Public Safety Writers Association Writing Competition 

2007 PSWA Writing Conference Winners

This year’s conference was fantastic.  With 40 entries, our judges were able to read a variety of our member’s best work.  All of the judges felt honored to be a part of this competition.  We had entries of fiction and nonfiction, published and non-published, technical writing, books and articles.  Our winners are listed below.  We had two Grand Prize winners: Craig Saari’s non-published fiction book The Mile Marker Murders and Volitta Fritsche’s non-published short story “Routine Patrol”.  Mr Saari received a $1099  publishing package donated by iUniverse.  Ms. Fritsche received a writer’s package donated by Law Enforcement Technology.  Thank you to our sponsors, our judges, and our fantastic members.   

The Winners

Non-Fiction/Article/Published
     
Robert Cohen  “The Avianca Police”      First Place
Tim Dees   “The Deceptive Trainer” Second Place
Liz Martinez “Real-Life Recruiting”  Third Place
Tim Dees    “Cop Watch”  Honorable Mention
     
Non-Fiction/Short Story/Non-Published
     
Volitta Fritsche  “Routine Patrol”  First Place/Grand Prize
Volitta Fritsche   “Cops in Hot Water”  Honorable Mention
     
Non-Fiction/Book/Published
     
John Cassara    Hide & Seek  First Place
Janice Law   Yield: A Judge’s Fir$t-Year Diary  Honorable Mention
     
Technical Writing/Published    
     
John Bellah “2006 Police Fleet Expo”  First Place
John Bellah  “Oil Change Intervals”  Second Place
Tim Dees  “Powerpoint for Public Safety Professionals”  Third Place
John Bellah  “Front-End Alignment Basics”  Honorable Mention
     
Fiction/Short Story/Published
Liz Martinez   “Freddie Prinz is my Guardian Angel”   First Place
W. K. Brown  “The Unknown”  Second Place
W.K. Brown  “Where is it”   Honorable Mention
     
Fiction/Short Story/Non-Published
Sunny Frazier   “Armed and Irritated”    First Place
Sunny Frazier   “Hangnail”  Second Place
     
Fiction/Book/Published
     
Sunny Frazier  Fools Rush In   First Place
W.K. Brown  Tunnel Vision  Second Place
     
Fiction/Book/Non-Published    
Craig Saari     The Mile Marker Murders  First Place/Grand Prize
Leonard Schonberg Ripple Effect   Second Place

Results of the 2006 Writing Competition

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