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     Evelyn Dilworth-Williams
    Second place and honorable mention for poetry, adult category
    Entries: "Painted Water" and "Black Mother Cries"     

    
    Matthew P. Requa
    Third place for poetry, adult category
    Entry: "22 White Doves"    

The 2006 winners represent the states of Alabama, Maryland (near Washington DC), and Rhode Island.

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    Sherlock Griffith
    Second place, adult category
    Entry: "Silence is Only Freedom's Pause"    

    
    Joanava McDaniel
    Third place, adult category
    Entry: "Awakening"    

    
    Cierra M. Robinson
    First place, youth 12-18 category
    Entry: "Brown Beauty"    
    Honorable mention place, youth 12-18 category
    Entry: "American Dream"    

    
    Brandi L. Hargette
    Second place, youth 12-18 category
    Entry: "Home of the Free"    

    
    Callistus Eluagu
    Honorable mention, adult category
    Entry: "Invocation of Brotherhood"    

    
    Marie Henry
    Honorable mention, adult category
    Entry: "Rebirth" and "Nataki"    

    
    Valton DeJuan Jackson
    Honorable mention, adult category
    Entry: "Indeed"    

    
    Kevin A. Stewart
    Honorable mention, adult category
    Entry: "My First Day"    

    
    Angela Young-Richie
    Honorable mention, adult category
    Entry:"You Made Me Mad"    

*Because we did not receive enough qualifying entries, we did not give awards in the 2005 Africana Homestead Short Fiction Contest, nor in certain categories in the 2005 Africana Homestead Poetry Contest.

Our ten winners reside in seven states, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas and were born in three countries, the United States of America, Barbados, and Nigeria.

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    Rachel E. Griffiths
    First place, adult category
    Entry: "Like White"    

    
    Cassandra L. Manuel
    Second place, adult category
    Entry: "My Sister's Keeper"    
    Honorable mention, adult category
    Entry: "The Story of Tina"    

    
    Cassandra L. Manuel
    First place, adult category
    Entry: "Just Asking"    
    Honorable mention, adult category
    Entry: "Predators"    

    
    Adrianne K. Scott
    Second place, adult category
    Entry: "Freedom"    

Three of our 2004 winners reside in Delaware, and two in New Jersey. All were born in the United States of America. This was the first year of the contest and the only year when we restricted entries to residents of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

To read the authors' prize-winning stories, buy Visions of Black Life: A Collection of Outstanding Short Stories and Poetry, Volume I May 2005