Stoicheff Is Two-Time Contest Winner

Larry Wells, Dean Faulkner Wells, Peter Stoicheff, and Kathryn Warden

Peter Stoicheff's "A Rose for Hemingway" was selected as the winning entry in the sixth annual Faux Faulkner Contest, sponsored by American Way magazine, the University of Mississippi, and the Yoknapatawpha Press and its Faulkner Newsletter. Stoicheff, an English professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, also won the 1993 contest with "Astoundin' the Tourney," about an amazing game of bridge.

Stoicheff read his winning entry at Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak, on July 30, the opening day of the 1995 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. American Airlines, owner of American Way, provided Stoicheff and his wife, Kathryn Warden, transportation to Oxford. Other prizes included complimentary registration for the conference and complimentary accommodations at Holiday Inn of Oxford.

On hand for the contest announcement was Nelson Eddy of Nashville, Tennessee. His company, Jack Daniel Distillery, assisted with this year's buffet supper that took place at the home of Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Howorth Jr. following the program at Rowan Oak. Jack Daniel Distillery will become a Faux Faulkner sponsor in 1996.

Dean Faulkner Wells, copublisher of the Faulkner Newsletter with her husband, Larry Wells, coordinates the contest. Judges for the 1995 contest were authors Barry Hannah, George Plimpton, and Willie Morris.

The deadline for the seventh Faulkner Contest is February 1, 1996. To enter, contestants should send typed, double-spaced essays/short stories (500-word limit) to Faux Faulkner, P.O. Box 248, Oxford, MS 38655. For confirmation of receipt, enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard. By entering the competition, all contestants automatically release publication rights to their entries.

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