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The Talking Stick Volume: Sixteen

Table Of Contents

Luke Anderson
Angela L. Beaumont
Roy C. Booth
Louise Bottrell
Andrew Scott Browers
Jodi Buchan
Jamie Buehner
Rosa Carlisle
Richard Carr
Jean Childers
Patricia Conner
Frances Ann Crowley
Charmaine Donovan
Harriet Duerre
Anne M. Dunn
Toni Bennett Easterson
Sandra Edlund
Cynthia Ekren
Shirley Ensrud
Kathleen Free
Crystal Gibbins
Peggy Glynn
Margaret Mary Gorman, SSND
Ronald Gower
Todd Gulliver
Tracy Gulliver
Richard G. Hagen
Laura L. Hansen
Sharon Harris
Margaret Hasse
David Henke
Kathy Herzog
Brenda Hill
Marion C. Holtey
Harold Huber
Annette Marie Hyder
Barbara Jacksha
Rhoda Jackson
Russell W. Jacobson
Linda M. Johnson
Julia Klebs
Anja Kuehne-Welsh
Julie C. Larson
Sandra Jane Larson
Jane Levin
Kathleen Lindstrom
C. Mannheim
Linda Back McKay
Marianne McNamara
Kathryn Kirmis Medellin
Jerry Mevissen
Joanne Moren
Anne Morgan
Anne Musial
Sharon Ness
Susan Wolter Nettell
Traci Nigon
Debbie Pea
Kathleen J. Pettit
Niomi Rohn Phillips
Karsten Piper
Adrian S. Potter
Lorna Rafness
Mary Lynn Regnier
Catherine Ritchie
Lane Rosenthal
William Schmitt
Christopher Schmitz
Larry Schug
Peter Schwarz
Richard Sederstrom
Judy Sladek
Pat Spilseth
Susan K. Spindler
Doris Stengel
Thomas C. Stetzler
Scott Stewart
Marlene Mattila Stoehr
Penelope Swan
Connie Claire Szarka
John H. Thornberg
Jere Truer
Susan Niemela Vollmer
Beth Bradley Walter
Jeanne Weber
Bonnie West
LuAnne White
Marilyn Wolff
Tarah L. Wolff

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The Talking Stick Volume Sixteen
Published: 2007
Paperback

WINNER OF POETRY
shrapnel
by: Kathleen Lindstrom

WINNER OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
How Mother Came to Float Down the St. Croix
by: Peter Schwarz

WINNER OF FICTION
Because
by: Barbara Jacksha

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