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From the press release:
The American Independent Writing Prizes for 2010 were awarded at the June 12 annual conference in Washington, DC, to Mary Collins, Heather Lynne Davis, Herta Feely, Peter Galuszka and Paula Whyman. The annual competition is open to all AIW members and recognizes outstanding freelance work.
Whyman won the short fiction prize for "Statute of Limitations” [March/April 2009, Bethesda Magazine], which skillfully explores the “tension between surrendering to self-interest and taking responsibility for the life [people] have created,” the judges said.
More specifically, this story is about bad parenting, bad drugs, and bad sex. And I'm grateful to Bethesda Magazine's fiction editor, Susan Coll, and publisher, Steve Hull, not only for publishing fiction in the magazine in the first place, but also for taking a risk with the magazine's content. Bethesda Magazine may very well be the only regional glossy that puts short fiction in every issue.
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