October 25, 2006

9:58 AM MT

Done and ...

So I've finished my (perhaps) last updates to Bill's List. I say "perhaps" since I might return to Bill's List of Literary Agents and Their Authors' Books in the future, but right now I'm in the phase of battening down the hatches on my business so that the mighty ship WRHAMMONS.COM can cruise on autopilot while I'm focused on other things.

So, til November 2008, things will stand as they are. Now off to the gym...

October 16, 2006

5:33 PM MST

The winners of the 2006 Hammons Prizes for Poetry and Short Fiction are as follows (please note that neither the winners nor any other contestants have any affiliation with the Unity Party of America mentioned above):

Poetry, 1st Place: POEM FOR A BRACELET LOST ON A NIGHTCLUB FLOOR by Kimberly Brittingham

Poetry, 2nd Place: When I was Six by Lotus

Poetry, 3rd Place: Rooms by David Walper

Fiction, 1st Place: Waiting by Lee Hawkins

Fiction, 2nd Place: Tangled Satellite by Sommer Cullingford

Fiction, 3rd Place: Waste by Mark Ellis

All winners will have links to their MySpace profiles posted on the WRHAMMONS.COM home page (at least for a while), have the text of their winning entries posted in the Forums section of WRHAMMONS.COM, and have their MySpace profiles displayed in the WRHAMMONS.COM Top 24. In addition the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each category will receive awards of $75, $50, and $25 US respectively; all winners should email me at bill@wrhammons.com at their earliest convenience to provide either their email address for PayPal payment or their mailing address for payment by check. Please note in your email if you wish to have your real and/or complete name included with your entry (providing that name would help as well).