest http://opencity.org/2010/12/the-2010-...


Note: The complete 2010 results are posted on the new Open City RRofihe Trophy pages:
http://opencity.org/2010/12/the-2010-...
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy

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There were exactly 200 entries in the 2010 Open City Magazine RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest.

The Winning Writer is Amy C. Bonnaffons of New York City for her story "The Wrong Heaven".
She will receive a prize of $500, a trophy, and publication of the story in Open City #31.

The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Runner-Up is Mac Barrett of Brooklyn, New York for his story "We Call This Living; or, Ghosts".

The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Special-Mention Stories (2) are:
"This Was Going to Work Out Fine" by Barbara Arno Modrack" of Brighton, Michigan.
"Baboon" by Jan Stinchcomb of Austin, Texas.

The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Top-Ten Stories include:
"The Airplane Hangar" by Anelise Chen of New York City.
"Release" by M.E. Parker of McKinney, Texas.
"An Incident at the Plaza" by Elizabeth Kadetsky of New York City.
"One of the Funner Parties I Have Been To" by Katya Apekina of St Louis, Missouri.
"Scared" by Adeola Adeniyi of Brooklyn, New York.
"Perfect Soup" by Olivia Shih of New York City.

The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Top-Twenty Finalist Stories included entries from:
Annie DeWitt of Brooklyn, New York; Meakin Armstrong of New York City; Michael Di Gesu of Chicago, Illinois; Victoria Moon of New York City; Tamela J. Ritter of Haymarket, Virginia; Rashanna Rashied-Walker of Brooklyn, New York; Elizabeth Richards of New York City; Lindsay Allen of New Orleans, Louisiana; Brent Shearer of New York City, and, Jessica Pishko of New York City.
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Anderbo is doing a Reading @ KGB Bar in NYC Wed, April 27th, 7-9 pm

Anderbo.com is doing a Reading @ KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St, NYC on Wednesday, April 27th from 7 to 9 p.m.

Announced readers:

TUMI JOHNSON was raised in Ibadan, Nigeria and Nashville, Tennessee. She is a physician, dancer and poet, and has been published in Number One, Radically Shifted, and in the Annals of Internal Medicine. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
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MAC BARRETT's fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Salt Hill Journal, Hanging Loose, on the radio for WBAI, and at Salon.com. He works as an associate producer for CUNY TV and lives in present-day Brooklyn and 1920's Paris.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...

MARIA MODROVICH is a Slovak writer and freelance journalist. She lives in NYC and writes for magazines in Slovakia. She is currently working on a novel.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
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Anderbo Contributing Editor AZIZ FRIEDRICH is a graduate of The Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, and of New York University's Gallatin School, where he studied "Writing the Fragment" and "The Letter as Literature" with Professor Victoria Blythe; he also studied there with the writer Ed Park. Aziz is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com and is working on a novel. He is also a Contributing Editor of the literary magazine Open City.
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LAUREN WATERMAN is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose nonfiction has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, New York and Boston Magazine; her fiction has appeared online on MonkeyBicycle. She has an M.F.A. in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence, and she is (hard) at work on a novel.
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Anderbo Contributing Editor WAYNE CONTI's short stories appear online on Pindeldyboz and Anderbo, and in Open City magazine. Wayne is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com, and is the proprietor of Mercer Street Books & Records in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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JENNIFER HANKS is an Anderbo Editor at Large. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She enjoys writing poems about sunken ships and is torn between pursuing a career in publishing or marine biology.
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Anderbo Editor-in-Chief RICK ROFIHE will read from his memoirs, which explain how various accomplished individuals, including Donald Sutherland, Johnny Cash, Lee Strasberg, Gloria Vanderbilt and Colonel Harland Sanders, have affected his own life and work.
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
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Several Anderbo Editors will co-host the reading. See the masthead @
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/amast...

Anderbo.com thanks OpenCity.org Magazine & Books' Joanna Yas for tossing their APRIL KGB night to us.
Catch their MARCH KGB reading on Wednesday, March 30th
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/ope...
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Anderbo scores 3 Notable Story picks

Anderbo scores 3 storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story picks --

"Ghosts" by Mac Barrett;
"Monologue" by Juliet Grames;
"Clarins" by Courtney Maum

http://www.storysouth.com/millionwrit...
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