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Winners
Winners Aquillrelle Contest 1
M. Lee Alexander
 M. Lee Alexander’s work has appeared in a variety of journals including The MacGuffin, Litchfield Review, Niederngasse, and Eleventh Muse. Her poems have won prizes including Finalist for the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award 2005, 1st Honorable Mention Yeats Society Poetry Award, 2007, short-listed for Bridport Prize 2008, and winner of the Yeovil Literary Prize 2009 for which the judge was current UK Poet Laureate Carol Anne Duffy. She’s performed her poetry sometimes with jazz accompaniment in DC and the mid-Atlantic region. Her chapbook Observatory was published by Finishing Line Press in 2007 and her second book Folly Bridge is in process. She teaches creative writing at William and Mary and resides in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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W. Jude Aher
 40 years a poet, from a time hippies and anti-war rage, from a time when a child becomes an artist not for the money but because the universe and beauty called. though broken and disabled he more then survives. a poet doesn't just write, he lives his art.
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Lynn Veach Sadler
 Former college president Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler has published widely in academics and creative writing. Editor, poet, fiction/creative nonfiction writer, and playwright, she has published four chapbooks; has two more and a full-length collection in press; and won The Pittsburgh Quarterly’s Hay Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Hemley Award, and Asphodel’s Poetry Contest and tied for first place in Kalliope’s Elkind Contest. One story appears in Del Sol’s Best of 2004 Butler Prize Anthology; another, about Patrick Swayze, won the 2006 Abroad Writers Contest/Fellowship (France). A novel will soon join her novella and short-story collection, and she was named 2007 Writer of the Year by California’s elizaPress. She won the 2009 overall award (poetry and fiction) of the San Diego City College National Writer’s Contest and City Works Journal. A play on Frost was a Pinter Review Prize for Drama Silver Medalist, and she won the 2008 Pearson Award at Wayne State for Second-Time-Around, a play on the Iraq wars. She has traveled around the world five times, writing all the way, and now works full-time as a creative writer and an editor.
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