TRACKS Story Wins Prize in MWA Fiction Contest

The Maryland Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2007 Short Works Contest.

In the fiction category, the winners, as published on the MWA website, are:

First Place: Vicki Fang for “The Little Girl Who Thought She Could Shoot Down the Moon”

Second Place: Allison McCarthy for “Road Veins”

Third Place: Eric D. Goodman for “The Stein”

All winners received complimentary admission to the popular Maryland Writers’ Conference.

“The Stein” is the same story that Eric D. Goodman recently read on National Public Radio. It is an abridged version of “A Good Beer Needs a Good Stein” from TRACKS, a novel in stories.

You can listen to the NPR reading of “The Stein” in the story below this one.