http://www.playboy.com/announcements/fiction-winners.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Ian Catnor, 23, a senior in the honors program at the University of Rhode Island, won the $500 second prize for "Kitimat."
Four $200 third prizes were awarded this year. They went to J.M. Barron, 21, a senior at Indiana State University at Bloomington ("Nine Letters"); Patricia Lawrence, 25, a graduate student at the University of Iowa Workshop ("The Pledge"); David R. Posman, 39, a student at the Community College of Rhode Island ("Coughin' Up the Bit"); and Robert Sivigny, 22, a senior at the State University of New York, Genesee ("Digging").
This is the eleventh year of Playboy's contest, which attracts short story manuscripts from students at colleges and universities all over the world. Many of the winners have gone on to publish professionally, both novels and short stories, and one of the first-place winning stories ("The Madison Heights Syndrome," by A.M. Wellman, October 1989) was expanded first into a novel, "SFW" (Random House), then into a movie of the same name.
The annual writing competition, open to all registered undergraduate and graduate students regardless of age, is the only collegiate fiction contest sponsored by a national magazine.
Entries for the 1997 contest will be accepted between September 1, 1996 and January 1, 1997. For further details check the rules or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: College Fiction Contest, Playboy, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019.
