Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 9
Publication: November 11, 2020
Pages: 220
Award Winning Essays
Troy D. Allan – Going to War (Winner)
Rick Fahr Jr. – A War Zone Question (Honorable Mention)
Cody Mower – Ghosts (Honorable Mention)
Additional Essays
Molly Huggins – It’s Complicated
James Hugo Rifenbark – Were They Safe and Are They Happy?
Jessica McFarland – Bouncing Betties
Monty Joynes – The Old Army Game
Charlie Jacobson – The Bunkers
Hope N. Griffin – One Tiny Soldier
Award Winning Poetry
Sarah Colby – Roasting Hatch Chiles (Winner)
Ryan Stovall – Tripped Up By Mefloquine (Honorable Mention)
Charity Winters – Gun Trucking (Honorable Mention)
Additional Poetry
Jessica M Granger – Your Claim Has Been Denied
Jonathan Tennis – A Lesson in Making War: Grenade Range
Jesse Frewerd – Hands Were Dealt
Zardus James – Reflections from blackened pine
Grace Dilger – Soldiers With Dogs Are Less Likely to Kill Themselves & I Need You to Answer Your Whatsapp Message
Sarah Colby – Blue Star Mother & Water Turn
Jesse Manciaz – Jungle
Michael Casey – Wild in the Street
Jordan Keller-Martinez – Thaumatrope, Here, & Intangible Presence
Jeremy H. Warneke – A Stupid Death
Juanita Kirton – Poles
Michelle Brandfass – Paintbrush Patriot
Patrick O’Regan – My Soldier, My Angel
Robert Brewer – Tracking Colonel Gaddafi
Thomas G. McGuire – Ghorbân: A Poem of Sacrifice
Delbert R. Gardner & Adele Gardner – Operation
Mitzi Dorton – Sand
Ryan Stovall – First Incision—Work Begins
Carl “Papa” Palmer – Army Buddies
Almyr L. Bump – Iram with lofty pillars
Cameron Winship – War Stories from Across the Pond
Aaron Wallace – Notes from Above the Atlantic
Fred Rosenblum – Still Smoldering After All These Years
Morgan Carlock Clark – The Navy Veteran’s Tale
Bruce Parker – Homecoming from Korea
Award Winning Photography
Anne Boaden – CH-53D Ramp Gunner (Winner)
Felicitus Ferington – A Rush to Treatment (Honorable Mention)
Bree Pye – Play (Honorable Mention)
Additional Photography
Jonathan Tennis – Afghan Sunflower
What’ll It Be – Somewhere Over Iraq
Jessica M Granger – Your Claim Has Been Denied
Bree Pye – BreakReturn – Daniel Johnson & Fighting From the Dustbowl
James Hugo Rifenbark – Members of BAT B2-19 Arty Getting Ready to Air Lift Off Fire Base Custer
Tony Craidon – Convoy
Anne Boaden – AH-1W Cobra Waiting at FOB Edinburgh
Award Winning Interviews
Charleetah Lankford – Hometown Hero: Master Gunnery Sergeant Carroll W. Braxton (Winner)
Thomas G. McGuire – Feet of the Messenger & Beyond: A Conversation with Vietnam War Veteran, Poet, and Kansas Native H.C. Palmer (Honorable Mention)
John Hornbeck – Will I Ever Sing Again? (Honorable Mention)
Additional Interviews
Pearl Farrell – Malik Prince: Nothing to Something
Kathi Mattson – William E. Hays, WWII Hump Pilot: From the B-13 Vultee Vibrator to B-727s
Award Winning Fiction
Bill Glose – What Won’t Stay Buried (Winner)
Paul Hellweg – Over the Rainbow (Honorable Mention)
Ryan Stovall – What Was Taken (Honorable Mention)
Additional Fiction
Bree Pye – Ex-Pat
Jason Gaidis – Eternal Ritual
Jay Hardin – A Day in the History of Soup
Bruce Sydow – We Were Hollywood Marines
Daniel Kendall – The Patrol
Andrew MacQuarrie – Dry Heat
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ISBN: 978-1-73-301530-1