Congrats to the Winners and Finalists of the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom

Although my novella The Act of Theft came up short as a finalist in the 2014 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, and two of my novels A Perfect Day for an Expat Exit (finalist 2012) and The Lonely Affair (The Resurrection of Jonathan Brady) were short-list finalists for the 2014 Novel category, congrats to the winners and the other finalists and all those who took part. 
Again, this was the fourth time that one of my works has made it the Faulkner-Wisdom finals in four categories:  novel, novel-in-progress, novella and short story (“Malaysian Games”,  runner up in 2007).
Winners for the Novella:1st place:  Give Me You by Kay Sloan, Cincinnati, OH2nd place:  Tickfaw to Shongaloo by Dixon Hearne, Madison, MS
Finalists:A Different Life by Philip Erickson, St. Paul, MNCold War by Farah Halime, Brooklyn, NYFurther by Deborah Jannerson, New Orleans, LAJuanita by Kent Dixon, Springfield, OH Not the Usual Sleep by Tim Knowles, Brewster, NYResistance by Amina Gautier, Chicago, ILTansy by William Thrift, Columbia, SCThe Act of Theft by Robert Raymer, Kuching, Sarawak, MalaysiaThe Little Girls by Lori Fennell, Lake in the Hills, IL  The Year We Froze by Stan Kempton, New Orleans, LA Witness by Melanie Naphine, Frankston, Victoria, AustraliaYankees Angels by Robert H. Cox, New York, NY
        Winners for the novel: 1st place:  Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradel, Los Angeles, CA2nd place:  The Talented Tenth by Ladee Hubbard, Champaign, ILL3rd place:  The Invention of Violet by Amy Boutell, Santa Barbara, CA4th place:   Sunrise for Asphodel by Dan Turtel, New York, NY
Finalists:Advice for the Wicked by Glen Pitre, New Orleans, LAA Stone for Bread by Miriam Herin, Greensboro, NC Mask of Sanity by Jacob Appel, New York, NYScoop the Loop by Charles Holdefer, Brussels, Belgium The Lenin Plot by Barnes Carr, Houston, TX The Truth Project by Tad Bartlett, New Orleans and L. Ed Marston, Chattanooga, TN
                —Borneo Expat Writer 

*Links to my website, to MPH online for orders for all three of my books, including my latest, Spirit of Malaysia and to the French translation of Lovers and Strangers Revisited, Trois autres Malaisie.  Thanks!