Passages North invites you to enter the 2006 Thomas Hruska Nonfiction Prize!


$1000 First Prize


Two honorable mentions


7500-word maximum


With guest judge Jean C. Florman of the University of Iowa, and author of Moments in Iowa History


Entry fee: $10 per story

Reading period for the Thomas Hruska Nonfiction Prize is October 15 until January 22, 2007


All entrants will receive contest issue.


Include a SASE for announcement of winners.


Make checks payable to Northern Michigan University.

Passages North is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our 2005 Thomas J. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction Prize.

Winner: Anne Panning, “Trailer Court: Rolling”

Finalist: Ryan Wilson, “Nation Building”

The work of the winner and finalist will be published in our Spring 2006 issue, and a copy of that issue will be sent to all those who submitted.  Our poetry and nonfiction contests are held once every two years.  Look for them again in the fall of 2006.  Thanks to all who entered.