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The Talking Stick Volume: Seventeen

Table Of Contents

Luke Anderson
Kate Beaver
Betty J Benner
Nicole Berg
Laura Bjerk
Louise Bottrell
Andrew Scott Browers
Rosa Carlisle
Suzanne Cecere
Becky Chakov
Jean Childers
Jan Chronister
Sandra Clough
Patricia Conner
Chet Corey
Sarah J Cox
Cindy M Davis
Charmaine Pappas – Donovan
Lois West Duffy
Anne M Dunn
Neil Dyer
Toni Bennett Easterson
C Ekren
Solveig Engh
Marilyn P Groenke
Todd Gulliver
Tracy Gulliver
Richard G Hagen
Laura L Hansen
Sharon Harris
Dennis Herschbach
Maryjude Hoeffel
Marion C Holtey
Harold Huber
Rhoda Jackson
Kristin F Johnson
Linda M Johnson
Celayne Jones
Rhea Kahn
Miriam Karmel
Janice Kimes
Sonja Kosler
Viola LaBounty
Beth Lappinga
David Larson
Julie C Larson
Kathleen Lindstrom
Renee Loehr
Peggy Ludtke
C Mannheim
Barbara Marshak
Linda Back McKay
Marianne McNamara
Kathryn Kirmis – Medellin
Judy Merritt
Jerry Mevissen
Megan Mevissen
Joanne Moren
Susan Wolter Nettell
Traci Nigon
Debbie Pea
Kathleen J Pettit
Niomi Rohn Phillips
Karsten Piper
Marsha C Porter
Adrian S Potter
Mary Lynn Regnier
Catherine Ritchie
Jim Russell
Katherine Schaefer
Elizabeth Schmitt
Larry Schug
Duane Schwartz
Richard Sederstrom
Candace Simar
Stacey Skinness
Patricia Spilseth
Susan K Spindler
Doris Stengel
Thomas C Stetzler
Scott Stewart
Marlene Mattila Stoehr
Connie Claire Szarke
Dawn Tanner
Vern Thompson
John H Thornberg
Jeanne Marie Troge
Jere Truer
Susan Niemela – Vollmer
Richard Walker
Beth Bradley Walter
Jeanne Houbolt Weber
LuAnne White
Joan Wiesner
Marilyn Wolff
Tarah L Wolff

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The Talking Stick Volume Seventeen
Published: 2008
Paperback

WINNER OF POETRY
when things get back to normal
by: Nicole Berg

WINNER OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
Revisiting the Great Raid
by: Vern Thompson

WINNER OF FICTION
Gone. Fishing.
by: Susan Wolter Nettell

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The Jackpine Writers’ Bloc is native to Minnesota. We are a writing group as well as a publishing company. Our literary journal, The Talking Stick, has become a state-wide publishing ground for amateur and experienced writers alike. Our goal in publishing writers is simple – we publish to encourage solid writing that shows promise, creativity and brilliance.