Past Winners

CCW 2023 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Grace Quon for All in the Family
Second Place: Wynn Quon for What the Boy Said
Third Place: Kathy MacLellan for The Mer Bleue Bog Body

CCW 2022 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Jennifer Jorgensen for Chance
Second Place: Grace Quon for Best Served Cold
Third Place: Adrienne Stevenson for A Tough Nut
Honourable Mention: Pamela Isfeld for Background
Honourable Mention: Maya Valenzuela for Masked Hysteria

CCW 2021 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Wynn Quon for Final Jeopardy
Second Place: Jennifer Jorgensen for The Price of a Desk
Third Place: Megan Taylor for Property Values
Honourable Mention: Nancy Pawelek for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Morgue
Honourable Mention: Jason Bourdeau for Passing Judgment

CCW 2020 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Adrienne Stevenson for I Smell a Mystery
Second Place: Wynn Quon for Midnight at Rocky’s
Third Place: Kevin Coleman for Confidential Donation
Honourable Mention: Joe Sornberger for The Perseids
Honourable Mention: Ruth Latta for Sometimes Crime Pays

CCW 2019 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Wynn Quon for Art in Pieces
Second Place: Adrienne Stevenson for Nocebo
Third Place: Jennifer Jorgensen for Amber’s Tea BeLeaf Readings
Honourable Mention: Theresa Wallace for Follow the Money
Honourable Mention: Nick Ashton for Hollow-point Handshake

CCW 2018 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Carolyn Inch for Three Sides to the Story
Second Place: Andrew Kohut for Frank’s Wife
Third Place: Wynn Quon for Bronwyn
Honourable Mention: Adrienne Stevenson for Naomi Wise
Honourable Mention: Jennifer Jorgensen for King by Any Other Name

CCW 2017 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Theresa Ann Wallace for Scar Tissue
Second Place: Pam Isfeld for What She Knew
Third Place: Wynn Quon for Anything But Retail

 CCW 2016  SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Andrew Kohut for Trouble with Numbers
Second Place: Wynn Quon for Haslau
Third Place: Joe Italiano for On the Job
Honourable Mention: James Portman for The Legacy
Honourable Mention: Morgan Duchesney for Wrong Side of the River

CCW 2015 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Jennifer Jorgensen for Revenge By Any Other Name…
Second Place: Wynn Quon for The Caretaker
Third Place: Gladys Galay for Snow Day
Honourable Mention: Ken Nyhuus for Urban Renewal
Honourable Mention: Tavis Maplesden for The Unsolvable Case of Somebody’s Finger

CCW 2014 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Kristina Stanley for When a Friendship Fails
Second Place: Wynn Quon for The Moment It Fell
Third Place: Linda Standing for The Ride Home
Honourable Mention: Jennifer Jorgensen for Act the Part
Honourable Mention: Nicholas Ashton for Scapegoat

CCW 2013  SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Wynn Quon for The Outsider
Second Place: Cynthia Syme for An Improbable Meeting
Third Place: Jennifer Jorgensen for Bus 66 to Nowhere
Honourable Mention: R.L. Brennan for Trifecta
Honourable Mention: Jeff Ross for Amends

CCW 2012 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: John Haas for Til Death
Second Place: Jane Watson for At Rest with the Lord
Third Place: Jennifer Jorgensen for The Neighbours
Honourable mention: Elizabeth Hosang for One Last Job
Honourable mention: Adrienne Stevenson for Rebecca Sorts Things Out

CCW 2011 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Megan Taylor for Spring Runoff.
Second Place: Wynn Quon for Seeds of Suspicion.
Third Place: Silvia Neuteboom for The Cutblock.
Honourable mention: Pam Isfeld for The Great Plotter
Honourable mention: Maggie Taylor for A Little Harmless Flirtation.

CCW 2010 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place: Wynn Quon for That’s Entertainment
Second Place: Joe Italiano
Third Place: R. L. Brennan
Honourable Mention: Maggie Taylor
Honourable Mention: Bill Newman

CCW 2009 SHORT STORY WINNERS
First Place: Kate Jaimet for Swisha
Second Place: Mike Strong for The Scoreboard
Third Place: Caroline Wissing for Gemini
Honourable Mention: Sylvia Braithwaite for Prose and Potions
Honourable Mention: Nancy Pawelek for The Incident in Bytown

CCW 2008 SHORT STORY WINNERS:
First Place: Brenda Chapman for Evening the Score
Second Place: Sylvia Braithwaite for Fortune’s Fool
Third Place: William Newman for Queen’s Pawn Gambit
Honourable Mention: Ken Gibson for Clee Shay’s Dog Day Afternoon
Honourable Mention: Ken McBeath for Hard Case

CCW 2007 SHORT STORY WINNERS:
First Place: Mike Strong for Just one of the Guys
Second Place: Gail McDonald
Third Place: Ken McBeath
Honorable Mention: Jane Watson
Honorable Mention: Sheila Gallant-Halloran