Winners of First Person Impressions 2008

Filed under:Competitions — posted by admin on October 10, 2008 @ 10:29 am

The winners for the 2008 First Person Impressions competitions have been selected:

Memoir
1st place:  Cushing’s Final Essay, Frances Grote.
2nd place: The Wishing Chair, Sylvia M. DeSantis.
3rd place: The Palazzo, Gail Wilkinson.
Honorable Mention: Walled City, Ed Weinberg

Video
1st place: Work in Progress, Sarah Ginsburg.
2nd place: Route 66, Carter Liotta.
3rd place: The Amazing Barry Silver, Andrew David Watson
Honorable Mention: Mr. America, J. Michael Whalen.

Photo
1st place: Megan Rossman
2nd place: Nicolas Silberfaden.
3rd place: Sarah Barr

No honorable mention was awarded in the photography competition.

See the winning work for the first time at First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art:

Buy tickets right here!

Best Impressions
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 12th
Time: 7-8PM
Location: Painted Bride
Cost: $10

3 comments »

  1. Looking forweard to meeting my winning colleagues and getting into the city for a real live vegetarian cheesesteak (yeah, I know, I know, save the snark…)! ;-)

    Comment by Sylvia D. — October 10, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

  2. This sounds so cool. I hope to visit your city and attend one of these events someday soon.

    Comment by kim — October 13, 2008 @ 6:14 am

  3. You can read some of my first person stories here-
    http://www.myspace.com/madwomanzblog

    Comment by kim — October 13, 2008 @ 6:15 am

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