WINNERS of the 2009 BUFFALO YOUNG WRITERS COMPETITION:

GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
Caitlin McAneny, Ashes Of Emeralds

RUNNERS-UP:
Josh Boyle, Points For Moxy
Stefan Brundage, Courtney Gerou, Maria Pavlov, and Ashley Vizzini, In The Blink Of An Eye
Roy Golia, I'm On The Couch
Justin Mitchell Krall, Post-Horror
Jon Zelasko, James

RLTP would also like to recognize three excellent submissions that were unfortunately not qualified for consideration (but thanks for sharing your work!):
Carolyn Copeland, The Creaking Door
Jordan Gerow, Heist
Julia K. Johnstone, Acrophobia In The Stars

The WINNER, Ms. McAneny, received a check for $300 and a workshop production of her play on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010, at the Road Less Traveled Theater.

The RUNNERS-UP received twenty-five free tickets each to any Thursday night performance of RLTP's production of The Goat: Or, Who Is Sylvia?, by 2010 American Theatre Master Edward Albee, and a staged reading of their plays on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010, at the Road Less Traveled Theater.

RLTP thanks the many talented young writers who submitted plays, and encourages all of this winners and all those writers who did not win this year but are bound to be future winners to KEEP WRITING and to submit to the forthcoming 2010 BUFFALO YOUNG WRITERS Competition! Check back in Fall 2010 for submission info!

Jon Elston
Literary Director/Resident Playwright
Road Less Traveled Productions