OUR LITERARY AWARDS – CIRCA 2022

The 26^th Ojo Awards Luncheon

After a hiatus of 2 years, the latest luncheon which drew well over seventy people was one of our best ever.

To our winners-heartiest congratulations, and to the other nominees, we send along our thanks and say to them: Wait’ll Next year!

Best Humor:

•   Neil McKinnon for “Pains, Trains, and Wildfires.”
•   Tom Nussbaum for “Can You Hear Me Now?”
•   Larry Kolczak for “Fidelity, Wherefore Art Thou?”

Best Profile:

• Keira Morgan for: “Rachel McMillen a Life of Sea Changes.”
• Shelly Stokes for: “Service with Love”
• Daria Hilton for: “Maria Del Carmen Romero Avina”

Best Fiction:

• Maggie Van Ostrand for “Juanta and the President”
• Ardelle Holden for “The Soldier and the Scarf”
• Margaret Van Every for “The Post Office Makes Three.”
• Mel Goldberg for “Mimi Learns to Bargain”
• Robert Bruce Drynan for “The Night of the Gypsy Boy”

The Best Poem

• Susa Silvermarie
• Judy Dykstra-Brown
• Marty Bojan
• John Thomas Dodds for the poem: ¿Que paso?

Best Column:

• Lakeside Living by Carol Bradley
• Life in the Laugh Lane by Scott Jason Jones
• Vexations & Conundrums by Katina Pontikes

And we have a tie:  Carol Bradley for Lakeside Living and Katina Pontinkes for Vexations & Conundrums

Best Feature:

• The Magic of Lakeside by Don Buedreau
• The Small Town That Produced a President Dr. Lorin Swinehart
• The Fun Side of the Wall; Baby Boomer Retirement in MX by Blue
• Where is Little Martin by Sergio Casas

Best Historical:

• Michael Hogan: “The Soldiers of St. Patrick”
• Herbert Piekow: “TheTruth about Pancho Villa”
• Dale Hoyt Palfrey: “The World’s Longest Love Affair”

Best Book Review:

• Jeanine Kitchel: “The Jungle of Stone.”
• Herbert Piekow: “Living is No Laughing Matter” by L. Michael Hogan
• Kathy Koches: “The Mexico Lunch Party”

Best Mexican Cultural:

• “The Night of the Dead”- Lives on in Patzcuaro. By Carol Bowman
• “The Conquest of Mexico – Re-examined” by Shep Lencheck
• “Celebrating dia de los Inpendencia bby Patricia Guy

LONG-TIME CORRESPONDENT:   

• Janice Kimball 2009

Lifetime Achievement Award: 

Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez 32 years as the Editor-in-Chief of the Ojo del Lago.