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The winners of the seventh annual RAWI Competition in Creative Prose are:

 First:  Sahar Kayyal, "An Unruly Life"

 Second:  Huda Al-Marashi Jaffer, "An Illiterate Death"

Third:  Angele Ellis, "Desert Storms"

 Congratulations to the winners!

Special thanks to Alice Nashashibi, who sponsored and organized the competition, and our contest judges, Barbara Bedway, Pauline Kaldas, and Frances Khirallah Noble.  We received numerous quality entries this year, indicative of the impressive level of talent in the Arab American literary community.