2001 GRAND PRIZE WINNER:

Nowhere Man -- Craig Clyde: Salt Lake City, UT

An old German man with a painting, a computer hacker with a disk, a prostitute, a Senator's daughter.  Someone is killing them all.  The 
same "someone" who is bent on destroying the world's greatest art treasures. And no one knows why. No one, except Jack O'Neill...and he doesn't know - he knows.

Contact: Craig Clyde, email

2nd Place: The Promise  -- Ron Berger & Walt Ulbricht: Whitewater, WI

The true story of two teenage brothers, the sons of a smalltown tailor in
Poland, who make a promise to each other and their murdered father to
survive the Holocaust and reunite in America.  One brother is trapped
inside the concentration camps and must later endure a horrific death march from Auschwitz while the other conceals his Jewish identity outside the camps as he fights against the Germans with a group of Polish partisans. 

Contact: Ron Berger / Walt Ulbricht, email

3rd Place: The Columnist -- L. A. Butler: Los Angeles, CA

Francis DuPar burns the nightly oil as a newspaper columnist in 1960's Oklahoma. She yearns to write about more than pigs-in-a blanket or rhubarb pie and gets her wish - a full scale peccadillo involving the Pastor of the town and somone not his wife. When Francis courageously utilizes her column to expose the Pastor, her loyal readers respond with her condemnation and ridicule, until their vulgar behaviour is interrupted only by a horrible national tragedy-a tragedy the forces Francis from the smallness of Idabel, Oklahoma, to the largeness of a presidential assasination.

Contact: L. A. Butler, email

4th Place: Hit On Me -- Shona Tuckman: Parkland, FL

After a failed "hit", an obsessive compulsive hit-woman gives up killing for
a living and settles down to a "normal" life. When her husband leaves her
for another woman, with a young son to raise and bills to pay, what choice
does she have but to face her fears about returning to the business?

Contact: Shona Tuckman, email

5th Place: Charmed Lives -- Michael Sinoway: Duluth, GA

A New York City stripper finds a small, dirty fabric swatch taped to the bottom of a public phone. This random discovery plunges her into an international conspiracy attempting to clone Christ from blood samples left on the Shroud of Turin.

Contact: Michael Sinoway, email

5th Place: Act of Betrayal -- Simon Levy: Los Angeles, CA

The story of how Benedict Arnold saves the American Revolution, weds a British sympathizer and works to repair his shattered finances. Wronged by betrayal, politics and the press, Benedict struggles with the fundamentals underlying the American cause and decides, with the help of his wife and his position at West Point, to commit his own act of betrayal that turns him into an infamous traitor and the most hated man in America.

Contact: Simon Levy, email