Prose Pieces

PAST PROSE STATE/SECTIONAL WINNING TITLES (Results were taken from Illinois’ Sectional Tournament. Since the results only list the title, finding the author/link was not always possible.)

2006-2007 (STATE FINALISTS)
Do You Want My Opinion? by M. E. Kerr (in Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults)
Men Are Stupid and I Rock! an Ode to Dorothy Parker by Laurie Notaro (in The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Picnic at Treblinka by Susan Jane Gilman (in Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress)
Violets

2007-2008 (STATE FINALISTS)
Kissing Lessons by Caragh O’brien
My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry by Sandra Shamas
Explaining Death to the Dog by Susan Perabo
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Absolutely, Positively Not by David LaRochelle
Life in the Hot Seat by Caroline Burau
Finalist: Standing on a Rooftop Naked by Francess Lantz

2008-2009 (STATE FINALISTS)
Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway
How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner and Overcame the Tribulations of Illiteracy, One Snickers Bar at a Time by Sufjan Stevens
An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love by Richard Carlson and Kristine Carlson
A November Farewell
Alumni Interview by David Levithan
Finalist: Not A Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland

2009-2010 (STATE FINALISTS)
Right Off the Bat by William Frederick Kirk
Show Business by Shashi Tharoor
Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin
Fur is Back
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather Armstrong

2010-2011 (STATE FINALISTS)
Marigolds by Eugenia Collier
The Gift Horse
The Perfect Love Story
Fur is Back
Where I Slept

2011-2012 (STATE FINALISTS)
Letting Go of God? by Julia Sweeney
Rules by Cynthia Lord
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmeln
Silhouettes
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin

2012-2013 (STATE FINALISTS)
Sam the Cat by Matthew Klam
What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? by Etgar Keret
Fox 8 by George Saunders
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

2006-2007 (SECTIONAL FINALISTS)
Why I Wore Lipstick by Geralyn Lucas
After the Wink by Carolyn Steele Agosta
Lost At C by Jean Shephard (from A Fistful of Fig Newtons)
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman (from Love in Vein II)
I Almost Kissed My Father Last Night
A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher (from Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories)
Boys by Pamela Hanson
Dancing Backwards (multiple titles this might match, however the one by Forrest Christensen seems most apt)
I Want the Quiet Moments of a Party Girl by Joe Meno (from "Demons in the Spring")
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
. . . Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

2007-2008 (SECTIONAL FINALISTS)
A Plague of Tics by David Sedaris (from Naked)
Forgiveness (from The Terrible Girls) by Rebecca Brown
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler
Having Our Say by Sarah L. Delany
Super Assassin
Deadline
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Glory Goes and Gets Some by Emily Carter
I Like Guys by David Sedaris (from Naked)
Scared Straight (could be this book by Dr. Robert N. Minor; not positive though)
Guide to Being A Groupie by Lisa Gabriele

2008-2009 (SECTIONAL FINALISTS)
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
The Broken Letter by Carl Lawrence
Essay#3: Leda & the Swan by Eric Puchner (from Music Through the Floor: Stories)
Never Been Dissed Until Now by Shad Powers (from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III: More Stories of Life, Love and Learning (Chicken Soup for the Soul))
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Hatching Hope
The Isabel Fish by Julie Orringer (from How to Breath Underwater)
Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
Almost Normal by Ann Kolsrud
The Center of the Universe: Yep That's Me! by Anita Liberty
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom with Elizabeth Sherrill and John Sherrill
Out There
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
Waiting For Her by Amina Henry
Breathing for a living: a memoir by Laura Rothenberg

2009-2010 (SECTIONAL FINALISTS)
A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon
Stolen Moments
Last Requests
The Good Guy
Lena
Knocking on Heaven's Door
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Ivy Briefs by Martha Kimes
Skyrockets
Perseverance- True Voices of Cancer Survivors by Carolyn Rubenstein
Yes Means Yes by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
Dragging the Dog
The Perfect Kiss
Rex

2015-2016 (SECTIONAL FINALISTS)
Almost Normal by Ann Kolsrud
700 Sundays by Billy Crystal
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Dear Dumb Diary #1) by Jim Benton
Perfect Moments by Brenda Jackson
Pretend You're Good at It
A Portion of your Loveliness by Amy Bloom
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara
I Want the Quiet Moments of a Party Girl by Joe Meno (from "Demons in the Spring")
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Out of My Mind
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Resurrection of Wonder Woman by Eleanor Vincent (from "At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die")
Keep Going
Hiding in the Light