 Christie Cochrell |
Christie Cochrell of Los Altos has won the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Creative Nonfiction Award in the 19th annual literary awards competition held by New Letters, the international quarterly magazine of writing and art published by the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Cochrell’s piece, “Iona,” was judged by Brian Doyle, author of four essay collections and editor of Portland Magazine.
Doyle said, “‘Iona’ is a mosaic, a collection of shards making a whole.”
The literary contest attracts entries from both emerging and established writers in all 50 states and around the world.
All entries were judged anonymously. First-place winners each receive $1,000 and publication in the winter 2005 issue of the magazine.
